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The Skeleton Dance, released in 1929, was the first in Walt Disney and Carl Stalling's Silly Symphonies series.
Summary
When night falls at a church cemetery, amidst howling dogs, hooting owls and fighting cats, four skeletons rise from their graves for macabre merriment. Dancing and playing music by using each other as instruments, the skeletons party until the rising of the sun, where they frantically rush back into their graves, forming a skeletal chimera to get back faster.
Legacy
Being the original and one of the most popular Silly Symphonies, the skeletons have been long associated with the macabre side of Disney. They reappeared later in the year in the Mickey Mouse short Haunted House and would go on to appear in House of Mouse and be given a visual nod in Disneyland Paris' Phantom Manor in the underground catacombs sequence. A level based on the short appears in Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two as well as the short itself being included as an extra feature.
Releases
Releases
- Disneyland, episode #2.11: "The Story of the Animated Drawing"
- Good Morning, Mickey, episode #79
- The Ink and Paint Club, episode #1.4: "Disney Firsts"
- The Ink and Paint Club, episode #1.55: "Oooh! Scary!"
Home video
- Walt Disney Cartoon Classics: Scary Tales (VHS/laserdisc)
- Walt Disney Treasures: Silly Symphonies (DVD)
- Walt Disney Treasures: The Adventures of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (DVD)
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: Diamond Edition (Blu-Ray)
Trivia
- The Skeleton Dance makes an appearance in Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two as one of the projector transition levels.
- Footage from this short was used in the Disney Sing Along Songs volume Happy Haunting: Party at Disneyland for the song "Spooky Scary Skeletons".
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