The Skeleton Dance
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The Skeleton Dance is a 1929 American animated comedy horror short film directed and produced by Walt Disney. It is the first installment in the Silly Symphony series. In the film, reanimated human sk
The Skeleton Dance theatrical release poster
Iwerks was inspired by the frontispiece to Thomas Rowlandson's 1816 edition of satirical etchings, The English Dance of Death.
The soundtrack was released on vinyl in 2016.
Ub Iwerks
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Ub Iwerks was an American animator, cartoonist, film director, film producer, character designer, inventor, and special effects technician. He was widely known for his early work with Walt Disney Prod
The Skeleton Dance
…dancing in a graveyard. Stalling would eventually join Disney's studio as a staff composer. Animation on The Skeleton Dance began in January 1929, with Ub Iwerks animating the majority of the film in almost six weeks. Iwerks pulled inspiration for the skeletons from "pictures drawn by the English cartoonist…
Iwerks animating his most famous co-creation, Mickey Mouse c. 1929
The title card for Trolley Troubles (1927), animated by Iwerks
Sinbad the Sailor, a 1935 ComiColor cartoon