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For those unfamiliar, The Skeleton Dance was the first installment in Disney’s series of scored, animated shorts, Silly Symphonies. As the name implies, the series of 75 films combined ...
Many things entered the Public Domain on January 1, 2025, including Disney’s first “Silly Symphonies” piece, the “Skeleton Dance.” Now, everyone can use it. 12 other Mickey shorts are ...
For 2025, the most notable include Disney titles such as Silly Symphony short The Skeleton Dance and Mickey Mouse shorts such as “Karnival Kid,” the first to feature his voice. Either of those ...
Video of silly symphony - the skeleton dance 1929 disney short Today's bone-us (you see what I did there?): If you can't rip yourself off, who can you rip off? Iwerks revisited the graveyard in ...
Both the first Mickey Mouse sound film, “Steamboat Willie” (1928), and the first Silly Symphony, “The Skeleton Dance” (1929), feature dancing that’s musically vivid, funny, pointed ...
shudders* ‘The Skeleton Dance’ comes from a 1929 Disney short film called Silly Symphony, and it’s a perfect example of classical music at its most creative. The light-hearted music scores the dancing ...