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[adventurelandia]

The Skeleton Dance (1929)

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[pelopides]

The Skeleton Dance, 1929 A Silly Symphony

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[motionpicturesource]

MOTIONPICTURESOURCE’S 31 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN

28/31 🎃👻 THE SKELETON DANCE (1929) dir. Walt Disney

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𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔖𝔨𝔢𝔩𝔢𝔱𝔬𝔫 𝔇𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔢 (յգշգ) 𝔭𝔯𝔬𝔡𝔲𝔠𝔢𝔡 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔡𝔦𝔯𝔢𝔠𝔱𝔢𝔡 𝔟𝔶 𝔚𝔞𝔩𝔱 𝔇𝔦𝔰𝔫𝔢𝔶 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔞𝔫𝔦𝔪𝔞𝔱𝔢𝔡 𝔟𝔶 𝔘𝔟 ℑ𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔨𝔰.

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[yoursghouly]

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[sonjackcarl]

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[graveyarddirt]

The Skeleton Dance is a cartoon from Silly Symphony by Disney via 1929! Check out the original here: youtube.com/watch?v=WN80Z2KZa-Y

* Free download: Skeleton Dance (Beats Antique Remix), by Beats Antique

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[frankenstein-ate-my-left-shoe]

BREAKING NEWS!!!!:

The Skeleton Dance (1929) is now on Disney+ in HD/restored quality!!

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The Skeleton Dance (1929)

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[transformedgirlspringbracket]

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art by SGTMADNESS

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[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔖𝔨𝔢𝔩𝔢𝔱𝔬𝔫 𝔇𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔢 (յգշգ) 𝔭𝔯𝔬𝔡𝔲𝔠𝔢𝔡 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔡𝔦𝔯𝔢𝔠𝔱𝔢𝔡 𝔟𝔶 𝔚𝔞𝔩𝔱 𝔇𝔦𝔰𝔫𝔢𝔶 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔞𝔫𝔦𝔪𝔞𝔱𝔢𝔡 𝔟𝔶 𝔘𝔟 ℑ𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔨𝔰.

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[nitrateglow]

Halloween 2023 marathon: 2-4

The Skeleton Dance (dir. Walt Disney, 1929)

It doesn't feel like spooky season without a screening of The Skeleton Dance. The debut of the Silly Symphonies series, it remains one of the most iconic Disney cartoons.

I'm doing a post about the Silly Symphonies for my Wordpress and watching several of them, it's clear most of the earliest ones were more set on being tone poems. With its gothic atmosphere and macabre sense of humor, The Skeleton Dance might be the most successful Silly Symphony in that regard, competing strongly with the more visually refined The Old Mill from 1937 for the GOAT Silly Symphony crown. Personally, I prefer The Skeleton Dance-- it's funny, creative, and creepy, with an energy that seems inherent to its "primitive" state as an early talkie. (That part where the skeleton quartet combine into a four-headed monstrosity is still kind of creepy, even as an adult.)

Swing You Sinners! (dir. Dave Fleishcer, 1930)

This bizarre cartoon from the dawn of the talkie era went viral a few years back. People freaked out over the macabre visuals and merciless content: a dog tries stealing a chicken, then ends up in a cemetery where he's terrorized by talking tombstones and shapeshifting ghouls swearing they'll "scatter your bones away" and torment him forever.

I know saying "this was made on drugs" is a descriptive cliche, but... that's the vibe of this thing. The Fleischer cartoons of the early 1930s could get surreal indeed and this one is among the most uninhibited with its horrific images and comic but despairing tone. If I had seen this as a kid, it would have given me nightmares and watching it creeps me out even now. It doesn't even end with the dog escaping-- he's swallowed up by a huge skull and then the cartoon hits you with its "the end" card. Damn!

Hell's Bells (dir. Ub Iwerks, 1929)

In many ways a companion piece to The Skeleton Dance, Hell's Bells is a Silly Symphony about a bunch of devils partying it up in hell before they turn on one another. I just love the atmosphere and dark humor in this as well. We also get some weird, weird moments, like when the devils milk fire from a demon cow-- a strange mix of early Disney barnyard humor and the infernal setting.

It's interesting to compare the two Disney cartoons with the Fleischer one, now that I think about it. The Disney ones have some dark content and threats of peril, but they end on a resolved note: dawn comes and the skeletons have to go home to their grave, and the chief devil is punished for picking on the smaller devils. But the Fleischer cartoon just ends with its protagonist being punished far beyond the proportion of his crime with no hope of redemption. And it ends so suddenly too, giving you no time to let that sink in until the end titles have vanished from sight.

All three of these cartoons are great. If you're short on time for an evening viewing of a horror movie after work during the spooky season, all of these are under 10 minutes and well worth the watch for bite-sized chills.

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