Silly Symphony (The Skeleton Dance): 1929 - Disney

Silly Symphony (The Skeleton Dance):

1929 - Disney

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WN80Z2KZa--‐Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h03QBNVwX8Q
 
This is another short black and white animated film released by Disney shortly after Steamboat Willie.

Similarly to Steamboat Willie, the animations are quite basic, and a musical accompaniment is present to enhance the mood of the animation. However, this short has a very different theme, not of comedy but of theatrical horror, and so the music is more experimental and in a minor key.

Repeated and mirrored shapes, characters and movements are used, as to speed up the creation of the animation, yet still work well with the music.

When the skeletons are dancing, the same background artworks are used throughout, so that the artists do not have to spend time painting the same background over and over again; the different stages of animated movements are printed onto the identical repeated backgrounds.

Although this animation had a more dark theme to it, the actions and dances of the skeletons provided comedy to the animation also.