Danse macabre (1922)

8m
Running Time

March 8, 1922
Release Date

Danse macabre (1922)

8m
Running Time

March 8, 1922
Release Date

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Plot.

The Black Death is ravaging Spain. As Camille Saint-Saëns's "Danse Macabre" plays on the soundtrack, a mix of animation and acted scenes tells the story of Youth and Love meeting one night. They dance, embrace, and kiss. As the night wears on, exuberant Death, a skeletal figure with a violin, pursues the couple. They try to elude him. Eventually, Love swoons. Youth is powerless to protect her. Is she doomed?

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Release Date
March 8, 1922

Status
Released

Running Time
8m

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silent film
plague

Wiki.

Danse Macabre is a 1922 American short film directed by Dudley Murphy and conceived by ballet dancer Adolph Bolm, who also stars in the film. Set to Danse macabre, a symphonic poem for orchestra by French composer Camille Saint-Saëns, the film depicts Youth (Bolm) and Love (Ruth Page) attempting to evade the grasp of Death (Olin Howland) in Spain during the Black Plague. The film is one of a series of twelve "visual symphonies" set to classical music by Murphy, and was advertised as the first dance film to be synchronized with a sound score.

Danse Macabre was filmed entirely on a studio set, with Francis Bruguière providing the lighting. In addition to the central dance routine, the film features animation by commercial animation house F. A. A. Dahme, as well as superimposition effects.

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