The Skeleton Dance (1929)
August 29, 1929Release Date
The Skeleton Dance (1929)
August 29, 1929Release Date
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Release DateAugust 29, 1929
StatusReleased
Running Time5m
Content RatingNR
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The Skeleton Dance is a 1929 Silly Symphony animated short subject with a comedy horror theme. It was produced and directed by Walt Disney and animated by Ub Iwerks. In the film, four human skeletons dance and make music around a spooky graveyard—a modern film example of medieval European "danse macabre" imagery. It is the first entry in the Silly Symphony series. In 1993, to coincide with the opening of Mickey's Toontown in Disneyland, a shortened cover of the cartoon's music was arranged to be featured in the land's background ambiance. The short's copyright was renewed in 1957, and as a published work from 1929, it entered the US public domain on January 1, 2025.
In 1937, Columbia Pictures released the Color Rhapsody short Skeleton Frolic, a color remake of The Skeleton Dance also written and directed by Iwerks.