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Stalling would eventually join Disney's studio as staff composer. [1] Art work featuring skeletons by Thomas Rowlandson that might have inspired Ub Iwerks' design of the skeletons in the short. Animation on The Skeleton Dance began in January 1929, with Ub Iwerks animating the majority of the film in almost six weeks. [1]
Original – 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.
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Works from 1929 and sound recordings from 1924 are now open to all in the U.S. ... directed by Robert Florey and Joseph Santley"The Skeleton Dance," Disney's first "Silly Symphony" short, directed ...
It was directed by Walt Disney who also provided the voice of Mickey; Ub Iwerks was the primary animator and Carl Stalling wrote the original music. The Haunted House borrows animation from Disney's first Silly Symphony cartoon, The Skeleton Dance, which was released earlier in 1929, although most of the sequence is new. [2]
1929 The first Silly Symphony cartoon titled The Skeleton Dance is released on August 22. [4] On December 16, The Walt Disney Studio is renamed to Walt Disney Productions, Ltd. Three other companies are also renamed to Walt Disney Enterprises, Disney Film Recording Company, and Liled Realty and Investment Company.
Ubbe Ert Iwerks (March 24, 1901 – July 7, 1971), known as Ub Iwerks (/ ˈ ʌ b ˈ aɪ w ɜːr k s / UB EYE-wurks), was an American animator, cartoonist, character designer, inventor, and special effects technician, known for his work with Walt Disney Animation Studios in general, and for having worked on the development of the design of the character of Mickey Mouse, among others.
Later that year, Disney released Mickey's first sound cartoon, Steamboat Willie, which was an enormous success; Plane Crazy was officially released as a sound cartoon on March 17, 1929. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was the fourth Mickey film to be given a wide release after Steamboat Willie , The Gallopin' Gaucho and The Barn Dance (1929).