Spooky season is here! What better way to kick things off than with The Skeleton Dance from 1929. The Skeleton Dance was the very first of Walt Disney’s Silly Symphonies. Following the success of Mickey Mouse, Walt wanted to experiment with a series of shorts built around music, rather than a single recurring character. Most of the animation was done by Ub Iwerks. The short premiered at the Carthay Circle Theatre in Los Angeles and was an immediate hit. The Silly Symphonies proved so popular tha

After the success of Mickey Mouse, Walt Disney wanted to try something new and created the Silly Symphonies. The first in the series, The Skeleton Dance, was released in August 1929. Much of the animation was done by Ub Iwerks. After leaving Disney to start his own studio, Ub directed a short in 1937 called Skeleton Frolic, which borrowed heavily from The Skeleton Dance. | Disney History Channel