PPP1 Research: The Skeleton Dance

After watching the first Disney animation this interested me to look further into early Disney animation, to which I found a short piece about dancing skeletons that was made in 1929 entitled ‘The Skeleton Dance’. This depicts 4 skeletons that dance in the graveyard creating music using just there bones; a bit like the way in which Steamboat Willie does. This again is a genius piece of animation that is very humorous at the same time as being a very exaggerated and dark themed.

Due to the fact that this animation was created in 1929, this animation is very dated, but it does still look good and could be watched for many years still due to the appropriate content of it, and also because it is one of Disney's earliest works. The animation follows follows these skeletons as they dance there way around the graveyard, playing music on themselves and other things around them. This is a cleaver way to use sound in the animation, as instead of creating a backtrack to add in the actual animation is them creating there own music; the main sounds being them hitting there bones to create notes similar to that which is created on a xylophone.