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While there, Stalling proposed to Disney a series of "musical novelty" cartoons combining music and animation, which would become the genesis for the Silly Symphony series, and pitched an idea about skeletons dancing in a graveyard. Stalling would eventually join Disney's studio as staff composer. [1]
He also compared it to Walt Disney's The Skeleton Dance (which was also set in a cemetery) and felt Swing You Sinners! was superior. [7] [11] In 2012 Cracked hosted an article describing "5 Old Children's Cartoons Way Darker Than Most Horror Movies" and listed Swing You Sinners! at No. 1. [12]
In 1998, Disney included the song on their VHS tape Disney's Sing-Along Songs: Happy Haunting: Party at Disneyland! (which was released on DVD as Disney's Sing-Along Songs: Happy Haunting in 2006). They paired the song with the 1929 animated short film The Skeleton Dance by Ub Iwerks. [2]
The Skeleton Dance, directed by Walt Disney and animated by Ub Iwerks (the first Silly Symphony short from Disney) Blackmail, directed by Alfred Hitchcock (Hitchcock’s first sound film)
The movie's introduction, set to the song "This Is Halloween," traverses through a graveyard with ghostly shadows reflected on the tombstones.The first ghost appears to be pretty classically ...
Disney's "Hocus Pocus" is filled with hidden gems and fun background details that even the most loyal fans of the Halloween movie probably never saw. ... Old Burial Hill is an actual graveyard in ...
A year later, Clark made his debut as an animator for the first Silly Symphony short The Skeleton Dance (1929). He drew the scene of a skeleton playing on another skeleton's ribcage like a xylophone. [8] In 1930, Iwerks left Disney to form his namesake studio. Clark then became the official animator for Mickey Mouse. [11]
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] The Haunted House was Mickey's first cartoon with a horror theme and led the way to later films such as The Gorilla Mystery (1930) and The Mad Doctor (1933). [ 2 ]