@anderstermansen130 It was released in August of 29, so possibly it began production in late 1928 but most likely early 29 given how successful Steamboat Willie was in November of the previous year. It's not like Disney wanted to rush an non Mickey short into production at once after Steamboat Willie proved to be an hit.
TraceurHarryG1 it really is he said I was 5 when it came out went to go see it with your great grandma. It was a great cartoon he said for back in the day. Also after they got home he’d do the dance that the skeletons did with their jaw. My great grandmas parents laughed really hard.
Cole Stevens me and your great uncle have something in common then, for I love this cartoon and this cartoon got me obsessed with the history of animation. Can I hear more about him? He sounds like an interesting fellow
Probably because of the old animation style, even if you never saw this as a kid, you may have watched something from the same era, and that's why you're nostalgic about it
Nah, I saw this as a kid before, freaked me out ALWAYS. I had this VHS cassette tape that had this little diddy on it. I would fast forward through it EVERTIM.
I absolutely still cherish this antimated cartoon.When I was a little girl 60 plus years ago. I'd sit on the floor ,in front of a big 4 legged tube TV that had rabbit ears and wait for this every morning . This brings back forgotten memories. Thankyou so much
Хрень полная , но когда смотрели с другом лет 35 назад валялись на полу от смеха 😂 Посмотри старые Советские мультфильмы и сравни чему учат детей Советские мультфильмы и Западные? 🤔
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In 1929, Joseph Barbera saw Walt Disney's new cartoon Skeleton Dance at the cinema and was so impressed by this picture that he decided to become a cartoonist. And in the future, together with William Hanna, he created one of the best cartoon films of all time "Tom and Jerry"
I can’t believe I’m almost 56 years old and have never seen this in its entirety until now. I’ve seen bits and pieces of it in music videos and gifs/memes, but never the entire cartoon. This is truly a masterpiece!
I don’t think they didn’t knew, animating skeletons is hell. This cartoon has much more effort than you think I am not animator but i have knowledge in animation
In the 80's, this would come on Disney every Halloween morning at about 5-6AM. I'd get up early in anticipation. It was the kick off to Halloween for me. Great memories. 🎃
This is so cool to me. I grew up in the 90's, and it was similar. Disney channel would really go all out and EVERY single promo, commercial, episode, made it clear that IT WAS HALLOWEEN! I used to feel the electricity in the air. Most kids don't even have cable or tv anymore, there's no "season" feelings.. I really miss that. It feels like Halloween came and went this year :( My favorite holiday. Gonna have to make next twice as spooky and go all out. If Halloween spirit doesn't come to you, create and spread it! Now I'm gonna go watch a Haunted Mansion type movie to get the spooks!
@@ZeranZeran yeah its sad it fizzles out a bit, not just halloween but all holidays. Especially the once aimed at younger generations for some reason. Either way, we make it what it is. So even if the rest dont celebrate it, might as well make it the best we can ourself.
I couldn't agree more. I always enjoyed this one in particular, because it signified that Spooky Season started👻. Disney used to play cartoons or movies on Sunday morning & Sunday evening, on Channel 20 here in Michigan. This happened to be the exact cartoon they'd always play, the 3rd Sunday in September to kick off Spooky Season. This tradition also let me know it was time to start making my Costume, I wish I had pictures of them😍Oh wow, I've taken enough of your time already, sorry for the lengthy comment. Happy early Halloween Ms. Katey 🎃
YES... I looked forward to this every September. WOW, you just unlocked some core childhood memories for me. This cartoon always signified the beginning of Halloween, loved that they didn't wait 'til October to play it (3rd Sunday in September) Disney always played a movie or cartoon on Sunday Morning and evening, from their vaults and I wish they still did. Happy Halloween🎃
I really admire these old cartoon. no computers to help aid in making them, no digital cameras or scanners. all hand drawn on cels and backgrounds. and very experimental considering animation was still relatively new then.
The visuals are amazing for the time, but the sound direction was also fairly advanced! Every sound needed to be made by a person in the orchestra/band. No computers or synthesizers back then for that either!
Disney's genius was in perfecting animated film techniques. Until the advent of rotoscoping and computer assisted animation his methods were the gold standard and used by all the studios.
I am very impressed with how well this is animated for back then. Animation was still very new, and everything had to be hand-drawn, while these days we can use puppets and 3d models to move around. I love these old cartoons, they always inspire me to try harder to reach my dreams of becoming an animator.
@@Monsterskullz Same, but after failing Art in High School and doing a couple of unrelated Uni classes. I've decided to just teach myself to draw and find my artstyle. Hope your endevours go well!
Quick tip, you guys! You can use the dot and the coma keys on your keyboard to go frame by frame while the video is paused... Helps A LOT to analyze the movement!
despite seeing gifs of this pop up everywhere every halloween, i’d never actually seen it before. so, i threw this on at midnight, just now, in my pitch dark room where the only light from a few candles, underneath my cozy blankets, this made for a truly great little 5 & and a half minutes. almost surpassed any exceptions i had of it, and perfect to watch at the start of october to get me in the mood. what a charming piece of animation
all the sounds we're hearing were done manually with tools instead of generated from a computer, which is amazing to think about. the time and energy that went into this. groundbreaking for its era, i'm sure
Shiny Kingdra With osteoporosis, you can seem healthy until you manage to fall down and can't get back up, and then immediately realize that you don't have LifeAlert.
I'll say this one was pretty great, however most of the old disney stuff cannot have the same said about it. Pretty much any of the animated movies from the 1940s will have you bored out of your mind or laughing because what happened was just so absurd.
Probably because you understand all the hard work that was put into these animations now that you are older. The art, the music and everything else took time and loads of effort.
Imagine how scary it must have been for first time viewers at 1:44 & 4:07. They hadn't really seen anything like that before...love watching these old cartoons with that mindset.
I remember watching this as a kid and being scared when the first skeleton sat there snapping its jaw and lunges at the camera. Now as a 39 year old, I am impressed with the animation
I have searched for this cartoon for the past 20 years. It was mine and my siblings favorite cartoon when we were little in the 70's and 80's. I tried to figure out the name of this one but could remember or find it until now. My girls are grown now but I always wanted it for them because I know they would have loved it. I never realized this one was so old even back then.
Modern "Disney" would never do anything good or creative now days. Walt Disney himself would be ashamed at was has become of Disney in the 21st century.
I like the original audio alot better than that song. That's just me tho. One reason I like this better: The music and sound effects actually match the animation! I like hearing the xylophone playing, the skull hopping sounds, etc. The other song, it just looks really confusing when the skeleton starts playing the other skeleton like a xylophone, and the sound doesn't even change. I feel like they could have edited it better somehow, to not include those parts, but maybe even add other skeleton cartoons and stuff.
The great depression never really ended.. one day the global financial system was strong again, but the depression turned from a financial one into an emotional one. How many Millions of People per state of the earth are captured in depressions, feelings of lost hope and the absence of spiritual or physical power, because they learned, that all they will build, will be crushed down again one day. The jews in warsaw felt this depression in their hearts, before they started their last uprising against the nazis. Many days are behind me, and many before me, where I hate myself for being german. I am proud to be german because of Goethe, Schiller, Lessing and many other cultural pearls. But I hate to be german because of WW2 and the holocaust and the infernal and reasonless hate against the jews. Life was never, what it seems. As children we believe, everything is good and fine, but soon we become drawn into the madness and the wickedness of adult mankind. We become, what our forefathers were. Evil people, who steal, lie, betray our wifes and husbands, kill and deny the idea of a last judgement, where we all once will have to pay for everything bad, that we've done. Under this points of view, not one single human is "good". Blessed are those, who were never born, who were never even created through pregnancy and aborted - blessed are those, who never came in touch with the physical meaning of life and stayed always, being only spiritual alive. Where spiritual life is much more intensive as physical existence could ever be. Life can be a true curse, sometimes.
I love the way everything moves in such an eerie, unnatural way, from the way the bell rings, the way the bird calls, the way the dog howls and of course the skeletons dancing, it really does set the mood.
When I worked in a Kindergarten in Beijing I'd play this at Halloween and the kids would be laughing so much they'd be in tears. Not many cartoons are able to pull that off, let alone after 100 years!
Anyone here knows those dancing or waving classic cartoons(shadows in shape of monsters) used in edits and memes, they have a certain music added, i really want to know their name
Exactly, when you don't push for realism, your creation becomes impervious to new tech developments. For example, a realistic game from the early 2000s is laughable in terms of "hyper realistic graphics", but a game like darkest dungeon will never have "outdated graphics"
I love this silly symphonies-series. They made 75 episodes and i want to see them all. I think they are the best creative work from its time. The creaters really pushed their limits.
Computer assisted animation doesn’t take less skill, it’s just less time consuming and makes things less stressful. I’m not saying I don’t prefer the way traditional handmade animation looks, with all the small human inconsistencies though.
@@peanutbutter6720 true people think computer does all the shit, it doesnt I do digital art, when i say this to some one they say it isnt real art im like bruh
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All the Silly symphonies and Fantasia are probably my favorite things about Disney. Such classics. Such masterpieces. And proof that you don’t need speaking/singing to make a great film! Plus the animation is adorable. I miss it.
yea, everyone worked at this cartoon isn't alive today but this is their legacy, so i think they.... maybe, are immortal, thank you were ever they are .
@@Truth72500 What are you talking about? Lol we're talking about the people who worked on this, and if they are still alive, not how many there are in hell.
Imagine watching this back In the 1920. Now days we have so much modern entertainment that we are desensitised but imagine living in an era when animations are still experimental and suddenly a skeleton pops up on your screen and starts doing spooky stuff with other skeletons. And then the skeletons combine and turn into a giant skele-monster. Seeing that must have been a scary experience even for an adult
Not only that, but to see any sort of movie must have been a special occasion. You either had to go out to the theater and pay for a seat and just hope whatever cartoon they played was decent.
Passion in live action has diminished. Their animation department is still top notch. The only thing missing is 2D animation, even if it's not good for the environment
Lisa: "Dad it is Xenophobia. Xylophobia would be someone with fear of xylophones". Homer: "But I am afraid of xylophones. It is the music that plays when the skeletons are dancing".
The fact that this exists in the first place is just the most amazing thing ever. Sadly all who worked on this have probably already joined the skeletons themselves.
its crazy that this short film is almost 100 years old. it came out in 1929, and the fact they had this kinda tech back then to make it so smooth and detailed is crazy.
My mom would rent Creepy Classics on Friday nights for me when I was a kid and this always made me squeal with joy. I remember exactly how thrilled I was!! She got a kick out of how excited I was ❤
He may have been a Nazi sympathizer and, at the very least, aligned himself with anti-Semites. One month after Kristallnacht, Disney personally welcomed Nazi director Leni Riefenstahl to his studios.
+skellington15 I never knew what the original version of "Spooky Scary Skeletons" animation came from until now. I just, never knew it was from Disney...
+The RedCross Logic Ohhhhhhhhh, I never saw this until like, when I posted the comment. Still, I found it weird but, it's what Disney had in their minds back then. Perfect Halloween video. .3.
From what I have studied in history of animation, the composers at Dinsey wanted more recognition, so the studio decided to do a series of shorts called silly symphonies, where te musics created amazing songs and the animators created shorts that followed that music. That's why they don't usually make a lot of sense stroy-wise, they only made them to showcase what animators and composers in the studio could do. The same principle was used to make the movie Fantasia (even though they didn't use original songs, they took famous classical ones).
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God the fact that this is nearly 100 years old mind boggles me. The animation holds up tremendously nearly a century later
just 8 more years and then we'll see if this video is still up
@Jonathan isliko 100 - 3 = 97. They said ALMOST 100 years old, not is.
tbh disney was so good back in the 1930s
@Jonathan isliko hypocrite
@Jonathan isliko then mute replies
In 10 years, this will be 100 years old
I will see u guys in 2029!
fantastic
Whoooooo ta nOIcE
JaDangerz and it’s still a meme
thank
Fun fact: This film was actually banned in Denmark when it came out because it was too graphic.
Lol
They couldn't handle the power of *bone*
Webzter lmao😂
Frenite that fact gave me a bone-r
I can see that being true. It certainly wasn't for children, then, either.
I don’t think people understand how groundbreaking this was for 1929
Agreed. This was revolutionary and took countless hours just to do a short cartoon
it was not made in 1929
@@anderstermansen130XXIX
@anderstermansen130 It was released in August of 29, so possibly it began production in late 1928 but most likely early 29 given how successful Steamboat Willie was in November of the previous year. It's not like Disney wanted to rush an non Mickey short into production at once after Steamboat Willie proved to be an hit.
@@anderstermansen130 When was it made?
My great uncle cecil is 94 he saw this when he was 5 years old he went with my great grandma. He told me this was his favorite Disney one.
Cole Stevens must be cool to think that your great uncle saw this in the cinemas when it first came out almost 90 years ago
TraceurHarryG1 it really is he said I was 5 when it came out went to go see it with your great grandma. It was a great cartoon he said for back in the day. Also after they got home he’d do the dance that the skeletons did with their jaw. My great grandmas parents laughed really hard.
Cole Stevens me and your great uncle have something in common then, for I love this cartoon and this cartoon got me obsessed with the history of animation. Can I hear more about him? He sounds like an interesting fellow
nICE...
that's actually epic
*Fact: Not a single person involved in the making, distribution and promotion of this animated film is alive as of 2020
@@makinbacongreasyagain968 you must not be fun at parties
damn
F in the chat for the boys that made this masterpiece
Spooky
They are dancing togheter in cemetery now
Why does this feel so nostalgic even tho I never watched it as a kid?
Probably because of the old animation style, even if you never saw this as a kid, you may have watched something from the same era, and that's why you're nostalgic about it
Yeah it feels like that
Old Mickey Mouse movies were like this. That’s why it’s familiar.
Nah, I saw this as a kid before, freaked me out ALWAYS. I had this VHS cassette tape that had this little diddy on it. I would fast forward through it EVERTIM.
I am your 300th like.
I absolutely still cherish this antimated cartoon.When I was a little girl 60 plus years ago. I'd sit on the floor ,in front of a big 4 legged tube TV that had rabbit ears and wait for this every morning . This brings back forgotten memories. Thankyou so much
Shi woulda terrified me as a kid
So beautiful!!! The animation is perfect.🖤
If this played I would've cried
Me too. LOL
Turned 70 this year, saw this when I was very young and it scared the hell out of me at the time. Great to see it again 👍
This animation is SOOOO satisfying to me. It’s very detailed, atmospheric, and the contrasts are on point.
Хрень полная , но когда смотрели с другом лет 35 назад валялись на полу от смеха 😂 Посмотри старые Советские мультфильмы и сравни чему учат детей Советские мультфильмы и Западные? 🤔
This Was Extremely Funny 🤣🤣🤣
@@ВикторДанилин-т7в Couldn’t bare to watch the Soviet cartoon for a millisecond
@@ВикторДанилин-т7в че ты высрал? 1929, а это год в который вышел этот мульт, наши вообще ничего не могли сделать
Check out Fleischer studios. They should be above Disney.
Today's Disney is pig shit.
The disturbingly dark lightheartedness of coming up with this as animation pioneers, when you had no one to model after, is fascinating.
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Yeah I'm like "this is silly", then a skeleton eats the "camera". Pretty spooky for those days and still pretty cool.
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Seeing as how goofy looking the skeletons are i think they just used their imagination
In 1929, Joseph Barbera saw Walt Disney's new cartoon Skeleton Dance at the cinema and was so impressed by this picture that he decided to become a cartoonist. And in the future, together with William Hanna, he created one of the best cartoon films of all time "Tom and Jerry"
So if it wasn’t for skeleton dance we wouldn’t have Tom and Jerry
That’s pretty wild to think about
Really fascinating!
Ayo
Egg 🥚
I can’t believe I’m almost 56 years old and have never seen this in its entirety until now. I’ve seen bits and pieces of it in music videos and gifs/memes, but never the entire cartoon. This is truly a masterpiece!
The animators didn’t know they were making a masterpiece
I don’t think they didn’t knew, animating skeletons is hell. This cartoon has much more effort than you think
I am not animator but i have knowledge in animation
It is a masterpiece to be honest
Of another century
They had so much fun it was hard to realize they were making a masterpiece.
I ruined your 666 likes. Now the devil is no longer among you
I sure miss the time when Disney wasn't afraid to do this sort of macabre animation. It was so much fun to watch.
You must be a 100 year old.
@@Untayza You must be a 5 year old
You were there?
@@muuid1sk You must be a 5 year old too
You mean they used to do something before grooming kids with their woke, Leftist ideology?
Fun fact: The people who animated this are now the spooky scary skeletons
@Just some guy who loves anime Okay I was with you until the India part. Dont be racist.
@105 years ago no matter if you're talking about most of indians or other countries, you still assumed that most indians copy things. That's racist.
@105 years ago okay, fine, keep telling yourself that. Fine with me
@105 years ago this convo, has ended.
@Gabe Borksita ok so now India has maded vaccine ,can you please tell me from whom he had copied that ?
If there's one thing that unites all the classic Disney cartoons, it's forcibly using animals as an instrument.
If that's a concern, you're REALLY not gonna like what bows, strings and inlay are made of.
@@Mlise007 it wasn't really a concern, just an observation
“Disney eat your heart out”
-Garfield
In the 80's, this would come on Disney every Halloween morning at about 5-6AM. I'd get up early in anticipation. It was the kick off to Halloween for me. Great memories. 🎃
Same here!
It always came on at night when I was growing up
Interesting
This is so cool to me. I grew up in the 90's, and it was similar. Disney channel would really go all out and EVERY single promo, commercial, episode, made it clear that IT WAS HALLOWEEN! I used to feel the electricity in the air. Most kids don't even have cable or tv anymore, there's no "season" feelings.. I really miss that. It feels like Halloween came and went this year :( My favorite holiday.
Gonna have to make next twice as spooky and go all out. If Halloween spirit doesn't come to you, create and spread it! Now I'm gonna go watch a Haunted Mansion type movie to get the spooks!
@@ZeranZeran yeah its sad it fizzles out a bit, not just halloween but all holidays. Especially the once aimed at younger generations for some reason.
Either way, we make it what it is. So even if the rest dont celebrate it, might as well make it the best we can ourself.
*if you’re watching this, you have a pretty good taste in cartoons*
Old cartoons are the best!
we are men of culture
I enjoy old 1920s-50s cartoons, they have a different vibe that is always fun to see.
Gee wiz golly gee! Thanks a bunch pally! (Dances in a rubber hose style)
@@VOMITQUEEN Facts
It’s that time of year, boys.
Yas
SPOOKY SZN 2020
Yes.
Yes, welcome to spooktobre
Spooky time
I watched this every Halloween as a kid!!! I still love it!!! I wish Disney still played it.. 🎃🪦⚰️👻☠️🦴💀
I couldn't agree more. I always enjoyed this one in particular, because it signified that Spooky Season started👻. Disney used to play cartoons or movies on Sunday morning & Sunday evening, on Channel 20 here in Michigan. This happened to be the exact cartoon they'd always play, the 3rd Sunday in September to kick off Spooky Season. This tradition also let me know it was time to start making my Costume, I wish I had pictures of them😍Oh wow, I've taken enough of your time already, sorry for the lengthy comment. Happy early Halloween Ms. Katey 🎃
YES... I looked forward to this every September. WOW, you just unlocked some core childhood memories for me. This cartoon always signified the beginning of Halloween, loved that they didn't wait 'til October to play it (3rd Sunday in September) Disney always played a movie or cartoon on Sunday Morning and evening, from their vaults and I wish they still did. Happy Halloween🎃
I really admire these old cartoon. no computers to help aid in making them, no digital cameras or scanners. all hand drawn on cels and backgrounds. and very experimental considering animation was still relatively new then.
The funny thing is the animators here don't even knew how to draw a skeleton. Everything they learn is from experience
Yup.
I used to watch these all the time but they stopped showing them
The visuals are amazing for the time, but the sound direction was also fairly advanced! Every sound needed to be made by a person in the orchestra/band. No computers or synthesizers back then for that either!
Disney's genius was in perfecting animated film techniques. Until the advent of rotoscoping and computer assisted animation his methods were the gold standard and used by all the studios.
It's honestly kinda weird seeing the real version after having only seen the version with spooky scary skeletons as the background track
Right
Yh
I have only watched this HEHEHEEHH
I first saw this animation as the opening sequence of “Disney’s Halloween Treat” - which, honestly, feels much spoopier.
Fuck that version... Lol
I am very impressed with how well this is animated for back then. Animation was still very new, and everything had to be hand-drawn, while these days we can use puppets and 3d models to move around. I love these old cartoons, they always inspire me to try harder to reach my dreams of becoming an animator.
Same. i don't know how to draw, so i'm taking an art class so i can animate and draw well at the same time. but i think i'm gonna do horrible....
@@Monsterskullz Same, but after failing Art in High School and doing a couple of unrelated Uni classes. I've decided to just teach myself to draw and find my artstyle.
Hope your endevours go well!
Quick tip, you guys! You can use the dot and the coma keys on your keyboard to go frame by frame while the video is paused... Helps A LOT to analyze the movement!
despite seeing gifs of this pop up everywhere every halloween, i’d never actually seen it before. so, i threw this on at midnight, just now, in my pitch dark room where the only light from a few candles, underneath my cozy blankets, this made for a truly great little 5 & and a half minutes. almost surpassed any exceptions i had of it, and perfect to watch at the start of october to get me in the mood. what a charming piece of animation
Released in August 1929, this film is going to be 100 years old by the start of 2030. Truly a phenomenal feat.
Sadly, the people who did this is not with us anymore...
@@wilymoto6501 they are the skeletons now
@@sonicfanboy3375 so true
It came out the same year/month as my great uncle was born (still alive and doing well too). I loved it as a kid and still do.
Imagine you’ve only heard about the phenomenon of moving pictures, but now you are seeing it for the first time. It must have been amazing!
@drunknmaster2309 The vast majority of the worlds population had never seen one, though.
Would have scared the shit out of me
When the G falls off the Graveyard sign:
GOLD 🤣🤣
When the g falls of the grapefruit
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@Xavier Sanchez oh hell naw brother is right
R A V E Y A R D
all the sounds we're hearing were done manually with tools instead of generated from a computer, which is amazing to think about. the time and energy that went into this. groundbreaking for its era, i'm sure
Those skeletons should consider getting calcium supplements. Having bones that bendy can't be good.
Yes a Smart Person!
zchen27 i don't know they seem pretty healthy to me
Shiny Kingdra With osteoporosis, you can seem healthy until you manage to fall down and can't get back up, and then immediately realize that you don't have LifeAlert.
zchen27 they seem happy
yeah
Honestly these cartoons entertain much more than many movies from today.
Entertainment is subjective
@@gracewisnosky6903 no
So true
AGREE
I'll say this one was pretty great, however most of the old disney stuff cannot have the same said about it. Pretty much any of the animated movies from the 1940s will have you bored out of your mind or laughing because what happened was just so absurd.
How come I enjoy this way more as a 21-year-old than I ever did as a kid?
Probably because you understand all the hard work that was put into these animations now that you are older. The art, the music and everything else took time and loads of effort.
+Your Consciousness reading this comment is funny course of your username
+Dminislord because
because in the world of people turning I ti bad ass with just there sword and giant mechanical robots.dancing skeleton are just meh
+Downpour exactly
Next year this’ll be public domain material
I was about 10 when I saw this for the first time and it scared me half to death!
Today, I'm 63 and it has the same effect.
BRILLIANT!
So you watched in the late 60s-early 70s. Also how did you watch this cartoon back then?
Cappin
@@nullname0 bruh this made in 1929
@@nullname0 if it was made more recently wouldn’t it be in color?
@@teamcosmo he was ten when he saw it and now he is 63
1929 wasn't 53 years ago dumbutt
Imagine how scary it must have been for first time viewers at 1:44 & 4:07. They hadn't really seen anything like that before...love watching these old cartoons with that mindset.
Hah! You named the exact two moments I was thinking would make good animated gifs!
I ain’t sleeping tonight
good observation
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They were people in the '70s not troglodites
I remember watching this as a kid and being scared when the first skeleton sat there snapping its jaw and lunges at the camera.
Now as a 39 year old, I am impressed with the animation
That animation is stellar and way ahead of its time! A marvel that this was already being done almost 100 years ago!!
@@mikebernardino534
Yep!
Everyone was scared and I'm scared even now! (BTW I wasn't born in 1929 but my grandad was born In 1938)
Trick or Treat
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I have searched for this cartoon for the past 20 years. It was mine and my siblings favorite cartoon when we were little in the 70's and 80's. I tried to figure out the name of this one but could remember or find it until now. My girls are grown now but I always wanted it for them because I know they would have loved it. I never realized this one was so old even back then.
I wanna see Disney do more gothic stuff like this.
I would suggest checking out "The Mad Doctor". It was released around the same time as this.
@@sadem1045 MAD Doctor was made 3 years later.
Nowadays it's just remakes and shitty superhero movies
Disney wont make things like this anymore. Our society wont really allow this sort of stuff nowadays, which sucks
Modern "Disney" would never do anything good or creative now days. Walt Disney himself would be ashamed at was has become of Disney in the 21st century.
Much as I love the "spooky scary skeletons" *song* I'm glad there's at least the original masterpiece available to watch unspoiled
I like the original audio alot better than that song. That's just me tho.
One reason I like this better: The music and sound effects actually match the animation! I like hearing the xylophone playing, the skull hopping sounds, etc.
The other song, it just looks really confusing when the skeleton starts playing the other skeleton like a xylophone, and the sound doesn't even change.
I feel like they could have edited it better somehow, to not include those parts, but maybe even add other skeleton cartoons and stuff.
Everyone that worked on this must be skeletons now.
Cool and true!
from which year is that short
The Skeleton Dance was released in 1929.
MZL so they're probably dead. Not many people make it past 70-80
Yes, it is very probable that they are. I was originally replying to Alex x bg, who asked when was the short film made.
Fun Fact: The Audio at the Beginning and End if this Short is Reused from the Banned Mickey Short, 'The Mad Doctor'.
Plus that short technically is in the public domain.
Wasnt the mad doctor 4 years after this
@charizardoreo Yes but unlike this short the copyright for that one wasn't renewed.
Wow this was released 22 August 1929 - only days before stocks began to drop and weeks before the true start of the Great Depression.
cchdz คุ
The great depression never really ended.. one day the global financial system was strong again, but the depression turned from a financial one into an emotional one. How many Millions of People per state of the earth are captured in depressions, feelings of lost hope and the absence of spiritual or physical power, because they learned, that all they will build, will be crushed down again one day.
The jews in warsaw felt this depression in their hearts, before they started their last uprising against the nazis. Many days are behind me, and many before me, where I hate myself for being german.
I am proud to be german because of Goethe, Schiller, Lessing and many other cultural pearls. But I hate to be german because of WW2 and the holocaust and the infernal and reasonless hate against the jews.
Life was never, what it seems. As children we believe, everything is good and fine, but soon we become drawn into the madness and the wickedness of adult mankind. We become, what our forefathers were. Evil people, who steal, lie, betray our wifes and husbands, kill and deny the idea of a last judgement, where we all once will have to pay for everything bad, that we've done.
Under this points of view, not one single human is "good". Blessed are those, who were never born, who were never even created through pregnancy and aborted - blessed are those, who never came in touch with the physical meaning of life and stayed always, being only spiritual alive. Where spiritual life is much more intensive as physical existence could ever be.
Life can be a true curse, sometimes.
their stock got sp00ked
That's my birthday (completely encores sad part)
The skeletons knew...
This should be Disney's next live-action remake.
Hell yes. I’d watch that
Yup
the casting better be inclusive
You mean DEAD-action?
@@spaceenjoyer8304 Touche
This shows the real meaning of cartoon which is just imagination and enjoyment
No , cartoon is a bunch of drawings that look like they're moving , don't try to gatekeep.
Eric Larsen not being born , duh ? Also how is that relevant ?
Eric Larsen how did you come to that conclusion anyway.
@@NaiefThegoony r/iamverysmart
Andrey V. Vieira r/ihavereddit
I love the way everything moves in such an eerie, unnatural way, from the way the bell rings, the way the bird calls, the way the dog howls and of course the skeletons dancing, it really does set the mood.
Imagine seeing this in a couple hundred years. It would be like having recordings from the 1700s today
In a couple hundred years from now, humans will all have succomed to the coronavirus.
bro that's just how like TIME works
Well this video is from 1929
@@pzlayer1420 Humans will succumb to nothing else than humans. Sooner or later.
kksjdbbffoywls
Kid: *Has a slow and agonizing death*
Oompa-Loompas: 2:37
Lol😂
🤣
This is so true 😭
They don't care because the oompa loopas are already dead
LMAO
The part where all 4 skeletons fuse to make an 8 legged, 4 headed creature is...truly disturbing.
Tobias The World-Weary there are only 3 pelvises and 3 pairs of legs and the 3 rib cages pairs of arms and collar bones. Why not 4? This bothers me.
Kim Hirschman one of them is Still Out There. he’s waiting for you
jan s Abra abra cadabra - he’a gonna reach out and grab ya
LOL
Sleipnir? o_O
I miss the days this would come on every Halloween morning in the 80s. An awesome way to kick off my favorite Holiday.
Happy early Halloween!
👻 🎃 👻 🎃
The fact that this was animated with just paper and pencils is amazing.
ink but it's amazing
I KNOW!! Soon common sense will prevail I hope.
2019: we make the best cartoons ever!
1929: hold my beer
I guess the new thing for anyone to say is the "hold my beer" bullshit. Cant wait till that goes away
maggs131 its not that new actually
1929 was within the era of prohibition, so it wouldn't have been holding a beer to begin with.
I like how someone tried to make a joke and everyone's just disagreeing and correcting it lmao
@@AdmiralBonetoPick that's where you are wrong, my friend XD (bootlegging was very popular). Now, if you mean illegal, you are right
why did I just watch this entire thing
Because is fun as heck
Because it is a classic! That is why!
Because- well
Why would you not
Because it's awesome and spooky.
DOOT DOOT!
Yup, it's that time of the year again, I just love it.
At 4:00, I can only imagine the xylophone skeleton is going “why Jeff, *why.”*
Honestly expecting him to get tired of that bullshit and lash out at the other one.
Nyerguds lol, definitely
He's so done with Jeff.
He's tired of bending over every time
Yeah poor guy
Spooky fact: There's a creepy skeleton inside you right now.
:o I never knew that... Thank you for this very useful info!
+Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨Ʒ No. You're a brain in a skull. You are inside the creepy skeleton.
+Drunkrobot Debatable.
I'm turned on by skeletons.
AAAAHHHH!!! GET IT OUT!!
Technically astounding work for 1929. No character animation to speak of, but the sound sync sophistication is astounding.
Carl Howard What's bad about the character animation? Everything looks clean and they were very creative when coming up with the "dance moves".
When I worked in a Kindergarten in Beijing I'd play this at Halloween and the kids would be laughing so much they'd be in tears. Not many cartoons are able to pull that off, let alone after 100 years!
When a tiny kid gets that belly laugh ❤. It’s like the purest thing in the world.
Awww
When the "g" falls off of the graveyard sign
raveyard
Lolol
Underrated
When the “g” falls off of grape house.
Haha
Nobody:
Me: Binge watches Halloween-themed cartoons in the middle of July
Huh (I'm saying I'm not but look)
Me rn. I always get exited for halloween super early
I’m doing it on the first day of August.
XD
as you should
after all these years, still a great cartoon. thanks Walt Disney
Anyone here knows those dancing or waving classic cartoons(shadows in shape of monsters) used in edits and memes, they have a certain music added, i really want to know their name
@@Chupa_hunt Spooky Scary Skeletons?
and Ub Iwerks
I CAN'T BELIEVE WE SAW THOSE SKELETONS IN THE PICTURE FROM ONCE UPON A STUDIO.
Thanks Walt Disney, Ub Iwerks and Carl Stalling!
One of my favourite Disney shorts for Halloween. I love dancing along with the skeletons 😂😂😂😂😂
Ummmmmmmm....
Why
This cartoon still holds up remarkably well to this day
That's the great thing about hand drawn animation, it's timeless
Exactly, when you don't push for realism, your creation becomes impervious to new tech developments.
For example, a realistic game from the early 2000s is laughable in terms of "hyper realistic graphics", but a game like darkest dungeon will never have "outdated graphics"
I love this silly symphonies-series. They made 75 episodes and i want to see them all. I think they are the best creative work from its time. The creaters really pushed their limits.
This was created by talented artists, by hand and no computers. 🤯
Computer assisted animation doesn’t take less skill, it’s just less time consuming and makes things less stressful. I’m not saying I don’t prefer the way traditional handmade animation looks, with all the small human inconsistencies though.
@@peanutbutter6720 true people think computer does all the shit, it doesnt
I do digital art, when i say this to some one they say it isnt real art im like bruh
@@peanutbutter6720 computer does take less skill
@@gyaruxoxo not really. It kinda just makes colors and erasing shit easier
Yo I just made probably the most fire remix of Spooky Scary Skeletons, can y'all check it out? I promise I didn't miss with it 🙏🏾🙏🏾
ruclips.net/video/lw3JDja2QUI/видео.html
It is pretty impressive they innovated so many techniques from scratch to draw this by hand.
All the Silly symphonies and Fantasia are probably my favorite things about Disney. Such classics. Such masterpieces. And proof that you don’t need speaking/singing to make a great film! Plus the animation is adorable. I miss it.
2:37
"Alright boys, time to make history!"
Grimm in the dance right?
2:27 is where it really begins!
"Watch it back there!"
LAMO 😂🤣😂😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
“Time To Be Famous (Make History)”
Imagine being a kid in the 20s and seeing 5:12
NcMasty the fact that being a kid in the twenty is also someone born this year is mind blowing
ً I know
You mean that's not what a horse looks like? Maybe i shouldn't have gotten that free horse from coruscant.
This steel creepiest shit I am ever seen
@@-_Sleepy_Little_Star_- why did you admit that you're underage on the internet
In 5 years this will be 100 years old 🤯
yea, everyone worked at this cartoon isn't alive today but this is their legacy, so i think they.... maybe, are immortal, thank you were ever they are .
They shall live on
*IN SPOOKY SCARY SKELETONS*
How many burning in hell
We will never know
@@Truth72500 What are you talking about? Lol we're talking about the people who worked on this, and if they are still alive, not how many there are in hell.
@@SStupendous lolz it's called a.joke tis the season, to use your brain. While you still have it, that iz.
@@ALaVeyy So funny, burning in hell Xd so hilarious
"Endgame is Disney's greatest work, no doubt"
Me, an intellectual:
No chance
As much as I loved Endgame this is way superior!
Allow me to explain😂
Yes
Marvel ?
Imagine watching this back In the 1920. Now days we have so much modern entertainment that we are desensitised but imagine living in an era when animations are still experimental and suddenly a skeleton pops up on your screen and starts doing spooky stuff with other skeletons. And then the skeletons combine and turn into a giant skele-monster. Seeing that must have been a scary experience even for an adult
Not only that, but to see any sort of movie must have been a special occasion. You either had to go out to the theater and pay for a seat and just hope whatever cartoon they played was decent.
I read something about this film, but instead of being frightened, people back in the day where laughing in their chairs seeing this.
This still stands up today. A true testament to how wonderful this is.
this is from 1929 not 1920.
Do you have cable tv? If you do you have CARTOON NETWORK?
This was released in 1929. It's been almost a century, and the animation holds up beautifully ❤
I love how basically every sound is some sort of an instrument
Back when Disney was passionate about their work and weren't greedy
yeah now they’re too greedy
.
Not just disney, WB, pixar etc they start good and then start falling at some point
While I agree with passionate, I wouldn't call Disney not greedy, regardless of the time perioud
Passion in live action has diminished. Their animation department is still top notch. The only thing missing is 2D animation, even if it's not good for the environment
Lisa: "Dad it is Xenophobia. Xylophobia would be someone with fear of xylophones".
Homer: "But I am afraid of xylophones. It is the music that plays when the skeletons are dancing".
The Simpsons is owned by Disney
@@saraabebe5159 ok but still, is a rare reference to get.
IT’S SPOOKY SEASON 2019 WHO’S WITH ME
Let the spookiness come. Fear is absent from my heart
Bring on the spookies
I LOVE SPOOKTOBER!
i am with u
yea yea YEA!!!
Still better than today's music videos.
Ry Ahme
I WAS BORN IN THE WRONG GENERATION
RainyDay Don't say that bullshit
I WAS BORN IN THE WRONG GENERAAATIIIOOOOOONNNN
Agreed
The fact that this exists in the first place is just the most amazing thing ever. Sadly all who worked on this have probably already joined the skeletons themselves.
They lived in the most glorious era that ever was!
Considering that this cartoon was released 90 years ago, I think it's a pretty safe bet that everyone involved in making it is dead now.
They are the skeletons
So, you’re implying that the skeletons are from the future, if they were alive when making this?
And one day so will we!! Happy Halloween!
Better to have the short subject pictures like this back on the theatre screens instead of the advertisements of local businesses.
its crazy that this short film is almost 100 years old. it came out in 1929, and the fact they had this kinda tech back then to make it so smooth and detailed is crazy.
94 years
i fear no man... but that thing...
5:09
it scares me
Centipede...🤣🤣
If that scares you
This will terrify you ruclips.net/video/pP-A1s4ikBo/видео.html
Now imagine it with skin
This shakes me to my very core. Even tho Ive seen plenty of skeletons
4:06 - 4:21
Little did these animators and musicians knew their creation would one day be a meme
I'd hardly call it a meme but whatever floats your boat, eh.
dude this thing would inspire that spooky skeletons meme
Little did they know what memes were
The word meme wouldn't be invented until 1970s
They deserve a better rep than just memes
Just think this animation was done without the benefit of computers. In other words, these folks had some awesome talent.
Yes, I love the old hand drawn animation.
The copyright year was MCMXXIX. If I remember, that would be 1929.
October: **exist**
Everyone:
dafrik why is everyone replying their birthdays?
(sorry for my potty mouth lol)
My birthday this month on around Halloween 26 boo
XD
@@stephaniemillay4925 my birthday is on october 23
*exists
My birthday is on October 17 *( I share the same birthday with marshal mather.)*
5:10 *Top 10 Most Overpowered Anime Characters*
Just a Guy it’s not anime
FancyPants dank Animations You don't get the joke...
Just a Guy oh.... sorry 😐
r/wooosh
@@theblizzard8735 It is
2:46 Me and the boys after eating all the vitamin gummies at the sleepover:
Yeah
nothing?
Flintstones
They should really stop making those taste so good
So youre dead?
Я росла на мультиках Диснея, и уже забыла с годами, как любила эту анимацию в детстве. Очень приятно вспомнить. Такая ностальгия... Спасибо
I wouldn't be surprised if Michael Jackson, being a huge fan of Disney, was inspired by this to create Thriller and Ghosts.
I, on the other hand, would.
No
But I don’t think he got his vulgar dance moves from this…😒
❤So nostalgic! I loved this as a kid, my daughters loved it as kids & now, my Grandkids love this!!!! Thank you!
I last saw this in 1960 when I was four on our local TV kids show. When I saw it on the search list I'm like, "WOW- could this be-?"
@@daphnemotta2630 ???????????????????
My mom would rent Creepy Classics on Friday nights for me when I was a kid and this always made me squeal with joy. I remember exactly how thrilled I was!!
She got a kick out of how excited I was ❤
5:03 when you’re playing hide and seek and none of you found a hiding spot and you hear the seeker say “ready or not here I come”
Olive editor
😂
I’m laughing way too hard at this one
Yeah, me and the boys turn into a mutant Skeleton monster when we hear the seeker saying "ready or not! Here I come!"
KERBI TREEPLE DELUCKS!!
Absolutely pure joy fun and pure genius talent R.I.P. Walt Disney who is truly madly deeply missed and loved ❤❤❤
bro he smoked crack and wanted to become immortal, i dont think that guy had purely nice intentions
He may have been a Nazi sympathizer and, at the very least, aligned himself with anti-Semites. One month after Kristallnacht, Disney personally welcomed Nazi director Leni Riefenstahl to his studios.
The original Spooky Scary Skeletons
+skellington15
I never knew what the original version of "Spooky Scary Skeletons" animation came from until now.
I just, never knew it was from Disney...
+Davie the Hedgehog You either didn't have a childhood, or is still a child right now.
+The RedCross Logic
Eh, it's just I didn't find this meme until like, 2012 or 2013 I think.
Davie the Hedgehog Not the meme, the original show.
I watched these movies when I was a kid.
I came back here for nostalgia's sake.
+The RedCross Logic
Ohhhhhhhhh, I never saw this until like, when I posted the comment.
Still, I found it weird but, it's what Disney had in their minds back then.
Perfect Halloween video. .3.
Lovely work! How did they go about making this sort of a thing? Did they make the music first and then create the animation or vice versa?
Shutter Authority from what have I heard the animation is done after the music
that's what makes these old cartoons so good!
they actually were two separate things
From what I have studied in history of animation, the composers at Dinsey wanted more recognition, so the studio decided to do a series of shorts called silly symphonies, where te musics created amazing songs and the animators created shorts that followed that music. That's why they don't usually make a lot of sense stroy-wise, they only made them to showcase what animators and composers in the studio could do. The same principle was used to make the movie Fantasia (even though they didn't use original songs, they took famous classical ones).
these people deserve some credit. The animation was done on paper frame by frame. geez
wanna hear something spooky?
*whispers* there's a skeleton inside you
2 spooky 4 u
Scarlet Rose you're spoopin' me too much!
Scarlet Rose o
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AHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That was spoopy.
Scarlet Rose 3spooky5me
This was the kind of cartoons I watched as a kid
Spooky Fact: There’re more skeletons on Earth than there’re humans.
I read somewhere that, pound for pound, there are more spiders than humans...
@@zanichbug burn them all
@@DatBoiChucklez BURN THEM ALL!!!!
Including those within the living.
@@zanichbug if all spiders teamed up all of human life would be gone in one year
*Old and scary, who else is seeing this classic cartoon in the quarantine of COVID-19?*
Me
Bruh you dead get out of here
Me
Me
Me
I come back to this every year.
Never gets old.
Our pofessor just showed this in our animation class a few days ago and it was the best class ever!!
The animation is superb. And those "3d" closeups...
I'm just astonished at the level of sophistication and workmanship. Truly, a work of art.
i would think the "3d" closeups defenitly made some people jump in their seats
Go back to your cave