Iconic moments from Disney's 1929 Skeleton Dance

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Two alley cats bicker and slap each other atop graveyard tombstones until a towering skeleton rises from the earth and scares them away.

When Graveyard Cats Pick the Wrong Fight

Four skeletons emerge from graveyard mist to perform an impeccably synchronized dance routine in Walt Disney's very first Silly Symphony.

The 1929 Choreography That Started It All

A musical skeleton uses two bones to play his partner's ribcage like a xylophone before bowing a cat's tail like a double bass.

Playing a Skeleton Like a Xylophone

A rooster crows at sunrise, panicking the four dancing skeletons into merging together as a four-headed beast to dive back into their tomb.

When the Rooster Crows at Dawn

[01:06] When Graveyard Cats Pick the Wrong Fight
[02:34] The 1929 Choreography That Started It All
[03:44] Playing a Skeleton Like a Xylophone
[04:56] When the Rooster Crows at Dawn

Iconic moments from Disney's 1929 Skeleton Dance

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