These days, every year in
October you get compilations of public domain Halloween themed short films.
Prominent among them tends to be The Skeleton Dance, the very first
Disney Silly Symphony, mainly animated by Ub Iwerks. What I did not realize
until this year was that Iwerks, having separated from Disney for eight years,
made what amounted to a color remake of the short, named Skeleton Frolic.
Iwerks was also responsible for a rather autumnal cartoon, shading into winter,
called Jack Frost, parts of which I only first saw on Pee-Wee’s
Playhouse. Fred ‘Tex’ Avery was responsible for another scarecrow themed
cartoon in 1936 which I somehow feel is connected with the fall season.
Skeleton Frolic 1937 Ub
Iwerks Columbia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndZwmzaTaUI
The Skeleton Dance (Disney’s
First Silly Symphony) 1929
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61t22VGByok
Jack Frost (1934) Ub Iwerks
ComiColor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihCF4jwz688
I’d Love to Take Orders from
You (1936) Fred Avery
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