Springtime is a Silly Symphonies animated Disney short film. It was released in 1929. It was the third Silly Symphonies film to be produced.

Flowers, ladybugs, centipedes, birds, and frogs dance (and devour each other) in time to the usual blend of themes from the light classics.

The music used in the film includes “Morning Mood” from Edvard Grieg’s Peer Gynt, Franz von Blon’s “Whispering Flowers”, Amilcare Ponchielli’s music for “Dance of the Hours” and Jacques Offenbach’s “Gaîté Parisienne”

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A Spanish cantina. The toreador enters, sees the waitress being harassed, and confronts the military/police type doing the harassment. She comes to the bullfight.

Initial release: September 26, 1929

Director: Walt Disney

Cast: Marjorie Ralston

Music by: Carl W. Stalling

Distributed by: Columbia Pictures

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The Skeleton Dance is a 1929 Silly Symphony animated short subject produced and directed by Walt Disney and animated by Ub Iwerks. In the film, four human skeletons dance and make music around a spooky graveyard—a modern film example of medieval European “danse macabre” imagery.

Initial release: August 22, 1929

Director: Walt Disney

Music composed by: Carl Stalling, Edvard Grieg

Production companies: The Walt Disney Company, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Walt Disney Pictures

Distributed by: Columbia Pictures

Animation by: Ub Iwerks; Les Clark; Wilfred Jackson

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Silly Symphony is an American animated series of 75 musical short films produced by Walt Disney Productions from 1929 to 1939. As the series name implies, the Silly Symphonies were originally intended as whimsical accompaniments to pieces of music.

Release date: September 7, 1929

Distributed by: Columbia Pictures (1-26); United Artists(27-67); RKO Radio Pictures (68-75)

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