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