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Purely History on Instagram: "Released in 1929, The Skeleton Dance was the very first entry in Walt Disney’s Silly Symphonies series. Directed by Ub Iwerks, it featured a group of skeletons dancing and playing music in a moonlit graveyard, animated perfectly to a playful classical-style score by Carl Stalling. The short was groundbreaking for its synchronization of music and movement, a concept that was still new in animation at the time. It combined humor, rhythm, and a touch of the macabre, sh