I paused at 2:32 and died laughing after seeing the flute player giving the conductor middle finger.

The Ironic thing is not that Ub Iwerks is remaking his own Skeleton Dance, but the fact that he made this for Charles Mintz, whom he and Walt Disney walked out on when trying to make the Oswald Negotiation.

Every single movement was had drawn,no CGI then! Remarkable! What a lost art! Loved it! 😮😮😮❤❤❤

I'm 65, such a treat to watch the toons I grew up with

It was made by the same animation directer of The Skeleton Dance, Ub Iwerks. Iwerks briefly worked for Columbia Cartoons after his own studio went bankrupt and his falling out with Disney. Later Iwerks would return to Disney and contribute to several special effects in animated features.

I like how the early cartoons could take something that would be scary and turn it into a fun musical number. Disney and Columbia did a good job wit hthings like The Skeleton Dance and this as well as taking it into darker tones with stuff like Night on Bald Mountain. I miss the classic cartoons.

Какой замечательный, музыкальный мультик!!! Очень понравилась музыка, концерт скелетонов, как они играли на инструментах и танцевали!!! Мультик создан в 1937году, более 80лет прошло, даже не верится!!! Браво создателям , такие мультики смотрят и дети и взрослые, они дарят позитив и радость!!!💞🎃💞💀💞💀💞💀💞💀💞🥰💞

Ever since the skeleton was invented, xylophone players have made a fortune.

I love these cartoons

This cartoon reminds me a lot of the Silly Symphony cartoon, The Skeleton Dance, but it is still suiting for Halloween!!! HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

The conductor was mad because the flautist was flipping him off lol.

2:32 - 2:58 , the the leader of the musical band is mad because the flute player keeps showing him 2 middle fingers

How can skeletons play wind instruments they don't have lungs. Madness, utter madness.

As much as I prefer "The Skeleton Dance", I have to admit that this one is definitely the creepier of the two... XD *shudders*

I absolutely love all of these videos At 2:32I remember them from when I was a child but I definitely have to point out doesn't it look like the skeletons giving him a double bird?

hahahaht the skelleton playing the flute and the middle finger

2:31 The skeleton gave the conductor the finger on purpose. XP

omfg the flute one flips him off.. god youve gotta love the 30s

The Technicolor and the cute design of the skeletons makes this a really "cheap" rehash of the original, chilling, B&W "Skeleton Dance".

I can see how Skeleton Dance inspired this.

For this cartoon to be made in 1937 it looked like it was made ahead of its time

its crazy how old this is yet its still great

Amo estos dibujos antiguos! Tan graciosos y expresivos !

2:32 the skeleton on the right is fliping him off

2:32 Umm anyone else pick up on that?? I wouldn’t have thought something like that would be in a kids show way back in the 30s lol😂 ☠️

This what Saturday Morning Cartoons are supposed to look like! 😅

2:40 I think he just got double flipped off.

Good thing this isn't almost an exact frame by frame copy of Disney's "The skeleton dance"

Esses desenhos antigos são os melhores

The color scheme in this cartoon is brilliant.

for some reason these cartoons look scarier than the ones right now in the present ...love it!

Ub Iwerks was the co-creator of Mickey Mouse with Walt Disney in 1928. The Disney Company has covered it up for almost a century.

Old but still fabulous

Note to all Necromancers: Please raise me from the dead to that my Skeleton could enjoy listening to this orchestra with a nice can of Coca Cola to go with it... =)

So refreshing to see these old cartoons, as they were so funny. For those with the critical comments on the musical instrument sounds etc. this is a "CARTOON" that was created for laughter and to enhance imagination into a make believe world and nothing more. If you are unable to view things like this and take them for what they are, stick with watching the news that shows nothing but violence and get a life. Thank you for posting this.

Very amusing!! One can observe there are several elements of Disney's "Skeleton Dance", which Iwerks animated and that put in this cartoon, released 8 yars later. Good music and dance sync! Thanks for posting.

I miss watching these old cartoons that were on the box when I was a kid. So much is just consigned to the vaults of history now sadly. The animation in these early cartoons were pretty cool. There was more ideas that you could get away with back then. Unlike nowadays of course...

Some of this is taken from the Skeleton Dance (1929)!

SKELETON FROLIC is a remake of THE SKELETON DANCE which Ub Iwerks animated for Walt Disney in 1929. Iwerks went out on his own the following year. Towards the end of the 1930s, he was doing freelance productions for Columbia and Schlesinger/Warner Brothers. This was a color remake, which was also repeated in a sense in MERRY MANNEQUINS. As for color, it existed even in the silent era. Full color Technicolor came out in 1932. You can use the Internet to find this out as well.

I wish this were available in HD somewhere. Some of the backgrounds are exquisite.

When a 30's cartoon wants to freak the kids out, they do it well! Also, the background for this is just so beautiful!

Skeletons having fun!

very cool cartoon!!!i love this kind of toons☠🦴💀

Really awesome! Those backgrounds are quite exquisite.

This may be a copy of "Skeleton Dance", but the animation is way more advanced. The scenes with the percussionist and the four dancing skeletons are done in perspective. They almost appear to pop out of the screen, while the earlier cartoon was completely two dimensional- still wonderful but not as complex as the later cartoon. By the way, the tree at the beginning spooked me. :O

did you notice that the flutist was actually giving the conductor the finger when he plays the wrong note

This was released in 1937 then rereleased as “A Columbia Favorite” in the 1940’s.

@willborges It's a remake of the short you mentioned. Both this cartoon and Skeleton Dance were made by Ub Iwerks. I do recommend Skeleton Dance over Skeleton Frolic. Skeleton Dance also were the first of Disney's famous Silly Symphonies.

An impressive piece, it has that musical quality that reminds me of Fantasia (the original one), but the old style has been forgotten. It's nice how beautiful they made this scene and the music is quite lovely as well.

These backgrounds are beautiful.

kinda weird how the people playing the music in the orchestra behind the scenes are actually dead now huh?

My goodness! That was absolutely wonderful! ☠️😈🎃👏✨

This looks so good, it looks better than some of the stuff put on the scene today!

((85 years of this Skeleton cartoon ( 💀🎃))).

Thank you for sharing this! 💀💜

These very old Halloween cartoons are as freaky as the best of horror films! That's why I like them so much!

Love animation. Anything's possible...

Excellent ! ☆☆☆☆☆ Thank you!

This seems very much like a homage to Disney's Skeleton Dance, but a respectful one with great color and atmopshere, as Ub Iwerks was one of the the grand old men of the Disney animation studios. Great stuff, thank you for posting it.

While The Skeleton Dance is, in my humble opinion, the undeniable superior cartoon, I'm amazed at Skeleton Frolic's surrealist, incredibly detailed backgrounds. Very stylish, the colors used help as well. I think this one's worth watching if only for that.

How has no one heard of this, its the infamous Skeleton Frolic from 1937!

I love these old cartoons. Thanks for posting!!

Thank you for posting these

You could say this is meant to be more of an upgrade to The Skeleton Dance. Since Iwerks was the animator for the original he could have been adding in ideas that weren't seen as possible in 1929, the use of perspective being the major one.

A lot is directly taken from it. Especially the beginning.

Why do I always watch this stuff before bed? #NeverFallingAsleep

The orchestra bit and the dancing are cute, and a new development from the Disney one.

Ub was the master of skeletons and loved scary, spooky, and all midnighty effects. The backgrounds of this film are an incredibly creepy spongy fungus effect, as well as quite beautiful, and compliment the foreground drawing virtuosity perfectly.

Great post. Enjoyed this!

I have a nice memory of this old cartoon. I caught it a few years ago during "Totally Tooned In" on Antenna TV. My little niece was sitting with me, probably all of about three years old at the time. I asked if she wanted me to change the channel to something else, or leave this on, since I thought it might frighten her. She replied, "No, this!!" so we watched. Didn't scare her at all. In fact she was pretty fascinated by it. The music, colors and animation probably intrigued her. : )

Más allá de ser un dibujo animado no deja de dar tanto miedo 😨 como una película 🎥 de terror 😱

I love watching this every year near Halloween!

watched this on TV when I was a kid. Scared me silly.

Que linda caricatura, gracias por compartir! 😊

There was also a home movie version of this cartoon which was in black & white, but I'm not sure if it was distributed under Official Films, a successor to Castle Films. Official Films did acquired the Columbia/Screen Gems cartoons during the 1940's, but I'm not sure that the home movie version existed.

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Love it, great stuff. Gives a nice tingly feeling of Halloween as well. Thanks for the upload.

Awesome i love it!!! many thanks for upload!!!

The world needs more skeleton cartoons.

Fun fact:a person saw this and created the cartoon favorite we all grew up with, Tom And Jerry.

A really fun clip to watch. Halloween is my favorite holiday!!!!

if this is how the afterlife goes - i no longer fear death

I miss those old cartoons. I wanna get back there

Lol at 2:31 the flute player give the conductor a double bird flip 😊😊😊

I love the dancing 5:30

Halloween for me as a 5 yr old in the 70s seemed drowned out compared to these old cartoons I grew up on. Little did we know we absolutely were the last generation to appreciate Halloween, Sorry gen Y and Z, you missed out.

This was on earlier today on "Totally Tuned In!" on Antenna TV.

Cara é sensacional esses desenhos gosto muito deles melhor dos desenhos de hoje os de hoje é sem graça

Frolicking and folly awe did you see his E fingers, stolen identity , cute

The idea is amazing. 👍👍👍

This is giving my Grandfather flash backs

Haha, I never thought I'd see a skeleton flip the bird.

I loved this.

It's so amazing but scary

Oh the middle finger how we love you in cartoons

I like the animation and choreography :)

flat out awesome.

Yes it is - that's because it was done by the same guy, Ub Iwerks, after he left Disney (and would soon come back, being a technical whiz who really transformed cartoons)

What a colorful way for Spooktober today.

Great cartoon. Amazing how you got the color version of this.