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

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

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!!!💞🎃💞💀💞💀💞💀💞💀💞🥰💞

hahahaht the skelleton playing the flute and the middle finger

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.

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

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.

I love these cartoons

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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😂 ☠️

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

Amo estos dibujos antiguos! Tan graciosos y expresivos !

I can see how Skeleton Dance inspired this.

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

its crazy how old this is yet its still great

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

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

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.

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!

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.

Old but still fabulous

Skeletons having fun!

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

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

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.

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

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...

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

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

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.

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... =)

Really awesome! Those backgrounds are quite exquisite.

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.

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

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

@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.

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

These backgrounds are beautiful.

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

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

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

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

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.

Love animation. Anything's possible...

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

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

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

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.

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

Thank you for sharing this! 💀💜

Thank you for posting these

I love these old cartoons. Thanks for posting!!

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.

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Que linda caricatura, gracias por compartir! 😊

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

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

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

Great post. Enjoyed this!

The world needs more skeleton cartoons.

Dem bones, Dem bones, Dem bones.

I love watching this every year near Halloween!

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

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

Excellent ! ☆☆☆☆☆ Thank you!

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

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

I love the dancing 5:30

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

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

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

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

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

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

The owl flipping jumpscared us

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. : )

I miss those old cartoons. I wanna get back there

Oh the middle finger how we love you in cartoons

This is giving my Grandfather flash backs

Shaggy: Dancing skeletons

It's so amazing but scary

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

I like the animation and choreography :)

I loved stuff like this when I was a kid, unfortunately I didn't know this back then. Funny!

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.

Rip Ub Iwerks, backbone of Disney

In the Totally Tooned in series they put a new song, a repetitive ditty that had lasted 2:16 (2:36 - 2:54) to 5:56.

Nostalgia maravilhosa parabéns pelo vídeo 👍