Day 12: A Favorite Animated Movie
There are many great animated movies out there – for example,
“Finding Nemo,” “Cinderella,” “How to Train Your Dragon,” and most Pixar
movies. I chose to write about “The
Skeleton Dance” because I recently saw it’s a precursor to these animated
movies. It’s the beginning of animation
and the short film is still relevant and amusing today.
“The Skeleton Dance” features skeletons that are nicer than
cats (two cats hiss and spit at each other) but keep the creepy graveyard
atmosphere.
Repetition is a key element in this short. Once character would do something and the
other character would mirror it and repeat it.
Everything happened in twos (an action and then the action
repeated).
The skeleton dance itself was innovative and used
choreography staging techniques like varied heights, skeletons in the
foreground and background, and focusing on two skeletons and then bringing the
rest of the skeletons back for a group ensemble routine. One skeleton used another as a xylophone and
another used a cat as a violin, connecting the musicality to the screen.
As a short in “A Silly Symphony,” it was silly and
entertaining. Who knew skeletons were so
talented at dancing?
Watch it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h03QBNVwX8Q
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