The review amusingly reflects shifts in public taste over the past near-century - unless the sight of skeletons playing each other like xylophones is more comically enduring than I imagine.
It was Iwerks, in fact, who refined a rough sketch by Disney into the figure we now know as Mickey Mouse - but whom audiences in the twenties first came to know as Steamboat Willie.
The Skeleton Dance, the first of Disney's 'Silly Symphonies,' was similarly liberated from copyright on this year's Public Domain Day, along with a variety of other 1929 Disney shorts.
Despite the power of Disney's name, this particular film is better understood as the work of Ub Iwerks, who animated most of it by himself in about six weeks.
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