"Stalling pitched the idea of skeletons dancing in a graveyard as a musical novelty where the animation would be set to the music, rather than the other way around. Disney wrote to his brother Roy in 1928 that the idea had “dandy possibilities.”"
https://reactormag.com/the-skeleton-dance-how-disneys-1929-short-became-a-masterpiece-of-the-macabre/
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