Let’s go back to the early days of Disney for our next Halloween cartoon – the Ub Iwerks-directed The Skeleton Dance is actually the first ever entry in Disney’s “Silly Symphonies” series. It’s a basically plotless music/dance cartoon (as most of the early Silly Symphonies were), but with enough interesting visuals to keep it worthwhile. I particularly like the shots at the beginning of the owl, and the wolf howling at the moon. Footage from the cartoon has been reused quite a lot by Disney and others. Another, slightly more plot-driven skeleton-themed cartoon by Ub Iwerks is Spooks (1932), starring Flip the Frog and produced by Iwerks’ own shop after he left Disney.