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Skeleton Frolic

Skeleton Frolic

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Skeleton Frolic

1937

0h 7m

7.2(19 votes)

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Overview

Ub Iwerks dusts off the skeletons from his early-Disney days and puts them to work at Columbia… in a graveyard replete with eerie owls and surrealistic bats, skeletons begin to rise from their graves and form a loosely-jointed band.

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Directed by: Ub Iwerks

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