Silly Symphonies

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The Silly Symphonies are a series of cartoon films produced in the Walt Disney studio from 1929 to 1939 .

After the success of the Mickey Mouse films, Walt Disney and composer Carl Stalling started this series in 1929. The name already suggests Carl Stalling's plan to assign greater importance to music in the cartoons. A common theme in the early films are dances or chants, e.g. B. already the first Silly Symphony : The Skeleton Dance (1929). Models were pantomime and vaudeville in the theaters of that time. The music, precisely synchronized with the visible actions, often also took on the task of the noises. This technique of setting became famous under the term Mickey Mousing .

The Silly Symphonies had no fixed main characters and served Walt Disney as an experimental field. In this series, Disney produced its first animated films in color ( Flowers and Trees , 1932) and first used the multiplan camera ( The Old Mill , 1937), with which a more realistic impression of image depth could be conveyed. Disney has won an Oscar several times with this series . Donald Duck made his first appearance in 1934 in the Silly Symphony The Clever Little Hen .

The concept was also taken up by other animation studios, including a. by Warner Bros. ( Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes ) and MGM ( Happy Harmonies ).

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