The Disney studio had a productive year in 1929. Along with releasing 12 new Mickey Mouse cartoons, it began a series of one-shot musical cartoons with animation designed to fit the music, instead of the other away around. The “Silly Symphony” series began with “The Skeleton Dance”, a creepy graveyard cartoon set to music Carl Stalling wrote after Disney couldn’t get rights to Saint-Saëns’ Danse Macabre. Watchable online now, it rises to the public domain in 2 days. #PublicDomainDayCountdown