Skeleton Dance to run at the Carthay Circle Theatre in Los Angeles and at the Fox Theatre in San Francisco in June 1929, while Pat Powers arranged for it to play at New York's Roxy Theatre from July. In early August, Columbia Pictures agreed to distribute the Silly Symphonies, and The Skeleton Dance played as a Columbia release in September at the Roxy, making it the first picture in the theater's history have a return engagement. In March 1931, The New York Times reported that the film had been banned in Denmark for being "too macabre". Home media The short was released on December 4, 2001, on Walt Disney Treasures: Silly Symphonies - The Historic Musical Animated Classics and on December 2, 2002, on Walt Disney Treasures: Mickey Mouse in Black and White Video game It appears in the video game Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two as an unlockable short. References External links 1929 films 1929 short films 1929 animated films 1920s Disney animated short films American black-and-white films Silly Symphonies Films set in cemeteries Dance animation Films scored by Carl Stalling Films directed by Walt Disney Films produced by Walt Disney Columbia Pictures short films Columbia Pictures animated short films American dance films Animated films without speech 1920s dance films Fiction about skeletons Viral videos 1920s English-language films 1920s American films