Silly Symphonies
The Silly Symphonies is a series of animated films that were produced from 1929 to 1939 in the studio of Walt Disney.
After the success of Mickey Mouse films Walt Disney and Carl Stalling, the composer called 1929 this series to life. The name already suggests Carl Stallings projects, assign a greater importance of music in the cartoons. A common theme of the early films are dances or songs, for example, already the first Silly Symphony: The Skeleton Dance ( 1929). Models were pantomime and vaudeville theaters of the time. The precisely synchronized with the visible actions music often also took on the task of noise. This technique of setting became famous under the name Mickey Mousing.
The Silly Symphonies had no fixed main characters and served Walt Disney as an experimental field. In this series, Disney produced his first cartoons in color ( Flowers and Trees, 1932), and sat for the first time Multiplan camera ( The Old Mill, 1937), with a more realistic impression could be mediated by image depth. Multiple Disney could win with this series an Oscar.
The concept was taken up by other animation studios, including Warner Bros. ( Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes ) and MGM (Happy Harmonies ).