Naturally, the series' first entry, the Walt Disney-directed The Skeleton Dance, kicks off the collection. Musical arranger Carl Stalling, who worked on both Disney's Silly Symphonies and Warner ...

Leonard Maltin, curator of the DVD release of the Silly Symphony series, said Walt Disney was a visionary. He used his Silly Symphonies to expand the medium of animation to the limits of his ...

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra on Saturday performs "An Evening of Disney Silly Symphonies," scores performed live with 1929 to 1939 animation.

Walt Disney used the Silly Symphonies to experiment with Technicolor animation and the multiplane camera, both of which were instrumental in the creation of Disney’s full length animated features.

Walt Disney's Silly Symphonies Volume 2 picks up where the wonderful Volume 1 left off, collecting lost comic strip treasures from 1935-1939.

Related: 10 Disney Films About Outcasts Finding Their Place The final Silly Symphony is Disney's second attempt since 1931 to tell Hans Christian Anderson's classic story.

ABSTRACT Disney broke away from gag-centered cartoons in favor of fantasy narrative in his Silly Symphony cartoon series, produced in the 1930s. In landmark Symphonies such as The Ugly Duckling, Babes ...

The complete restored soundtracks from all 75 Silly Symphony shorts will be available for the first time.

Disney's Silly Symphonies takes place on Saturday, June 4 at 7 p.m. The Orpheum Theater is located at 842 S. Broadway in downtown Los Angeles. Tickets are $38 and up.

The concert featured the Silly Symphony Orchestra led by conductor Steven Allen Fox, and played live to film several of Disney’s Silly Symphony cartoons.