| Rooster | |
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Real Name |
Unknown |
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First Appearance |
Skeleton Dance (August 29, 1929) |
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Original Publisher |
Disney/Columbia Pictures |
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Created by |
Walt Disney & Ub Iwerks |
Origin[]
The rooster has black plumage all around his body with a large comb located on top of his head. He also has large eyes located on of his head and a beak located between both eyes as well a high-arched tail located on the back of his body as well as having two feet each with four toes as well as two spurs sticking out from both feet. When about to crow, his torso exaggerates to show he is about to do his morning routine in announcing the sunrise, which often drives away dancing skeletons back to their graves.
In The Skeleton Dance, the rooster appears at the end of the short perched on a fence in the countryside as the last character introduced in the very first Silly Symphony short. As he flies onto the fence, he crows loudly to mark the arrival of sunrise, causing the other skeletons to react to his crowing. This causes them to retreat back to their graves as they react in fright, ending their macabre celebration.
Public Domain Animated Appearances[]
- Skeleton Dance (1929)
Notes[]
- Strangely, the rooster does not have a lobed wattle below his beak, unlike real-life roosters.
- In 1937, Ub Iwerks worked on the cartoon Skeleton Frolic for Columbia Pictures' Color Rhapsody series, which is essentially a color remake of The Skeleton Dance, and features a scene with a rooster crowing to announce the sunrise, only in a different position as well as a different scene, unlike in the Disney short.
- There was no credit given to the animation of the rooster crowing in The Skeleton Dance, so it is unknown who animated the rooster in this short. However, this animation was later recycled for The Cat's Out, where the animation was credited to Wilfred Jackson.