Danse Macabre Camille Saint-Saëns 1980s cartoon, PBS elementary school music class
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- This originally aired on PBS in the 1980s featuring a poorly made up vampire host to introduce and discuss.
It was also shown to me when I was in elementary school. One of the best short length Halloween animations ever created. Terrific illustrations.
About the piece: Danse macabre, by French composer Camille Saint-Saëns, was an art song for voice and piano (first performed in 1872) with a French text by the poet Henri Cazalis which is based in an old French superstition. Two years later, the composer expanded and reworked the piece into a tone poem for orchestra, replacing the vocal line with a solo violin. The rest, they say, is history.
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Broo who else's music teacher played this every fall when we were like in 1st grade 😭
Yep, mine did on the film projector! 😄
my art teacher would play wade dennings halloween record... look it up, it is AWESOME she would draw the one eyed sad monster on the board as it played, and also the song Halloween, set to this tune!
I remember when it aired PubliccTV
Only 1st grade? We watched every year from K-5. The best!
I looked forward to it
For whatever reason I remember this having really smooth animation. I was wrong.
While it is not conventionally animated, the art and camera work make it feel alive, and of course the evocative music. As an animator, let me tell you, animating skeletons must be a colossal bitch! I haven't even mustered up the will to attempt it.
pluckyduck11y ugh. Just drawing them makes me anxious. I feel like if I draw too many it'll ruin my hands. I'm trying.
Same! I watched it when I was like 5 and I thought the animations were so good! Little did I know my little eyes deceived me..
if you call animation zooming in and out of stills lol
i actually remembered it being animated and black and white so i'm not sure if some of us original 80s kids caught a different version?
Y'know, the animation may be less than sophisticated, but at least the artists knew the poem that inspired Saint-Saens' poem, and illustrated the music accordingly. For that, this video gets 10/10 from me.
Yes The Clock strikes 12 times and then the skeletons have a party and then it's morning and they wait till next Halloween sorry if that's horrible I just quickly typed a summary:P
Agree
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@@jacksonwoods5692 and only with up thumb now
I finally found it! I remember this from elementary school!
OMG ME TOO
dude, i've been looking for this for like 20 years now. thank you jameson commercial
OMG yes!!! I loved it so much! It brings back so many memories!
SAME...I remembered it for so many years and finally found it a year or two ago...Mrs. Havens' music class in Hehnly elementary, haha (case any fellow alumni ever make the same rediscovery...)
I do too. I saw this in third grade. It was awesome.
We were shown a slideshow version of this every year before Halloween in my music class. Kinda a funny thing to show at a Catholic school, but it always ignited my imagination.
Cool teacher then.
Huh.
Well, keep in mind that La Danse Macabre (the original concept) is actually something Christian origin.
@@hell5309 neat
@@hell5309 skeletons interacting with the living in artwork of the European middle ages, very common motif
This music is one of the main reasons I love Halloween so much. Because this instilled a macabre sense of the unknown afterlife in me as a child.
From Roman tombstones:
Quod tu es, ego fui, quod ego sum, tu eris
(What you are, I once was; what I am, you will be.)
+MmeDefarge (Expose NYC Meth Labs) Actually it's "Remember me as you pass by, as you are now, so once was I. As I am now, so must you be, prepare for death and follow me."
+MmeDefarge (Expose NYC Meth Labs) yes, the "Three Dead Kings" parable
A sad reality for those who do not know God!
Those who have no hope!
+MmeDefarge (Expose NYC Meth Labs) Memento mori
Looks like everybody's music teacher turned them on to this classic! Shout out to Mrs Warren, Spitler Elementary, Hart Michigan!
I can’t remember her name, but Sergeant Elementry New York!
I looked for 20+ years. All I had was a vague memory part of it. One day I was talking to a middle school band teacher and hummed the parts I remembered and said we used to listen to it in music class on halloween and he "sang" the song and I was overjoyed that he knew it. Love it, so many memories.
Wow!! I knew this song wasn't just my imagination!! I remember my elementary school teacher playing this every Halloween. I tried to explain it to my wife, but it didn't ring any bells. Then we're watching Walking Dead and a Jameson Whiskey commercial comes on and THAT'S IT!!!! That's the song!!! I Googled "Jameson Whiskey commercial song" and bam!, here I am. Fond memories....
ALT3REDB3AST Ahhhh me too!!!! Mr.Smith in elementary! Oh the memories!
I used to see this same (or similar) animation every year at Halloween in my school as well, but it was in filmstrip version. I think this was it, but if not, it's darn close. Very glad to have finally found it! Yes, very fond memories.
Pretty much the same story here! Mrs Farrington, the music teacher, played this EVERY YEAR K-6 in my childhood. Admittedly it's not as scary as it used to be but the music is golden!
Hapoyv Happy Halloween 🎃 (:
This takes me back to early elementary school. Almost each year we watched this before and during Halloween.
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I miss it so much
Same. Except I did it in grade school
:)
Super Soldier Really? I didn't watch this until 4th grade.
I saw this video in all grades
Does anyone else think there just need to be more things with dancing skeletons in them?
Grateful Dead; are you??
camille saint saens is my all time favorite. this was my inspiration to learn violin and also apocalyptica
Shows how well our imaginations worked back when I was in elementary school in the 70's and 80's, because I remembered this film being much more elaborate than it obviously was! I can still see in my minds eye the darkened classroom and this film being projected by an actual film projector while we all sat on the floor watching! I have had a lifelong love of the Danse Macabre ever since! I remember we also listened to an old time radio show of "Sorry, Wrong Number Please" starring the actress who played the Wicked Witch in The Wizard of Oz! I loved my childhood and my elementary school! Simpler times.
After MANY YEARS I FOUND IT AT LAST
This isn't where I parked my car
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Omg Hahahaha Lol
Kim Arnold LOL 😂
Kim Arnold j
Kim Arnold what was that all about it don't get it at all 😮
We watched this when I was in elementary school every year at Halloween. I'm now fifteen and spent an hour searching for it.
Wow this gives me so much nostalgia…
We’d always watch this in elementary school! I remember being scared but also in love with it. Memories.
I too want my tombstone to read *THE END* 💀
I was mine to read "I told you I was sick"
Ack! That wrist will prevent him from shifting properly!!
+negation of being the only thing scary about the video lol
You are so right
Ok
Don’t forget about that bow hold!🤮
It's a skeleton. Their phantom powers grant them the ability to have a pan hand and be able to play vibrato and change hand positions. The bow hold is a magical ability that only skeletons without muscles can pull off! 😂😂😂😂😂
I first heard this song when I saw this cartoon as a little kid - favorite song ever since
When I was in kindergarten, the music teacher played this for us once. I was raised in a Christian home (and still practice Christianity), and I had been told we weren’t going to celebrate Halloween with any big emphasis because, you know, demons are bad lol. Anyway, I took that idea wayyyyy too far (further than my parents ever intended), and being the devout 5-year-old Christian I was, I got mad at the music teacher for showing us this. It’s not even related to Halloween in and of itself, but she showed it around Halloween/in the fall, and so my mind made it a Halloween cartoon. And to me, Halloween was exactly the same as devil worship. In my mind, this woman had forced me to violate my religion and core beliefs by having me watch this video (I was a weird kid haha)!
I wanted her to get in trouble, so when I got home from school that day I told my parents that she made us watch a horror movie about zombies. As you can plainly tell, this video is not, in fact, a horror movie about zombies. They asked me all kinds of questions about my story, knowing I wasn’t telling the truth. They threatened to call the school and get mad at the music teacher, which of course I told them not to do because I knew I was lying. I don’t believe they actually ever called or told anyone what I said. And I was punished for the lie haha.
She was actually a good teacher and exposed us to a wide range of topics, mostly relating to classical music. My family moved to a different state the following summer, so I started 1st grade in a different school district, but I bet I would’ve learned a lot more from her had I stayed in that first school (it was K-12). I went on to become a classically trained pianist and singer, spending most of my childhood studying classical music (I stopped just before starting college). I can still remember several of the lessons she taught us, and while I wouldn’t attribute my decision to begin classical training to her class alone, I would definitely say she gave me a nice start and opened my mind to the world of music. I can’t even remember her name, but if she still shows this video to her kindergarten students, I hope she checks the comments and sees this. Haven’t seen her in around 15 years. Hope she’s still teaching and doing well.
@CR Productions Fair enough. I have learned the actual history of Halloween before (not gonna say I’m some kind of expert but I am aware of Samhain). I think my parents just wanted to make sure I never got too into Halloween. Like some people actually do go out and visit places that are supposedly haunted and get out ouija boards. That may not be the original thing to do on Halloween/All Saints’ Eve/All Hallows’ Eve, but modern people take that day as encouragement to mess with stuff they shouldn’t. My parents didn’t want anything like that going on in their house, so they let me know early on we weren’t gonna be a big Halloween family. I do dress up most years haha! But my costumes are always more “innocent.” I’ve gone as Captain Jack Sparrow from Pirates of the Caribbean multiple times, as well as other Disney characters. No sexy costumes though! Gotta keep it PG. Especially since I spend Halloween at church volunteering at the fall festival. I don’t believe in ghosts at all, but I do believe in demons and that Satan uses them to hurt us. I think if you start trying to communicate with them that you’re messing with stuff you should leave alone. And that’s pretty much it haha.
It would have helped your 5 year old self to have been told it's actually super religious 😅. Danse Macabre, momento mori, Three Dead and Three living are Christian reminders that death comes for us all and to turn to God and living a good life before it's too late.
@@MekareP Interesting!
I can confirm this story. I was the screen it was played on all those years ago.
Christian schools....pure garbage
We listened to this song in elementary school around Halloween in music class and I loved the song but for years I couldn’t find it. I found it :)
The teacher on the smart board had his own makeshift animation presentation thing sort of like this and at the end when the song hypes up it’s the sun rising and the skeletons are scrambling to get back to their grave and I loved the anticipation.
*Memories.*
You have no clue how much I've been searching for this
My favorite. I first heard this in grade school and loved it!
My band directior showed us this today and I fell in love with this tune
My music teacher, Mrs. Rutherford, would always pop in a VHS of this video around Halloween.
Me to
Omg. My music teacher Ms.Johnson would do the exact same thing
My music teacher to
Ironically enough, I want this to be played at my funeral.
When my roommates asked me why I wanted to learn the violin...because flying skeletons!
All of these years and I finally found it
i have been looking for this for years! my elementary school music teacher would show this every year on this massive slide projector! so many memories!!!
So did mine, in 2nd grade..I didn't sleep that night like a dork...but mind you it takes A LOT to scare me..and my mom came in to talk to my music teacher sayig, "listen lady, my same fucking music class played that fucking frightening animiation to the danse macabre...if you scare my kid again, by halloween your bones will be in a hallow grave" okay she didn't say that last part...but I wish she did lol.
Mine too!
your mom talked to your music teacher?!
I heard it in 5th grade and I never knew this existed
Sara Rabbermann mine too! Except for she made us be skeletons pumpkins and ghosts......but the pumpkins got to roll on the floor.....I remember hitting my head a few times 😂😂😂
I watched this every year around October but the kicker is that as a child I had a severe fear of skeletons. I would hide when whole time and cry lol.
I remember when I used to watch this during class.
+Sophie Bradshaw Do yo remember "Night On Bald Mountain" video that puppets in the beginning & end with creepy pictures in the middle especially a head on feet creature?
Only took me a good 10 years to finally find this!
I love how this is set during the Romantic era of Classical Music.
Finally found this childhood memory! Favorite song from my past! Music class was the best when this song plays!
Everything's better with skeletons.
Especially most animals.
Kawaii Potato no fuck you spooky bois are always welcome.
Ramsay fan I see
I have a couple plastic skeletons in my room, xD... A bat, a bird, a giant spider, a lizard, and a human skeleton.
especially your homes foundation skeletons belong there especially if they come to life and entertain you.
This scared me to death back in elementary school. I literally had panic attack and had to leave the room because all the lights were off and the visuals gave me nightmares. I love it as an adult now. As for those calling this animation, it is NOT animation. This was a series of images on a projector cast onto a wall or pull-down screen. Our music teacher flipped through the different slides throughout the song.
Holy hell do I remember this
In grade school every year around Halloween, my music class would show this short.
We did activities on it, we analyzed it and I was left confused and not terrified after watching it.
Man were those good memories
I love his music ❤️💙💛💜💚😍
I remember seeing this for holloween back in elemntry school! Still is amazing with its beat!
I have literally been looking for this for 9 years. That is not an exaggeration. I love this so much!
dude it took me an hour to find this lol. so much memories
Elementary school did not bring me here, no. My amazing music taste brought me here
Stefano Valentini me too
Impeccable Artwork .Colaborated.. ...
Be still my childhood memories 🙏❤️
This is actually older than 80s, I was also shown this each Halloween by my elementary music teacher, Mrs. Cowles. I was done with elementary school in '78, and I had seen it several years by that point. I looked forward to it!
Am I literally the only person who didn’t listen to this song in Primary School? 😂
yes
Nope.
Yes
No lol
I WANT THIS ON MY GRAVE
A great tune and the old tale of Death waking up the dead between the time of midnight and the crow of the rooster at dawn and dancing etc to music is absolutely wonderful, i especially love the sound of Death regret after the rooster blows that the day of music and dance is over. This old tale comes from stories from pagan times & the time of the black death with symbolism thought to derive also from all souls day & the Halloween period in general . A total classic of classical music.
I remember being in my elementary school music class and we would watch this video a few times each year around Halloween. Good memories.
A masterpiece - and it actually makes you want to sway along and dance =)
Everyone is saying they listened to this in elementary? My parents used to play this video for me over and over again because I loved it so much! Even now it still sparks my imagination :)
We played this song in my orchestra class and I fell in love with it, it's one of the few from this year that I have
You are AWESOME! I have been looking for this video to show MY music classes for YEARS!! I saw it first when observing for student teaching in 2001, and have been searching ever since! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!! My students thank you as well!
I remember this as a student and have been searching for it to show my students now that I am a music teacher! Love it!!!
My elementary school didn’t have this video but we did hear the song and we saw some illustrations about it!
Our music teacher used to play this every year near halloween until we were in like, 5th grade when it switched over to Fantasia Night on Bald Mountain. Fond memories of this!
It is always sad to see the night go :(
Ms. Farrington my old music teacher from A.E. Phillips used to show us this once a year it seems. Then I saw it on a Jameson commercial and what memories it brought back! Any other 80s or 90s bullpups watching?
My history teachers name is Mr Farrington and he's from Liverpool
This was one of my favorite music lessons to teach around Halloween.
I played the cello from elementary to high school and we played this piece every year for our Halloween concert! 🎃
We just watched this in school today and I love this piece of music so much! It’s so amazing how the music creates a story without words or pictures to communicate with the audience that is listening. One day I hope to be as successful as the composer of this piece.
I loved this as a kid. Imagining what was going on in that graveyard. Fantastic piece of music.
My mom showed me this when I was little and it's Halloween where I'm at...this is so touching thank you
This has just unlocked an old core memory
When I was younger, My grandpa used to show me and my sister this video when we were at his house. This is so nostalgic
This is what my music teacher played in perry l drew elementary while the class colored in Halloween fill in the blanks,
Ikr and did he have a mini tv
Absoutley love it..again a classic..shared .
R.I.P henri cazaliz 😔 and I was listening to this in music class o my lord😳 we were like “OMG SO SCARY” cause my music teacher let us hear the audio😳 and there’s A POEM TO THIS OML.
tétrico y elegante!
Cette musique est magnifique et je l'écoute toute ma vie !
Today I watched this in music class. Happy Halloween!! 💀💀👻👻👻💀💀
To my Music teacher from Arleth Elementary…it’s Cody and thanks for showing this. And if you are reading this around Halloween ….remember
THINK SNOW!
For some reason, even after 20 years, I can still remember the exact place and time I've first heard this song and saw this cartoon. What a beautifuly horrifying song.
Ms. Layton, if you read this some how, please know this song still sends a shiver down my spine thanks to you playing this on Halloween and wheeling that skeleton out of that damn closet
😂
Get over it. 💀😂 death is a part of all our lives
@@LigeiaInOctober Tf has death got to do with anything? Literally just don’t like the song
What is this thing about wheeling a skeleton out of a closet? Did she roll it around making ghastly moans in an attempt to scare people?
she sounds like a fun teacher lol
This used to scare the shit out of me when I was little. Now it's one of my favorites
loved this video as a kid
I love this music, its my favorite 🖤👄🖤
magnifique rien a dire de plus ❤☺
I grew upon this video
(I was 3 when it came out)
Excellent music & wonderful animations💯💯💯💯💯👍
i knew this was coming every halloween at school
me to
Evan Perry-Giblin same
Aneesa R I watch this at school
Somehow I was reminded of this song and then I had a flashback from elementary school. Our music teacher showed us this and everyone else was creeped out but I loved it. Idk why. But now this will be stuck in my head for ages.
Our music teacher did the same thing. First she played the music and asked us to imagine what was happening then she showed us the video. I have to say this was better than what my 6-year-old imagination came up with.
Wow Elementary school, very nice Camil saint saen music ,way to go
I saw this when I was in kindergarten. It scared the hell outta me. For years I was scared to go up dark stairs, even in my own home, fearing that one of those acid trip skeletons would pop out of the corner. Even now my eye twitches.
I really love this! I like that Death isn't just another skeleton, although he could be; he's the hooded overseer and orchestrator of the whole event. Very nice; perfect for Halloween.
The girl one that loved the boy one in red was cute
It was their love story , her grave was shown at the end
Therefore, her name is “The end”?
I bloody love this song
Thanks for best sharing👍💯👏👏👏👏👏
This is the classical music version of MJ’s “THRILLER!” 😃
Dig the dark atmosphere.
1st grade music class this was a vibe
THIS WAS MY FAVORITE WHEN I WAS IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Es toda una obra maestra, una obra de arte!!! Como me encantaría que tuviera la animación actual!! 😆😆😍
The violin is considered the loneliest instrument, but perfect for the GOD OF DEATH, his minions dancing in rapture under the sweet DARKNESSS of the silvery moonlight, ready to be taken away in ecstasy under the SPELL of liberation from their earthy bones.
Lucifer Fallen STAR-75 Damn dude...
Is it strange, is it good, or is it weird??? Explain!
Lucifer Fallen STAR-75 Jesus, are you Edgar Allan Poe's son or something?
Lucifer Fallen STAR-75 I'm actually his distant relative, it's cool at first then you remember his wife was his cousin... then it's gross
Lucifer Fallen STAR-75 if you're talking about the solo then I'm pretty sure that it's a viola.
so glad you posted this i was looking for it for years!
I wish I understood how amazing of a piece this is back when I was a kid and they showed this to me every year.