Comments on: “Don’t bring your children” | The Skeleton Dance (1929) https://fictionmachine.com/2025/01/05/dont-bring-your-children-the-skeleton-dance-1929/ Deconstructing the machinery of cinema. Mon, 06 Jan 2025 11:11:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Stephen Dedman https://fictionmachine.com/2025/01/05/dont-bring-your-children-the-skeleton-dance-1929/comment-page-1/#comment-19390 Mon, 06 Jan 2025 11:11:34 +0000 http://fictionmachine.com/?p=18951#comment-19390 “There has been debate over the decades over whether these kinds of animated adaptations of classical music have had a negative effect, by implanting a predominant image in the minds of listeners.” – not just animation. Ray Stevens once defined highbrow as “someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger”.

This doesn’t usually bother me (I’m a big fan of Fantasia and ‘What’s Opera, Doc?’, and I think Zardoz was my introduction to Beethoven’s 7th), but it does bug me when classical music is used in advertising.

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