Purely History on Instagram: "Released in 1929, The Skeleton Dance was the very first entry in Walt Disney’s Silly Symphonies series. Directed by Ub Iwerks, it featured a group of skeletons dancing and playing music in a moonlit graveyard, animated perfectly to a playful classical-style score by Carl Stalling. The short was groundbreaking for its synchronization of music and movement, a concept that was still new in animation at the time. It combined humor, rhythm, and a touch of the macabre, sh

Cat Shavon Addison on Instagram: "Judy Garland’s blackface scene in Everybody Sing (1938) shows how minstrelsy was still treated as normal in Hollywood. Garland was a teenager under MGM’s control with little agency, forced into roles by the studio system. While common for its time, the performance was rooted in racist stereotypes that cannot be excused. Historians stress that the issue lies less with Garland’s intent and more with Hollywood’s exploitation and normalization of racism in entertain