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Egyptian Melodies is a 1931 Silly Symphonies animated short subject produced by Walt Disney and directed by Wilfred Jackson.[1]

Egyptian Melodies
Directed by	Wilfred Jackson
Produced by	Walt Disney
Music by	Frank Churchill
Animation by	Albert Hurter Harry Reeves Ben Sharpsteen Cecil Surry Rudy Zamora David Hand
Layouts by	Charles Philippi
Color process	Black and white
Production company	Walt Disney Productions
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date	August 21, 1931
Running time	6 min
Country	United States
Language	English

Summary

When a spider goes down into an Egyptian tomb, he instantly regrets going there when the mummies and hieroglyphs come to life.

Plot

The short film starts near the entrance of the Sphinx in Ancient Egypt, a spider plays his web like a harp. He notices the door shaking and jumps off his web, the door slowly opens up revealing pitch blackness. He creeps up to the open door, and tells us quietly to follow him. Beyond the open door is a long, dark hallway with a few staircases leading downward. The spider gets scared by a falling piece of brick and flees, he then tumbles down a staircase. He hears a ticking sound and goes to see what the source of the sound is. Now in a large Egyptian tomb, he giggles at the camera and points at a sandtimer but gets scared when the bell atop it starts ringing. He flees and tries hiding in a sarcophagus but flees awway at the sight of a mummy. Four other sarcophaguses open up, revealing four more mummies. The spider screams "Mummies!" and hides inside a vase, the mummies begin dancing around the tomb. After the mummies are back in their sarcophaguses, the spider looks around and then spots the hieroglyphics on the tomb's wall, these come to life and start dancing. The hieroglyphics begin hosting a chariot race but then start a massive fight, the spider looks in horror at the crazed hieroglyphics and screams petrified. The poor insect cowers in fear and runs out of the tomb, up the staircases, down the stone halls and out of the door, running for his dear life over the desert dunes.

Reception

Variety (February 23, 1932): "One of Walt Disney's Silly Symphonies and just fair filler matter. Nice penmanship, as usual in this series, is outstanding. Starts out as though it's going to be original, with an Egyptian background, and one of the sphinxes suddenly opens a door. Spider crawls in and down corridors, with then the usual ghost and mummy stuff."[2]

Home media

The short was released on December 4, 2001, on Walt Disney Treasures: Silly Symphonies - The Historic Musical Animated Classics.[3][1]

References

External links

• Egyptian Melodies at IMDb

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