Danse Macabre (1922) is a short, experimental American silent film directed by Dudley Murphy, conceived and choreographed by dancer Adolph Bolm, and set to Camille Saint-Saëns’s symphonic poem of the same name. The film blends live-action dance with animation, depicting a couple (Bolm and Ruth Page) trying to escape Death (Olin Howland) during the Black Plague in Spain, and is notable as one of the first dance films synchronized with a sound score. It is also notable for its early use of animati