EGYPTIAN MELODIES (1931)

 NOW WE'RE VISITING A PRETTY EARLY DISNEY SILLY SYMPHONY. 

This B&W cartoon is fairly Halloween-appropriate as it has dancing mummies in it.  And our hero is a cute-as-a-bug spider who is building his web under the Sphinx when a secret door opens leading inside. 

Our spider traverses the inner catacombs in a really very awesome sequence which has a somewhat 3-D animation look to it and reminds me very much of an old POV video game. 

Spidey winds his way down tunnels and corridors until he comes to an inner chamber.  An hourglass takes his fancy until the alarm bell at the top goes off

and wakes up a quartet of mummies who leap out of their coffins and begin to dance. 

Things then get real trippy as the hieroglyphics on the walls begin to move about. 

This sequence goes on perhaps a big long but eventually morphs into more 3-D animation which is really cool. 

Spider is really freaked out by this point and makes a run for it; scrambling back up the winding tunnels until he emerges outside the Sphinx and hightails it outta there! 

There is not much here that we haven't seen before in early 1930's B&W cartoons but the beginning descent through the catacombs are a real standout!