Danse Macabre Camille Saint-Saëns 1980s cartoon, PBS, Halloween, Music

This originally aired on PBS in the 1980s featuring a poorly made up vampire host to introduce and discuss.
It was also shown to me when I was in elementary school. One of the best short length Halloween animations ever created. Terrific illustrations.

About the song: Danse macabre, by French composer Camille Saint-Saëns, was an art song for voice and piano (first performed in 1872) with a French text by the poet Henri Cazalis which is based in an old French superstition. Two years later, the composer expanded and reworked the piece into a tone poem for orchestra, replacing the vocal line with a solo violin. The rest, they say, is history.

EDIT: April, 2010 - 10,000 views!
EDIT: October, 2010 31,000 views!
EDIT: October 6, 2011 210,000 views! - Thanks everyone!

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[klc9909]

avatar aint got shit on this : D

[1bateleur]

before simpson halloween horror shows...

[L33NSPL33N]

Beetlejuice?

[seponvi]

English version:

In memory of their times of pleasures and passions,

Those white males and females skeletons

Weave and smash each one in horrible fury.

Shaking anxious their stark arms,

In vertiginous dance, they trembles, taken

By stridents notes of that magic violin.

[seponvi]

Poem of McDouall

(Spanish, original)

Al recuerdo de sus horas de pasiones y placeres,

Esos blancos esqueletos de varones y mujeres

Se entrelazan y se chocan en horrible frenesí.

Estrechándose anhelosos en su brazos descarnados,

En vertiginosa danza se estremecen, arrastrados

Por la notas estridentes de aquel mágico violín.

[seponvi]

Last year I read a poem named Macabre Dance by a colombian poet named Roberto McDouall a writer of XIX century and he depicts in lyrical way a Death Waltz with the Death playing the violin and skeletons (males and females) dancing around, I share a piece of the poem right now:

[casusbelli15]

They'd never get this by the FCC and Broadcating Stardards these days "too scary"

Great production!

[KonvoyChief]

What's the name of the cartoon and where can I watch it online?

[o0rglez]

i waanna live in thjere // on hallucinogens+_+

[lacraboy123]

holy shit, this is art...

[lacraboy123]

3:01 skeletal rapeface ._.

[Nikotyniak]

Educational (danse macabre motive), Charming (music) and interesting concept. I wish they would make refreshed version of this. Not "3D" shit, but how it's properly done, newer AND better.