Dali and Disney’s Destino
In the 1940s, Walt Disney and Salvador Dali collaborated on a cartoon short together. Using Armando Dominguez’s ballad Destino as the backdrop, a six minute Fantasia-esque moment was conceived. But 22 paintings and 135 story sketches later, the project was abandoned due to financial reasons.
The result, concluded through the dedication of Walt’s nephew, Roy Disney, was completed 57 years later in a breathtaking array of imagery and animation heights. It’s almost tragic to think that this magnificent dreamscape almost never saw the light of day.
Walt Disney was once said: “Like the Night On Bald Mountain sequence Kay Nielson designed for Fantasia, I want to give more big artists such opportunities. We need them. We have to keep breaking new trails.”
Boy, times sure have changed.
Via Lukira.
Trés etranger.
fucking fantastic–thanks for sharing, dude.
Hey! I absolutly love Salvador Dali and have been searching the internet with any search engine that I can think of to get the whole movie. Do you have any suggestions on where I should look or do you have an idea of where I can get it? Thanks so much for showing these clips! They’re kick ass.
Melissa
Melissa: I have no clue where to even remotely look on the internet, or where to find it at all, really.
From what I understand, the fact that the animation piece was finished with Roy Disney at the helm (and we all know just how much the current Disney heads despise Walt’s nephew) doesn’t sit too well in the head offices of Mouseland.
It’s been going around arthouses, I know that much. But where to see it exactly in its entirety is a bit of a mystery to me.