Destino: The Salvador Dalí – Disney Collaboration 57 Years within the Making

In 2003, Dis­ney launched a six minute ani­mat­ed brief known as Des­ti­no, last­ly convey­ing clo­certain to a undertaking that started 57 years ear­li­er. The sto­ry of Des­ti­no goes method again to 1946 when two very dif­fer­ent cul­tur­al icons, Walt Dis­ney and Sal­vador Dalí, decid­ed to work togeth­er on a automobile­toon. The movie was sto­ry­board­ed by Dalí and John Hench (a Dis­ney stu­dio artist) over the course of eight months. However then, somewhat abrupt­ly, the undertaking bought tabled when The Walt Dis­ney Com­pa­ny bumped into finan­cial prob­lems.

Now quick for­ward 53 years, to 1999. Whereas work­ing on Fan­ta­sia 2000, Walt Dis­ney’s nephew redis­cov­ered the undertaking and 17 sec­onds of orig­i­nal ani­ma­tion. Utilizing this clip and the orig­i­nal sto­ry­boards, 25 ani­ma­tors introduced the movie to com­ple­tion and pre­miered it at The New York Movie Fes­ti­val in 2003. Des­ti­no would obtain an Oscar nom­i­na­tion for the Finest Ani­mat­ed Quick Movie, amongst oth­er acco­lades from crit­ics.

The clip runs 6+ min­utes and fea­tures music writ­ten by Mex­i­can tune­author Arman­do Dominguez and per­shaped by Dora Luz. In our archive, we even have anoth­er ver­sion that fea­tures a sound­observe by Pink Floyd.

NPR has extra on the Dis­ney-Dalí col­lab­o­ra­tion. Lis­ten to their audio report right here.

Notice: this video orig­i­nal­ly appeared on our website in 2011.

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Relat­ed Con­tent:

What Makes Sal­vador Dalí’s Icon­ic Sur­re­al­ist Paint­ing “The Per­sis­tence of Mem­o­ry” a Nice Work of Artwork

How Walt Dis­ney Automotive­toons Are Made: 1939 Doc­u­males­tary Offers an Inside Look

Disney’s 12 Time­much less Prin­ci­ples of Ani­ma­tion

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