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

In 2003, Dis­ney launched a six minute ani­mat­ed quick referred to as Des­ti­no, ultimate­ly deliver­ing clo­certain to a mission that started 57 years ear­li­er. The sto­ry of Des­ti­no goes manner 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, slightly abrupt­ly, the mission acquired 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 mission 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 Greatest Ani­mat­ed Quick Movie, amongst oth­er acco­lades from crit­ics.

The clip runs 6+ min­utes and fea­tures music writ­ten by Mex­i­can track­author Arman­do Dominguez and per­shaped by Dora Luz. In our archive, we even have anoth­er ver­sion that fea­tures a sound­monitor 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 web site in 2011.

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