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Destino: The Salvador Dalí — Walt Disney Animation That Took 57 Years to co*plete

Destino: The Salvador Dalí — Walt Disney Animation That Took 57 Years to co*plete

[html]In 2003, Disney released a six minute animated short called Destino, finally bringing closure to a project that began 57 years earlier. The story of Destino goes way back to 1946 when two very different cultural icons, Walt Disney and Salvador Dalí, decided to work together on a cartoon. The film was storyboarded by Dalí […]
                              




   



In 2003, Disney released a six minute animated short called Destino, finally bringing closure to a project that began 57 years earlier. The story of Destino goes way back to 1946 when two very different cultural icons, Walt Disney and Salvador Dalí, decided to work together on a cartoon. The film was storyboarded by Dalí and John Hench (a Disney studio artist) over the course of eight months. But then, rather abruptly, the project got tabled when The Walt Disney co*pany ran into financial problems.


Now fast forward 53 years, to 1999. While working on Fantasia 2000, Walt Disney’s nephew rediscovered the project and 17 seconds of original animation. Using this clip and the original storyboards, 25 animators brought the film to co*pletion and premiered it at The New York Film Festival in 2003. Destino would receive an Oscar nomination for the Best Animated Short Film, among other accolades from critics.


The clip runs 6+ minutes and features music written by Mexican songwriter Armando Dominguez and performed by Dora Luz. In our archive, we also have another version that features a soundtrack by Pink Floyd.


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


Note: this video originally appeared on our site in 2011.


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