Has anyone seen this?
I saw something on televicion the other day whcih said it was receiving awards in the Melbourne Film Festival, despite being made 60 years ago.
The excerpts I saw in the report were, literally, fantastic.
For those who don’t know about it, apparently Salvador Dali and Walt Disney were friendly, and they together made an animated short film of about 7 minutes. It lay in Disney’s archives until very recently, and was polished up by Disney’s son (I think).
Its quite mind-blowing.
I had heard of the Disney/Dali collaboration, but the books I’ve read all said that there was no footage actually shot (or nothing beyond test footage, in any case; not finished animation/film), and thus no film to screen. Apparently they couldn’t quite come to terms as to what Destino was supposed to be. They were at least somewhat friendly, though, as there are photos of Dali riding Disney’s backyard scale railroad.
The “polishing” couldn’t have been done by Disney’s son. He never had one. Perhaps it was Roy E. Disney, Walt’s nephew?
No footage had been shot, but it was virtually completely storyboarded. “Disney believes the project was abandoned because the compilation film was no longer commercially viable by the end of World War II.”
It was indeed Roy who kicked it back into life, after realising Disney did not have rights to the artwork until it completed the movie::
http://mag.awn.com/index.php3?ltype=pageone&article_no=1761
Disney had hoped to use some of Dali’s artwork in Fantasia, but they didn’t have the money to do so, according to a book a roommate of mine had. Sadly, I don’t remember the title of the book, nor the author.
That’s an odd thing for Roy Disney to say. After Destino was abandoned in 1946, Walt made two compilation features: Fun and Fancy Free (1947) and Melody Time (1948).