# Dali and Disney's Destino

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 11, 2003, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dali-and-disneys-destino/194327 "2003-08-11T04:39:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![Alcibiades](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/cab0a1/32.png) [@Alcibiades](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alcibiades)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2003, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dali-and-disneys-destino/194327/1 "2003-08-11T04:39:57Z")

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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.

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**Author:** ![Manatee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/50afbb/32.png) [@Manatee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manatee)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2003, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dali-and-disneys-destino/194327/2 "2003-08-11T05:57:59Z")

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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?

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**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2003, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dali-and-disneys-destino/194327/3 "2003-08-11T06:08:29Z")

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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](http://mag.awn.com/index.php3?ltype=pageone&article_no=1761)

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**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2003, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dali-and-disneys-destino/194327/4 "2003-08-11T06:12:29Z")

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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.

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**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2003, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dali-and-disneys-destino/194327/5 "2003-08-11T06:45:58Z")

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> \*Originally posted by AndrewT \*  
> \*\*“Disney believes the project was abandoned because the compilation film was no longer commercially viable by the end of World War II.” \*\*

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).

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**Author:** ![Alcibiades](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/cab0a1/32.png) [@Alcibiades](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alcibiades)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2003, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dali-and-disneys-destino/194327/6 "2003-08-11T09:22:10Z")

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The film has been subject of a SD mailbag:

[http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mdali.html](http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mdali.html)

And it looks like it was first shown here:

[http://mag.awn.com/index.php3?ltype=pageone&article\_no=1761](http://mag.awn.com/index.php3?ltype=pageone&article_no=1761)\< /a\>