# Disney + Dali = Destino **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 14, 2006, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-dali-destino/364484 "2006-07-14T15:46:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![First\_Amongst\_Daves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/4491bb/32.png) [@First\_Amongst\_Daves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/First_Amongst_Daves)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-dali-destino/364484/1 "2006-07-14T15:46:31Z")
From [imdb.com](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0377770/usercomments): > [@](#): > > What would’ve happened if Salvador Dali and Walt Disney had decided to work together on a project? The answer is “Destino” , the 6 minutes, 40 seconds long animated film based on a Mexican love ballad entitled “Destino”. Dali and Disney admired each other’s work and their meeting at a dinner party in 1945, inspired the idea for collaboration. Although, the film was abandoned in 1946 due to the economic problems created by WWII, Dali’s storyboards, sketches, and paintings were saved. Work began on Destino in May 2001 and in June 2003, “Destino” premiered at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival. > > Set to the Mexican ballad, the idea behind the film was described by Disney as “just a simple love story - boy meets girl”. Dali called it “a magical exposition on the problem of life in the labyrinth of time”. The end result is a tender, beautiful, sad, and charming love story as only Dali could imagine it, complete with the images as only he could create by the power of his imagination - melting clocks, tuxedo-clad eyeballs without faces, ballerinas, ants that turn into bicycles, and surprising baseballs. I’ve been wanting to see this for years now. Has anyone seen it? And does anyone know where I can get a DVD copy? Amazon don’t list it which suggest to me that Disney isn’t selling it? ---
**Author:** ![First\_Amongst\_Daves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/4491bb/32.png) [@First\_Amongst\_Daves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/First_Amongst_Daves)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-dali-destino/364484/2 "2006-07-14T15:51:01Z")
I see the Erudite One has discussed this: [http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mdali.html](http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mdali.html) ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-dali-destino/364484/3 "2006-07-14T16:03:25Z")
I saw it a few years ago as an opening short for _The Triplets of Belleville_. It was very good. The most interesting thing about it, and this is hard to visualize and even harder to describe, was how strongly both influences came through. There’s Dali’s gift for inspired images, with the flow and pallete of classic Disney. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-dali-destino/364484/4 "2006-07-14T17:38:17Z")
[QUOTE=First Amongst Daves] I’ve been wanting to see this for years now. Has anyone seen it? And does anyone know where I can get a DVD copy? Amazon don’t list it which suggest to me that Disney isn’t selling it? [/QUOTE] There have been lurking rumors that Disney may release this as part of their “Disney Treasures” collection sometime in the future (along with a “making of” featurette), but we’ve never heard anything official from them. With the release of older Disney the prevailing philosophy to take is “never say never, but don’t hold your breath.” ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-dali-destino/364484/5 "2006-07-14T17:40:44Z")
P. S. I would also be remiss in my continual search for self-promotion if I didn’t mention that I have a few inspirational drawings and other discussion of the short on my website [here](http://disneyshorts.toonzone.net/years/2003/destino.html). ---
**Author:** ![First\_Amongst\_Daves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/4491bb/32.png) [@First\_Amongst\_Daves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/First_Amongst_Daves)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2006, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-dali-destino/364484/6 "2006-07-17T09:49:46Z")
[QUOTE=Eutychus] There have been lurking rumors that Disney may release this as part of their “Disney Treasures” collection sometime in the future (along with a “making of” featurette), but we’ve never heard anything official from them. With the release of older Disney the prevailing philosophy to take is “never say never, but don’t hold your breath.” [/QUOTE] Ah, so not released yet. How disappointing. ---
**Author:** ![cactus\_waltz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@cactus\_waltz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cactus_waltz)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2006, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-dali-destino/364484/7 "2006-07-17T11:37:49Z")
Here is half a minute from it: [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iO1ghQFSXro) And yes, it looks very interesting and good. Now where is my Dégas/Looney Tunes combination? ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2006, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-dali-destino/364484/8 "2006-11-23T14:26:03Z")
Bumping this thread for some new information. No specific details yet, but it appears that Destino will finally be given a video release sometime next year as part of the “Disney Legacy” DVD collection. Details here : [http://disney.go.com/disneyvideos/disneylegacy/](http://disney.go.com/disneyvideos/disneylegacy/) ---
**Author:** ![JpnDude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/838e76/32.png) [@JpnDude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JpnDude)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2006, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-dali-destino/364484/9 "2006-11-23T17:01:31Z")
“Destino” has been showing in Japan during “The Art of Disney” touring exhibit. I saw it a few months ago in Tokyo. [Japanese Site Link](http://www.disney.co.jp/disneyart/index2.html) ---
**Author:** ![bonzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@bonzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bonzer)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-dali-destino/364484/10 "2006-12-06T00:56:25Z")
It’s included in the major [_Il était une fois Walt Disney_](http://www.rmn.fr/disney/index1-3.html) exhibition currently running at the Grande Palais in Paris, together with a selection of the original Dali drawings. What struck me most forcibly was that the style adopted in the “reconstruction” was rather loose - the imagery is very obviously Daliesque, yet the drawing, particularly of the figures, is more contemporary than a direct homage to either Dali or Disney in the 1940s. That seems appropriate, since the film, while obviously inspired by the preliminary sketches, is itself only a rather loose interpretation of many of them. It thus works rather well in and of itself - it’s neither an arid academic exercise nor quite what would have resulted had the project been pursued originally. ---
**Author:** ![Aunt\_Flow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed655f/32.png) [@Aunt\_Flow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aunt_Flow)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-dali-destino/364484/11 "2006-12-06T01:32:58Z")
Wow thank you so much for confirming something I was WAY too lazy to research myself. I saw the Destino short on Youtube I think? And it was labeled as being made in 1946. But I watched it and could NOT get over how the animation style most certainly was not 1940s era and looked much more modern. But I figured maybe they were trying something new and let it slide, only being mildly curious. Huzzah! Answers without research rock. ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-dali-destino/364484/12 "2006-12-06T01:57:41Z")
Saw it three years ago on the big screen, which was just amazing. It ran as an opener for _Calendar Girls_. I made mention of this in a SDMB Thread and apparently a few Dopers ran out to see _Calendar Girls_ just because they wanted to see _Destino_. Turned out that, although the two were paired together in the theater in my town where I went, this was not a broad distribution plan. Those Dopers came back to the Board grumbling that they had to see through _Calendar Girls_ and did not get to see _Destino_. :smack: Other Dopers mentioned in the Thread in which I sent people to _Calendar Girls_, as **Robot Arm** mentions in this Thread, that they saw it as an opening short when they saw _The Triplets of Bellville_. At the theater I went to for _Triplets_, there was no screening of _Destino_. ---
**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-dali-destino/364484/13 "2006-12-07T02:19:35Z")
I was recently on a cruise ship and saw it. The line we cruise with has this deal with Park West (the auction house) and they have a lot of Dali’s up. They showed Destino to raise interests in some cells they have from the film. I loved every short minute of it (about 8 mins) they said currently there was no plan on releasing it, but if you bout a set of the 6 prints (about 13k) you got the dvd of it too. ---
**Author:** ![TYphoonSignal8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e99b99/32.png) [@TYphoonSignal8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TYphoonSignal8)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2017, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-dali-destino/364484/14 "2017-11-01T01:06:19Z")
Finally! [- YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BO8ffgDbM80)