Dali's meeting with Disney
Who Knew
But it sure figures
In 1946 Salvador Dalí and Walt Disney collaborated on a short and beautiful animated film. However it was not released until 2003.
Destino
Dali and Disney artist John Hence sat created the 122 storyboards and 22 original paintings of Dali over an 8 month joint effort. The project was stopped due to heavy financial difficulties for Disney during WW2... but Giannola released in 2003.
The film is complete with Disney magic, beauty and story, with the Fringe element of Dalis manic depressive imagery.
But what is capture in Disneys magic is the evolution and a bit of comprehension of Dalis haunting imagination and stylistic imagery.
But Disney was no stranger to the world of the Surreal as witnessed in so many films from Dumbo to Snow White to Fantasia. This collaboration was meant to be.
Surrealism in Hollywood
Dalí’s first visit to Hollywood was in 1937. His desire was to create an animated film to bring life to the metaphysical world in which he lived.
In a letter to the French founder of Surrealism, André Breton, Dalí wrote that Surrealism had become “enormous” and that “creators of animated cartoons are proud to call themselves Surrealists.”
“I have come to Hollywood and am in contact with the three great American Surrealists – the Marx Brothers, Cecil B. DeMille, and Walt Disney,” he wrote to Breton.
The return
During the latest releasing of Fanatasia, Walt Disney's nephew, Roy Disney came across Dali's original drawings for the film project. When released, this short film received an Oscar nomination in that year, (2003).
The collaboration lives on...
The Premise
The story is of Chronos, who is the personification of time, that falls in love with a mortal.
