Disney and Dali

[badriyaz]

Destino is a collaboration between Salvador Dali and Walt Disney Studio, begun in 1945 and never completed for release until a few years ago. I do share with Andre Breton a view of Salvador Dali as a hackneyed media whore, but the freshness of this charms me into a nicer frame of mind. The animation is beautiful and one really wishes Disney or

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[badriyaz]

It seems like it has always been unsafe to do these collaborations. This never saw the light of day, right?

That's true, it wasn't publicly screened until 2003 and is only going to be released on DVD later this year or sometime next.

Another side to it is that most artists these days would just do the animation themselves because the technology is much more accessible.

True to a certain extent, but I think a large part of the beauty of this is the classic Disney animated-by-human-beings style--teams of talented animators might be less accessible these days, I don't know...

[panzerkunst]

Poop. The video's been removed.