Dali & Disney Short

Author: Bat BoyPublished: Aug 10, 2003 at 2:35 pm 6 comments

Destino short wins at an australian film festival.

Fragments of the unfinished film "Destino" along with story boards, sketches and an original score were painstakingly put together by a team assembled by Disney's nephew Roy Disney after they were discovered in the studio's vaults.

I cant wait to find see this short. I love Dali and Disney, and never had any idea that they were ever connected in any way. I hope they find a way to release it widely.

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  • 1 - excitableboy

    Aug 11, 2003 at 2:39 am

    Hot diggity! I've been telling people for over thirty years that Walt Disney and Salvador Dali once tried to make a movie together, and today I am finally justified. I can't wait to see it.
    The only evidence of Destino I had ever seen before today was in a now-lost 1947 copy of Look magazine that I found in my grandparents' attic. In addition to the article on Dali and his collaboration with Disney, there was a survey of potential Democratic candidates for 1948 which showed Dwight D. Eisenhower doing very well (that's right, Ike was listed as a Democrat), and a full-page ad/endorsement featuring the lovely Helen Twelvetrees, who was evidently the J. Lo of her time. The whole thing seemed like a product of another dimension.
    But now one of the stories from that old rag turns out to be true. Amazing! Please follow up on this.

  • 2 - Bat Boy

    Aug 14, 2003 at 2:35 pm

    I certainly will keep all the BCs informed if I hear anything more on the subject. :)

  • 3 - Bat Boy

    Mar 31, 2004 at 5:47 am

    IMDB has a listing

    expect a DVD this year.

  • 4 - no matter

    Sep 29, 2006 at 1:53 pm

    2006.....still waiting on that DVD to be released to the public. Only place I've seen the whole thing was on a cruise ship in the art gallery.

    Now all I want to do is see it again.

  • 5 - bulthaup

    Nov 22, 2006 at 11:07 am

    if you take a look on destino's IMDB page and message board, someone's emailed disney and got a reply that told them they're still making the accompanying documentary, and it'll be out next year, hopefully~

  • 6 - Bat Boy

    Nov 22, 2006 at 8:06 pm

    Here is what disney said:
    There are some rather ambitious plans to release "Destino" on DVD in '07. A feature length documentary on the making of the short is being prepared by a top documentarian and they are working on it as we speak. No firm release date yet, but it is coming.

    --Don't be suprised if this does not see light till 2008. "ambitious" could mean that 2007 would be rushing the process along, and for something that has been around so long I can't imagine a big push from anyone.
    Still, I am excited and usually enjoy documentaries, so I guess I would thank Disney for the extra work they put into this dvd.

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