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Destino

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN JANUARY 2015

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Destino
Lost Disney films

Destino is an animated short released in 2003. It is unique in that its production originally began in 1945, 58 years before its eventual completion. The project was originally a collaboration between Walt Disney and Spanish Surrealist painter Salvador Dalí, and features music written by Mexican songwriter Armando Dominguez and performed by Dora Luz. It was included in the Animation Show of Shows in 2003.

Full storyboards and 17 seconds of animation were produced, but financial problems at the studio led Disney to shelve the short. Over 50 years later, Walt's nephew Roy E. Disney revived the project. A new group of artists used the original storyboards and snippet of animation to finish 'Destino.' The short played theatrically before the film 'Calendar Girls' and was nominated for a 2003 Best Animation Short Oscar. It is also a special feature on the Fantastia' and 'Fantasia 2000 Blu-ray.

The scenes blend a series of surreal paintings of Dali with dancing and metamorphosis. The work of painter Salvador Dali was to prepare a six-minute sequence combining animation with live dancers and special effects for a movie in the same format of "Fantasia." Dali in the studio working on the Disney characters were fighting against time. The giant sundial that emerges from the great stone face of Jupiter and that determines the fate of all human novels.

Methods inspired by the work of Freud on the subconscious and the inclusion of hidden and double images. Dalí said: "Entertainment highlights the art, its possibilities are endless." The plot of the film was described by. Dalí as "A magical display of the problem of life in the labyrinth of time."

Walt Disney said it was "A simple story about a young girl in search of true love."

The seven-minute short follows the story of Chronos and his ill-fated love for a mortal woman named Dahlia. The story continues as Dahlia dances through surreal scenery inspired by Dalí's paintings. There is no dialogue, but the soundtrack includes music by the Mexican composer Armando Dominguez. The 17-second original footage that is included in the finished product is the segment with the two tortoises (this original footage is referred to in Bette Midler's host sequence for The Steadfast Tin Soldier in Fantasia 2000, as an "idea that featured baseball as a metaphor for life").

Source: Disney Wiki

4-14-19 Update:

While on my cruise, I spotted Destino paintings.

November-27-2019 Update: Updated and changed chapter with added information.