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Of all the strange liaisons produced by Hollywood, the coupling of Salvador Dali and Walt Disney was perhaps the strangest. While the brainchild of that union was never given the green light, it nevertheless refuses to die; every tow or three years, the project is retrieved from oblivion and revived as a possibility to Disney, Destino was 3just a simple love story-boy meets girl.2 But to Dali, it was 3a magical exposition on the problem of life in the labyrinth of time,2 in which limp watches fell from heaven, monstrous telephones sprouted legs, sculptures sprang to life and a trickle of ants became a swarm of bicycle riders. the project was initiated in 1946 when Disney, who owned the rights to a Mexican love ballad by the same title, commissioned the famed surrealist painter to do a story treatment based on his interpretation of the song. Planned as a combination of animation, live action and special effects, the end product was to have been one segment (about six minutes long) of a package film along lines of The Three Caballeros or Make Mine Music. 3The name of the song probably appealed more to Salvador Dali than the music.2 asserts former studio artist John Hench, who assisted Dali on the preparation of storyboards. 3Dali had a thing for destiny.2 Hench, now Senior VP of Walt Disney Imagineering, remembers Dali as 3a kind of renaissance man2 who, unlike this public image, was perfectly sane. 3:Dali said, 3the difference between me and a crazy person is, a crazy person dwells in a kind of fantasy; he1s in another room from reality. When I walk in that room, I know where I am; I leave the door open. A real crazy person can1t get out; the door is locked.2 Dali was given complete freedom at Disney, Hench recalls., 3Walt came in and looked at the work from time to time. he saw the storyboards in progress and decided to let Dali go ahead and see what would happen. Walt was entranced by the whole thing. They had a rapport right from the beginning that was unusual.
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