Destino, the surrealistic film Salvador Dali and Walt Disney collaborated on in 1946 but left abandoned after eight months of storyboarding, finally was premiered on this day in 2003 at the Annecy International Film Festival, a prestigious event that celebrates achievement in animation. Resurrecting and completing Destino, based originally on a story by Dali and Disney Legend John Hench, was a mission undertaken by Roy E. Disney, who said at the time, “It is a little different [project] for us, but I’m enormously proud that we’ve done this because it is about who we are as artists, how long our history is and how long we respect it.” The short film, which featured many Dali-esque touches, including melting clocks and a sculpture of Venus rising to life, would go on to receive an Academy Award® nomination for Best Animation Short in 2003.
