A friendship between the father of Mickey Mouse and Salvador "I am drugs" Dalí might seem farfetched but, in a letter written to Surrealist André Breton in 1937, Dalí called Walt Disney one of the great American Surrealists. Their formal collaboration lasted only six months, but as shown by the letters, film, photographs, and artwork currently on display, their personal relationship endured long after the work was abandoned. Sadly, Destino, the result of their mutual admiration, did not screen until 2003, four years after Disney's nephew discovered its derelict remnants and employed a team of animators to piece together Dalí's original storyboards. Set to a melancholy tune by Mexican songwriter Armando Dominguez, it follows a woman and the god Chronos through fields of goggling eyeballs and melting telephones, among shadows that turn into clothing and ants that turn into bicyclists. Every Sunday in September, Destino will be shown with episodes from Disney's groundbreaking Silly Symphony, a series of 75 shorts — everything from The Skeleton Dance and Cannibal Capers, to Mother Goose Melodies and the first Technicolor cartoon Flowers and Bees — that would have surely turned Dalí's head as early as 1929.
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