Salvador Dali considered Walt Disney one of the three creative forces in film. He probably never saw two of Disney's masterpieces, The Apple Dumpling Gang and The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes.
Invited by Alfred Hitchcock to design the dream sequences for Spellbound in 1945. Neither man was satisfied with his work on that film. Dali was disappointed in the filming of the dream sequences and Hitchock though Dali was a nut case.
Dali was introduced to Walt Disney at a party, Disney invited Dali to collaborate on a short animated film and the rest was not history. After preparing a storyboard and artwork for the project it was abandoned.
The project was resurrected and in 2003 completed. It's probably fairly close to what Dali and Disney had in mind. But I think the problem with this project was that these two men were artistically unsuited to collaborate. Disney always had some pretensions to a higher artistic calling, but his cartoon technique evolved into a realism which can be seen in his characters in Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, and Cinderella. Fantasia is actually a fairly middlebrow film, the abstract Bach Toccata and Fugue sequence at the beginning of that picture is pretty conventional in it's design. Dali was a surrealist, it was going to be an odd mixture of styles.
The short film does have a lot of Dali touches, melting clock faces, things cracking and ants crawling out of a hand. It also has for some strange reason a baseball player which I assume is the Disney touch.
7 minutes.
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