Disney and Dali’s animated friendship endured for years1 min read
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIt turns out the man behind Mickey Mouse had an appreciation for the eccentric, which led to a short-lived artistic partnership and decades-long friendship with surrealist Salvador Dali.
Although their styles and personalities were dramatically different, Walt Disney and Dali shared a fascination with the fantastic. They brought their vivid imaginations together shortly after World War II to work on an animated feature called Destino, which wasn’t completed until long after their deaths.
Even after they abandoned Destino, the two artists remained in touch and traveled to each other’s homes, swapping fishing stories and periodically discussing plans to make a movie based on Don Quixote. That dream was never realized. Disney died in 1966 at age 65. Dali died in 1989 at age 84.
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