Disney Completes Dali Animation

jbottero writes "Wired News has an interesting piece on a Salvador Dali animation coming out of Disney Studios. It seems that in 1946, Walt Disney and Dali teamed up on a short film called Destino. The film was shelved for money reason, and now, 57 years later, Disney animators has finished what Dali started. The six minute film will be shown in theaters next year before a Disney feature film. The remnants of the aborted film include 150 storyboards, drawings and paintings, which have sat for the last half-century in the Disney vaults. Notably, some of the project was modeled on the animation program Maya. An interesting quote from the article, Dali describes Walt Disney as one of America's greatest surrealists."

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[RobotWisdom]

Disney Corp alienates the progressives.

Re:Disney animators has finished?

[Anonvmous Coward]

"Correct to have finished. There is more than one animator. Compare with 'Disney has finished', wherein Disney is a collective noun, which, in American English, is treated as a singular. True plurals, however, are not."

I wonder if there's a typo discussion forum somewhere on the web that Slashdot is attracting users from. www.analnazispelling.com

Re:Disney animators has finished?

[solarium_rider]

Compare with 'Disney has finished', wherein Disney is a collective noun, which, in American English, is treated as a singular.

Correct grammar also requires the comma to be placed before the closing quote and not after.

Re:"teamed up" = Disney alone owns the copyright

[cubicledrone]

lol, and people are modding this down.

Three words: Winnie the Pooh.

'nuff said.

Re:Double standard

[El]

And the fact that Disney is a founding member of the MPAA that went after DeCSS, is irrelevant? Let's get this straight: Disney as a corporation has deliberately chosen to persecute open source developers attempting to provide a free DVD player for Linux. They are not the good guys. While I greatly admire Dali's art, I think providing free advertising for Disney runs counter to the professed pro-open source stance of most slashdotters. But, people that point out hypocrisy are never popular. Oh well... back to the shiny pictures!

David Lynch

[so1omon]

Probably the most well known purveyors of what I would call "American Surrealism". Granted, he's modern, but Lynch's vision is distinctly American.

Don't do business with organizations that hurt you

[jbn-o]

It's notable because now thousands of geeks are going to flock to the theater to see whether or not they can tell which bits were done in 1946 and which were done on Maya in 2003.

Sadly, yes, they will even though it means doing business with the corporation that was a strong proponent of the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998. This bill became law and stifles our ability to build on Disney's work like Disney built on Buster Keaton's Steamboat Bill Jr.. We can't share and preserve countless other copyrighted works that aren't selling but are disappearing because of an overly long term of copyright. I wonder how many Slashdot readers have too short a memory to act effectively in defiance of the laws they rail against in other threads.

I'll be glad to do business with Disney when they advocate for a more reasonable copyright regime, one in which society's need to share and build on copyrighted works is balanced with publisher's need to make money.

Re:Mod Parent up for being funny.

[whatch durrin]

Amen!

That's all.