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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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.