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According to NPR, Disney plans to release it next year on a DVD with a documentary that tells the whole story. All I can say is WOW, I´m longing for it already!
Alone or as a piece of a Treasure Tin is not yet stated!

i've been wanting to see this short since the moment i've heard about it. So it's really cool to see it getting a dvd-release. I hope it's a part of a treasures release.

WOW, I just can't believe it!

Um, can someone tell me what this is? I have never heard of it myself!

It's a short film that Salvador Dali - the Spanish painter who did "The Persistence of Memory" (below) - worked on with Walt Disney in the '40s. The film was never completed, but recently, they used what existed on the film to put it together the best they could and have shown it in a few festivals. It was briefly mentioned in "Fantasia 2000."

now this really looks interesting. I would love to know more info on it if anyone would like to share. Thanks for info Luke!

Groovy! I've been hanging out to see this for ages....Apparently it was screened here once (in Melbourne, where it won a film festival prize apparently...).
I would buy this on any format, but a DVD with documentary would be very nice indeed.
Can't wait...

Ooh! For the ages, this is post #1111

poco wrote:now this really looks interesting. I would love to know more info on it if anyone would like to share. Thanks for info Luke!

Copy:
In 1946, Salvador Dali and Walt Disney planned a cartoon together. But the short subject Destino was left unfinished after Disney and its partner, RKO, decided it probably wouldn't make any money.

But as David D'Arcy reports, Walt Disney regretted the decision. And Disney's nephew Roy Disney, who now heads the company's animation division, decided to revive the project.

Destino is a six-minute film set to a Spanish song, devoid of dialogue and without a clear story line. It follows a dark-eyed ballerina on a journey among strange objects through a desert landscape in a dreamlike atmosphere.

For clips of the short, go here:
http://www.npr.org/display_pages/featur ... 62300.html

I was really expecting this to be AWOL on home video format until the "Platinum" re-release of Fantasia - I really thought Disney would use this as the carrot to get people to rebuy the title (being as I cannot see anything else that they can add to the existing Fantasia disc and supplements).

So good news indeed sadly, this sounds like a release with (percieved) limited appeal, and we all know what Disney does with their limited appeal releases (hint: Frank and Ollie and Walt: The Man Behind the Myth).

They see things that they think will have limited appeal, so sell them at limited locations. Thus they ensure sales will be limited. Another triumph for Disney marketing - deliberately limiting the amount of discs that will be sold (and therefore deliberately limiting their profit).

Do you think Destino will be released in cinemas?

Chernabog, paisano español, I don't think so. It'd be great if it was a short film shown right before Brother Bear or Home of the Range, but Disney doesn't do that as often as they used to. Pixar, in the other hand, always, which is awesome -I'm still laughing about FOR THE BIRDS-

quasi72 wrote:Chernabog, paisano español, I don't think so. It'd be great if it was a short film shown right before Brother Bear or Home of the Range, but Disney doesn't do that as often as they used to.

I was thinking precisely about that. But don't you think that Destino and a documentary are very little contents for a whole DVD?

Yes I´m almost sure that it NOT will be shown before a feature like Brother Bear or such stuff.
This is not intended for kids and their families in a theather.
It´s more like Disney´s unfameous 1998 shorts:
Redux Riding Hood and The Three Little Pigs

Maybe we will see them on the same DVD disc!

You can see two Destino clips here:

http://www.npr.org/display_pages/featur ... 62300.html

Enjoy them!

Chernabog wrote:
Yes I´m almost sure that it NOT will be shown before a feature like Brother Bear or such stuff
[...]
It´s more like Disney´s unfameous 1998 shorts:
Redux Riding Hood and The Three Little Pigs

Yeah, I was hoping to see some kind of short before BB. Being Mickey's 75th Anniversary, you'd think Disney could put out a new Mickey short theatrically in front of their latest 'masterpiece'. Or per the suggestion of 2099, show 'Steamboat Willie' at the head of BB. Do something to celebrate it dammit!!!

As far as the other shorts go, one of our Disney insiders on the forum indicated that a future Treasures set would include all the 'other' shorts that don't quite fit into the already defined categories

Trojan Mouse wrote:As I have posted before, Wave 4 is tentatively scheduled to included MMBW2; Mickey Mouse Club; Complete Pluto and A Compilation set that includes all of the random shorts that don't fit in normal series ie: Goliath II and Pigs is Pigs.

Oh,and thanks for the link Cherno! Even more excited now...

this is completely cool! i listened to the audio news from NPR, and it said that the only reason Roy decided to complete it is because, while going through the old vault stuff, he found out that in his contract, Salvador Dali said that disney would NOT own any of the art until the 6 minute picture was completed. Roy then took the news to the company's lawyers and said, "if we finish this, does the company get all of this art work?". the reply was, "only if it is a true effort can disney claim ownership to his work". apparently there's all this new salvador dali artwork in the disney vault that hasn't been seen by the public ( i mean concept design and all!), and this will become an extremely lucrative asset for the disney company now that this film is being completed and released.

i'm totally psyched about getting to see it, and can't wait for the dvd. is there any way to find out if this will be playing in local art theaters or its overall distribution? i know it's going out to the film festival circuit and all, but what about art houses?

disneyfella wrote:i know it's going out to the film festival circuit and all, but what about art houses?

Because it´s a "art" thing" Salavdor Dali you see!

i never heard of Desteno before. looks interesting though.