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 What happens when you put this

together with this?

Dali's Persistence of Memory

Well, you will get this: Destino.

 In 1945, at Jack Warner’s dinner party, the world-renowned surrealist painter Salvador Dali met the giant of the animation film industry, Walt Disney. Mutual admiration blossomed to friendship, and friendship led to co-production. A short animated film, Destino, was started in 1946, but 57 years would elapse before the production would see the light of day, or, in this case, the darkness of a movie theatre.

(i) Jack Warner of Warner Brother Studio 华纳兄弟.

Disney production went into financial difficulty in late 1946. The unfinished cut of Destino, together with Dali’s 22 paintings and a sketchy script went into storage and faded from memory.

In 1999, long after Dali and Disney had passed away, Roy E. Disney, cousin of Walt Disney, discovered the uncompleted film serendipitously.  A team of writers and animators were assembled to make sense of the paintings and story line and to bring the project to fruition. Another four year would pass before the film made its début on June 2, 2003, at the International Animated Film Festival in Annecy, France.

When I came across this story in late 2004, all I found on the Internet were a few still photos. (See below}

Youtube was not in existence yet. All I knew was that it was a surrealistic rendition of an ill-fated affair between a female mortal and the Greek deity Chronos, the keeper of time. A couple of days ago, quite out of the blue, I decided to check for updated information and hit pay dirt: a video of the show. Since you have no access to Youtube, the one below is from Youko. Enjoy it.

Yeti, Dec 8th, 2010.