Salvador Dalí collaborated with Walt Disney on the animated short Destino.
The project began in 1945 when Dalí worked with Disney artists and developed visual ideas for a story about a woman named Dahlia and her impossible love for the god of time, Chronos. Dalí produced drawings and paintings, while Disney’s studio supplied animation expertise and production resources.
The project was not completed at the time. It was revived decades later by Disney animator John Hench and Roy E. Disney, and the finished short was released in 2003. Its imagery combines Dalí’s dreamlike transformations with the fluid movement and storytelling conventions of animation.
Destino is sometimes mistakenly described as a standard feature film. It is a short film, and its long production history makes it an unusual example of an unfinished mid-century collaboration completed by a later generation.