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Walt Disney’s Little Known Obsession With Salvador Dali Comes To SF, Reveals Mysterious Side...
CBS San Francisco ^
| June 16, 2015
Posted on 06/17/2015 7:41:22 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Walt Disney’s Little Known Obsession With Salvador Dali Comes To SF, Reveals Mysterious Side Of Disneyland’s Creator
It turns out the man behind Mickey Mouse liked quirky cats.
Besides his love of wholesome entertainment, Walt Disney also had an appreciation for the eccentric that led to a short-lived partnership and decades-long friendship with surrealistic artist Salvador Dali.
Although their styles and personalities were dramatically different, Disney and Dali shared a fascination with the fantastic. They brought their vivid imaginations together shortly after World War II to work on an animated feature called “Destino,” which wasn’t completed until long after their deaths.
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TOPICS: Arts/Photography; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: art; dali; disney; salvadordali; waltdisney
To: nickcarraway
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06/17/2015 7:51:59 PM PDT
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lapsus calami
(What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
To: nickcarraway
Didn’t Walt also have an obsession with Dolores del Rio?
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posted on
06/17/2015 7:56:42 PM PDT
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Theodore R.
(Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
To: nickcarraway
When in St. Petersburg (Florida not Russia) I can heartily recommend the Dali Museum.
To: Theodore R.
S. and my family were fairly closely and personally intertwined. The degree to which he is compared to men like Da Vinci and even the comparatively tiny Disney (a giant, to be sure) is a sign of the sickness of the times. Dali was a fake, is the ideal hero for a shallow, silly, self-obsessed, Novyi Lef art world.
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posted on
06/17/2015 8:03:26 PM PDT
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golux
To: golux
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posted on
06/17/2015 8:06:58 PM PDT
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golux
To: golux
Local I know studied ‘under him’. He had to perform sexual acts to stay a student.
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posted on
06/17/2015 8:14:32 PM PDT
by
RushIsMyTeddyBear
(The White House is now known as "Casa Blanca".)
To: Sherman Logan
Mr. Mercat and I went there last February. It was a religious experience. I love his work.
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posted on
06/17/2015 8:14:43 PM PDT
by
Mercat
(Donate to Stop the HildeKraken PAC)
To: Theodore R.
Apparently Walt and Dolores as an item is hearsay.
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posted on
06/17/2015 8:51:17 PM PDT
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Theodore R.
(Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
To: nickcarraway
Disney's artistically experimental side was on display in his innovative "Silly Symphony" series in which creatures and objects moved fluidly and transformed in response to music. Although Dali's work showed similar visual effects, he lacked talent as a story-teller and his anarchism and weirdness made him a troublesome personality to work with.
Brother Roy, who ran the business side of the Disney operation, cannot have been pleased with Dali and would have carefully limited the company's financial exposure. It is hard to imagine that the reconstructed film short is anything other than an oddity -- and perhaps one that might best have been left unfinished.
To: Theodore R.
Fascism, Nazism, anti-Semitism, his own ego..........
To: nickcarraway
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06/26/2015 1:59:06 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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