Didn’t Walt also have an obsession with Dolores del Rio?
When in St. Petersburg (Florida not Russia) I can heartily recommend the Dali Museum.
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.