Employees at the Disney studio in its golden period were allowed to
take without cost original animation art cels and sometimes other
types of artwork, posters and so on. Jack Dunham, a former animator
and management employee told me of the time he went to the designated
room and found quite a lot of original drawings and sketches by
Salvador Dali. Dali had been working on a film at the studio at the
personal invitation of Walt Disney soon after World War Two. He did
not personally complete the film and here was a lot of his artwork.
Being an admirer of Dali's talent he took with him all that he could
and kept it in his home for about ten years. One day he was moving to
another house. His possessions were in part piled up outside the house
he was vacating, waiting for the moving van to arrive. The weekly
garbage truck arrived first. Though efforts were made to find and get
back the artwork, they were unsuccessful.
Petersburg, Florida. On one of my visits there I arranged to go to
their archives to research his Disney film. All that they have are
reproductions of the original art, storyboards by John Hench and the
like that survived in the Disney Archives. The film, DESTINO, was
revived and completed by Hench and others in 2003, winning various
awards and getting an Academy Award nomination.
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