Salvador Dalí created the dream sequence for Alfred Hitchcock's "Spellbound" – the new head of a mental asylum turns out not to be what he claims, causing no end of trouble for Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck. A repressed experience can directly trigger a neurosis. Dalí could illustrate that. That was 1945 and the next year Dalí worked with Walt Disney on the short film "Destino" – based on Mexican songwriter Armando Dominguez' song...
more »Salvador Dalí created the dream sequence for Alfred Hitchcock's "Spellbound" – the new head of a mental asylum turns out not to be what he claims, causing no end of trouble for Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck. A repressed experience can directly trigger a neurosis. Dalí could illustrate that. That was 1945 and the next year Dalí worked with Walt Disney on the short film "Destino" – based on Mexican songwriter Armando Dominguez' song "Destino" – but that went nowhere. Baker Bloodworth and Roy E. Disney completed that short in 2003 – dreamlike images of strange figures flying and walking around. Now that's just a curiosity. Still, Hollywood loved Salvador Dalí. Hollywood still loves Salvador Dalí. He's in the streets. These are his streets. ~ Monday, November 12, 2018
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