Destino - [2003 by The Walt Disney Company]

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Destino is an animated short film released in 2003 by The Walt Disney Company. Destino is unique in that its production originally began in 1945, 58 years before its eventual completion. The project was originally a collaboration between Walt Disney and Spanish Surrealist painter Salvador Dalí, and features music written by Mexican songwriter Armando Dominguez and performed by Dora Luz. It was included in the Animation Show of Shows in 2003.

History

Destino (Spanish for destiny) was storyboarded by Disney studio artist John Hench and artist Salvador Dalí for eight months in late 1945 and 1946; however production ceased not long after. The Walt Disney Company, then Walt Disney Studios, was plagued by financial woes in the World War II era. Hench compiled a short animation test of about 17 seconds in the hopes of rekindling Disney's interest in the project, but the production was no longer deemed financially viable and put on indefinite hiatus.

In 1999, Walt Disney's nephew Roy E. Disney, while working on Fantasia 2000, unearthed the dormant project and decided to bring it back to life. Disney Studios France, the company's small Parisian production department, was brought on board to complete the project. The short was produced by Baker Bloodworth and directed by French animator Dominique Monfréy in his first directorial role. A team of approximately 25 animators deciphered Dalí and Hench's cryptic storyboards (with a little help from the journals of Dalí's wife Gala Dalí and guidance from Hench himself), and finished Destino's production. The end result is mostly traditional animation, including Hench's original footage, but it also contains some computer animation.

Description

The six-minute short follows the love story of Chronos and the ill-fated love he has for a mortal woman. The story continues as the woman dances through surreal scenery inspired by Dalí's paintings. There is no dialogue, but the soundtrack includes music by the Mexican composer Armando Dominguez. The 17 second original footage that is included in the finished product is the segment with the two tortoises (this original footage is referred to in Bette Midler's host sequence for The Steadfast Tin Soldier in Fantasia 2000, as an "idea that featured baseball as a metaphor for life").

Public screenings

Destino premiered on June 2, 2003 at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival in Annecy, France. The short film was very well received; it won many awards and was nominated for the 2003 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.Destino was released theatrically in a very limited release with the film Calendar Girls.

In 2005, the film was shown continuously as part of a major retrospective Dalí show at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, titledThe Dalí renaissance: new perspectives on his life and art after 1940.^[1]

The film was also shown as part of the exhibition Dalí & Film at Tate Modern from June to September 2007, as part of the Dalí exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art from October 2007 to January 2008; at an exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art called Dalí: Painting and Film from June to September 2008; also at an exhibit at the Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida in 2008. In mid-2009, it had exposure in Melbourne, Australia at the National Gallery of Victoria through the Dalí exhibition Liquid Desire, and from late 2009 through April 2010 at the Dayton Art Institute in Dayton, Ohio, in an exhibit entitled Dalí and Disney: The Art and Animation of Destino.

As of 2012, the film is featured in the "Dalí" exhibition at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, France.

Home video release

The Disney DVD "True-life adventure volume 3" has a trailer for Destino, and mentions a forthcoming DVD release. In 2007, the True-Life Adventure series was suspended and those titles previously announced were moved to the Walt Disney Treasures line. Destino was subsequently scheduled for release on November 11, 2008.

From the January 20, 2008 press release:

Destino began in 1946 as a collaboration between Walt Disney and the famed surrealist painter Salvador Dalí. A first-hand example of Disney's interest in avant-garde and experimental work in animation, Destino was to be awash with Dalí's iconic melting clocks, marching ants and floating eyeballs. However, Destino was not completed at that time. In 2003, it was rediscovered by Walt's nephew, Roy E. Disney, who took on the challenge of bringing the creation of these two great artists to fruition. In addition to the completed Destino, this exciting addition to the Walt Disney Treasures line also includes an all-new feature-length documentary that examines the surprising partnership between Dalí and Disney plus two new featurettes; "The Disney That Almost Was", an examination of the studio's unfinished projects; and "Encounters with Walt", which addresses the surprisingly diverse group of celebrities and artists who were attracted to Walt Disney's early work.

A June 2008 press release for the Walt Disney Treasures line revealed Destino was being excluded from a 2008 Treasures release. According to Treasures host Leonard Maltin, the film was still likely to see an eventual DVD release, yet not necessarily within the Treasures moniker.

Destino was made available as a special feature on the Fantasia & Fantasia 2000 Special Edition Blu-ray released on November 30, 2010.^[2]

Directed by	Dominique Monféry
Produced by	Baker Bloodworth Roy E. Disney
Written by	Salvador Dalí John Hench Donald W. Ernst
Music by	Armando Dominguez Music Adaptation: Michael Starobin
Edited by	Jessica Ambinder-Rojas
Production company	Disney Studios France
Distributed by	Walt Disney Pictures
Release dates	June 2, 2003(Annecy Animation Film Festival) December 19, 2003(United States)
Running time	7 minutes

Calimero versione jap (Opening)

Incredibile ma vero: la versione jap di Calimero ... 

Calimero è un personaggio dell'animazione pubblicitaria italiana, un pulcino piccolo e nero. Appare per la prima volta nel Carosello della società Mira Lanza: essendo caduto nella fuliggine si sporca e diventa nero e non viene più riconosciuto dalla madre. Vive qualche piccola avventura, nella quale rimane sempre colpito negativamente, ma grazie al detersivo pubblicizzato, Ava, torna ad essere bianco, lindo e contento.

Calimero appare per la prima volta in TV il 14 luglio 1963. Gli autori di questo personaggio sono: Nino, Toni Pagot e Ignazio Colnaghi (voce italiana), e la grafica è di Nino e Toni Pagot che ne detengono i diritti. È comparso originariamente nelle animazioni pubblicitarie create per la società di detersivi Mira Lanza in Carosello.

La notorietà di Calimero è molto elevata per tutti gli anni sessanta e almeno fino alla metà degli anni settanta, tanto da far entrare nel lessico collettivo sia il nome del personaggio, sia alcune frasi celebri come "Eh, che maniere! Qui tutti ce l'hanno con me perché io sono piccolo e nero... è un'ingiustizia però".

Oltre alle storie originali di Carosello, con questo personaggio sono stati realizzati 290 episodi a colori, doppiati in diverse lingue. In Giappone, poi, la Toei Doga con lo Studio Rever produsse una serie televisiva di 47 puntate tra il 1974 e il 1975, ed una seconda di 52 fra il 1992 e il 1993, in coproduzione con la RAI e le società Telescreen Japan, TV Tokyo e Mitsui;^[3] ancora oggi Calimero è un personaggio molto noto in Giappone come in Italia.

Il personaggio di Calimero e i comprimari della serie hanno avuto e hanno ancor oggi un ruolo in numerose altre attività promozionali e di merchandising oltre a quella originale, apparendo di volta in volta su articoli di abbigliamento e generi alimentari, accessori e prodotti scolastici, gadget, ecc.

Nel 2013 viene annunciata una serie tv dalla Alphanim da 104 episodi di 11 minuti ciascuno, e in Italia va in onda su Rai 2 a partire dal 25 marzo 2014 nel contenitore Cartoon Flakes.

http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calimero

Topo Gigio versione jap (Opening)

WOW! Topo Gigio versione jap ...

Topo Gigio è un pupazzo animato in moltoprene raffigurante un topo antropomorfo, creato in Italia per la televisione nel 1959 da Maria Perego.

La sua creatrice in un'intervista attribuì il suo enorme successo al fatto che esso fosse "il ritratto del candore, della fiducia in un mondo flagellato dai pericoli e dalle paure". Altri contribuirono fattivamente alla sua ideazione ed al suo successo, in particolare Federico Caldura, Guido Stagnaro e Peppino Mazzullo, sua voce storica. Ora il suo doppiatore è Davide Garbolino.

Il personaggio è caratterizzato da un forte romanticismo, innocenza pura e senso dell'umorismo, ricreando quella tipologia di effusioni proprie dei bambini desiderosi di tenerezza. Visivamente si presenta con le orecchie molto grandi, la faccia larga, i denti sporgenti, il colorito roseo, il corpo con sembianze di tipo umano, anche se di dimensioni ridotte.

Personaggi che hanno affiancato Gigio nelle sue storie erano i topi Ino, compagno di avventure, e Rosy Rosicchia, la sua fidanzatina. Suo antagonista nei cartoni animati era il gatto Megalo, Nelle favole raccontate con Gigio - pupazzo era il gatto Attila. Raramente sul piccolo schermo - ma ripetutamente evocato - era invece il "nonno Teodoro": tutte le volte infatti che Gigio enunciava un proverbio, lo faceva precedere da uno squillante "come diceva mio nonno Teodoroooo....". È famoso per la sua golosità nei confronti del formaggio e per il suo timore nei confronti dei gatti (memorabili sono le battute in cui definisce canzonacce quelle canzoni dove si citano i gatti cfr volevo un gatto nero, quarantaquattro gatti etc.). Pur essendo fidanzato con Rosy, lo si vede spesso in televisione quando dimostra di essere sensibile al fascino delle belle donne dello spettacolo presenti nelle trasmissioni in cui appare, ricercando il loro la figura materna oppure della fidanzata (per citarne alcune possiamo nominare Raffaella Carrà, Maria Teresa Ruta, Elisabetta Gardini, Heather Parisi, Rita Dalla Chiesa, Mara Venier e altre).

http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topo_Gigio

Gertie the Dinosaur: The Mother of all Cartoon Characters [1914]

The artist and cartoon pioneer Winsor McCay (1869?-1934) did not make the world’s first animated film. That distinction goes to Emile Cohl and his 76-second long Fantasmagorie (1908). But McKay, who was also the author of the popular weekly Little Nemo comic strips, made a contribution to cartoons that is arguably even more important.

Sweet, mischievous Gertie, with her ready tears, excitable nature, and complete inability to miss a chance to get herself in trouble, is widely credited as the first character created specifically for animation, and the first to demonstrate a personality all of her own. Mickey Mouse, Bugs Bunny, Bambi, even Wall-e… they all owe a debt to Gertie, the first of the line. One suspects the artist knew exactly what he was doing when he chose to draw her as an animal that is also our common ancestor.

The fetching brontosaurus may have been one of McCay’s most famous creations, but there was magic in every film he made. Be sure to check out How a Mosquito Operates (1912), The Sinking of the Lusitania (1921), and his brief but magnificent The Centaurs (1921). You can find them all in ourFree Movie collection.

From: openculture.com