MORE DALI... Life in film, with Director Luis Buñuel

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In Madrid, 1922, Dalí met both Federico Garcia Lorca and Luis Buñuel.  Dalí indulged his obsession with cinema and the entertainment industry through co-writing Luis Buñuel's 1929 film, Un Chien Andalou, and later, LAge d'Or.  The second film was banned for considerably erotic scenes, especially for the 1920's and 1930's.  Dalí was disappointed by this and several other projects in this industry, including the Alfred Hitchcok film, Spellbound,  whose Dalí-designed surrealist sets, though somewhat "nifty" for the time period, have always resembled just a little a toy diorama set.  However, Dalí continued to be intrigued by and to participate in the entertainment industry.

Luis Buñuel's 1929 film, Un Chien Andalou