Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound
Dali was always fascinated with movies and the dreamlike qualities they could produce. While he did not create a lot of films, he paired with some of Hollywood's greatest during his formidable years. He made an animation for Walt Disney's Destino that did not get completed until 45 years after Dali finished his work on it, after financial woes forced both Disney and Dali to abandon the project in 1946.
In Alfred Hitchcock's psychological mystery thriller Spellbound, Dali was credited with directing a dream sequence of a mental patient for two doctors to decipher. The sequence shows psychoanalytic symbols—eyes, curtains, scissors, playing cards (some of them blank), a man with no face, a man falling off a building, a man hiding behind a chimney dropping a wheel, and wings. Hitchcock was primarily hand-off with this portion of the film, letting Dali do as he pleased. Sources on the set said that Dali did an amazing job, albeit a long one—the original dream sequence was over 20 minutes long, and had to be edited for time. Sadly, the edited footage of the entire uncut sequence is assumed to no longer exist.