This short clip is from a 1941 newsreel, featuring scenes from a Salvador Dali-hosted event called 'Night in a Surreal Forest'. Held on September 2, 1941, in California, the dinner was a fundraiser for artists in exile during the Second World War. Notable invitees included Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, and Ginger Rogers. br br Dali planned the entire event, ordering 2000 pine trees, a wrecked car and 24 animal heads (among other things) to transform the ballroom of the Del Monte Lodge Hotel into a surrealist forest, and featured Gala laying on the "largest bed in Hollywood" all night, hand-feeding a tiger cub, who shared the bed with her. br br Meredith Etherington-Smith goes into great detail of this event in her book, 'The Persistence of Memory: A Biography of Dali'.