A 1941 newsreel of the famous/notorious dizzy dinner given by Salvador Dali in the Bali Room of the Hotel Del Monte, Monterey, California. The event was titled A Surrealistic Night in a Surrealist Forest and it was a fund raiser to help European artists displaced by the Second World War.
Transcript: Mr. Salvador Dali gives a party. The Spanish painter of surrealism dresses Mrs. Dali in a unicorn’s head – just to start things off. As hostess, she presides from a red velvet bed. The party is a benefit for refugee artists, and costumes are supposed to represent the guests’ bad dreams. Artist Dali wears ear flaps, representing anatomy. A puzzled guest, Bob Hope, sees the fish course served in satin slippers… presumably the fish is sole. Soldier Jackie Coogan and Mr. Hope see the main course – the party is surrealism, but them frogs is real! [Frogs begin to jump off Bob Hope’s dinner plate…]
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