Movie

The Insect Play

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A tramp falls asleep in the woods. He dreams of observing a range of insects that stand in for various human characteristics in terms of their lifestyle and morality: the flighty, vain butterfly, the obsequious, self-serving dung beetle, the ants, whose increasingly mechanized behavior leads to a militaristic society.

Cast

W Wilfrid Grantham The Lepidopterist / First Edmund Willard The Tranp P Pamela Standish The Chrysalis F Frank Birch Mr. Beetle / Commander of Maire O'Neill Mrs. Beetle / Philanthropi C Charles Peters Robber Beetle/Journalist