The Insect Play (1939)
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.
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Cast
- Wilfrid Grantham — The Lepidopterist / First Snail
- Edmund Willard — The Tranp
- Pamela Standish — The Chrysalis
- Frank Birch — Mr. Beetle / Commander of the Yellows
- Maire O'Neill — Mrs. Beetle / Philanthropist
- Charles Peters — Robber Beetle/Journalist
- Rupert Bruce Lockhart — The Ichneumon Fly / Inventor
- Sheila Kay — The Larva
- Leslie French — Mr. Cricket / Second Snail
- Wendy Toye — Mrs. Cricket
- Wilfred Franks — The Blind Ant Timekeeper
- Geoffrey Wincott — The Parasite
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