Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend: Bug Vaudeville

1921 Fantasy Animation 12 minutes Directed by Winsor McCay

About Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend: Bug Vaudeville

A woman gives a hobo a piece of cheesecake. He sleeps and dreams a vaudeville bill performed by insects: a grasshopper juggling an ant, a dancing daddy longlegs, and other bug acts laid out for him alone.

Cast & crew

Winsor McCay Director

More about Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend: Bug Vaudeville

Winsor McCay and Bob McCay animated it in 1921 from the Rarebit Fiend strip. The dream starts from cheesecake rather than from the usual rarebit.

Themes

A meal and a dream
Insects on a vaudeville stage
cheesecake
hobo
grasshopper
daddy longlegs
vaudeville
animation

Notes

The audience is one sleeping hobo.
The acts are insects, not people in costume.
It was released the same year as The Pet.

Scenes

A grasshopper juggles an ant for the sleeping hobo.

Influenced by

Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend (comic strip)

Also available

Internet Archive (silent-dreams-of-the-rarebit-fiend-bug-vaudeville)