Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend: The Pet
About Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend: The Pet
A man eats a Welsh rarebit and dreams that his wife has taken in a small animal. The pet drinks its milk, eats the house cat, then the furniture, then rat poison, then passing vehicles, and keeps growing.
Cast & crew
More about Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend: The Pet
Winsor McCay directed, with his son Bob McCay. It is one of the 1921 animated shorts drawn from McCay's comic strip Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend.
Themes
Notes
- The dream is blamed on the rarebit, as in the comic.
- The pet's menu runs from milk to a cat to trucks.
- Bob McCay worked on the animation with his father.
Scenes
- The dreamed pet swallows the cat, the furniture, and then the traffic.
Influenced by
- Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend (comic strip)
Also available
- Internet Archive (silent-dreams-of-the-rarebit-fiend-the-pet)
