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.
Released: May 29, 1939
Runtime: 90 minutes
Stars: Wilfrid Grantham, Edmund Willard, Pamela Standish, Frank Birch, Maire O'Neill, Charles Peters
Crew: Andrée Howard (Choreographer), Karel Čapek (Writer), Stephen Thomas (Producer), Clifford Bax (Adaptation), Stephen Thomas (Director), Frederic Austin (Music)
