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.
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Director: Stephen ThomasWriters: Josef Čapek, Karel Čapek
Wilfrid Grantham
as The Lepidopterist / First Snail
Edmund Willard
as The Tranp
Pamela Standish
as The Chrysalis
Frank Birch
as Mr. Beetle / Commander of the Yellows
Maire O'Neill
as Mrs. Beetle / Philanthropist
Charles Peters
as Robber Beetle/Journalist
Rupert Bruce Lockhart
as The Ichneumon Fly / Inventor
Sheila Kay
as The Larva
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