The Insect Play (29/05/1939)

Production : BBC

Synopsis

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.

Wilfrid Grantham

Edmund Willard

Pamela Standish

Frank Birch