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.

Genres

Cast

Edmund Willard

The Tranp

Maire O'Neill

Mrs. Beetle / Philanthropist

Leslie French

Mr. Cricket / Second Snail

Wendy Toye

Mrs. Cricket