Dream of a Rarebit Fiend (1906)

Directed by

Wallace McCutcheon, Sr., Edwin Stanton Porter

Genre

fantasy film, silent film

Country

United States

Runtime

6 min

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 81 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man eats too much Welsh rarebit before bed and has a bizarre dream. He floats out of his bed and flies through the air, encountering strange sights.

whimsicalsurrealplayfulold-fashionedinventivedreamlikelightheartedabsurd

What happens

Dream of a Rarebit Fiend is a 1906 silent trick film directed by Edwin S. Porter for Edison Manufacturing Company. It is a seven-minute live-action film adaptation of the comic strip Dream of the Rarebit Fiend by American cartoonist Winsor McCay. The film was marketed as using several special effects in which "some of the photographic 'stunts' have never been seen or attempted before." In 2015, the United States Library of Congress selected the film for preservation in the National Film Registry, finding it "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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