Winsor McCay

Dream of a Rarebit Fiend (1906)

19067:25theatrical shortUnattributeddir. Wallace McCutcheon, Sr., Edwin Stanton Porter
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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."

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Dream of a Rarebit Fiend dates from 1906, produced by Unattributed, part of the Winsor McCay series.

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