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''Dream of a Rarebit Fiend'' is a 7-minute 1906 film directed by Edwin S. Porter, based on Creator/WinsorMcCay's comic strip ''Dream of the Rarebit Fiend''.

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''Dream of a Rarebit Fiend'' is a 7-minute 1906 film directed by Edwin S. Porter, based on Creator/WinsorMcCay's comic strip ''Dream of the Rarebit Fiend''.''ComicStrip/DreamOfTheRarebitFiend''.
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[[caption-width-right:350:One heck of a hangover.]]
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''Film/Dream of a Rarebit Fiend'' is a 7-minute 1906 film directed by Edwin S. Porter, based on Creator/WinsorMcCay's comic strip ''Dream of the Rarebit Fiend''.

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''Film/Dream ''Dream of a Rarebit Fiend'' is a 7-minute 1906 film directed by Edwin S. Porter, based on Creator/WinsorMcCay's comic strip ''Dream of the Rarebit Fiend''.
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''Film/Dream of a Rarebit Fiend'' is a 7-minute 1906 film directed by Edwin S. Porter, based on Creator/WinsorMcKay's comic strip ''Dream of the Rarebit Fiend''.

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''Film/Dream of a Rarebit Fiend'' is a 7-minute 1906 film directed by Edwin S. Porter, based on Creator/WinsorMcKay's Creator/WinsorMcCay's comic strip ''Dream of the Rarebit Fiend''.
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''Film/Dream of a Rarebit Fiend'' is a 7-minute 1906 film directed by Edwin S. Porter, based on Creator/WinsorMcKay's comic strip ''Dream of the Rarebit Fiend''.

A man at a restaurant makes a pig of himself gorging on [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_rarebit Welsh rarebit]], a cheese-and-toast dish that [[NonIndicativeName does not include rabbit]]. The man staggers out of the restaurant, and soon begins to hallucinate, staggering down the street as the world spins around him, finally clinging for dear life to a lamppost. After being helped home the man collapses into bed, but then has an elaborate dream in which all his furniture marches away and devilish imps emerge from a floating Welsh rarebit chafing dish to poke at him. Finally the man's bed flies off into the sky, taking him on a wild ride over the city, before dropping him--back into bed, where he wakes up.

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* AcidRefluxNightmare: The man is severely impaired even before he makes it to bed, but after he falls asleep, he has a bizarre nightmare.
* AllJustADream: Or rather All Just An Acid Reflux Nightmare, as the man's dream ends with him plunging from a weather vane into his bed. He wakes up with everything back to normal, and the film ends.
* BigEater: The man sure does put away a lot of rarebit.
* ICantBelieveItsNotHeroin: Welsh rarebit. Cheese on toast with sauce. Hits the man like a ton of bricks, sending him home reeling like a drunkard before he falls into bed and has a bizarre dream.
* JabbaTableManners: The man makes a disgusting spectacle of himself at dinner, smearing his face with cheese and sauce, drinking sauce straight from the chafing dish with a ladle, spitting a drink across the room.
* JumpCut: A jarring cut from the man chowing down at a restaurant table to the man staggering out the front door of the restaurant.
* LiveActionAdaptation: The original comic strip was not serialized, but rather was a series of one-off gags in which people had bizarre dreams after eating Welsh rarebit.
* StopTrick: This effect, very common in the early motion picture era, is used to show the man's furniture disappearing.

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