After eating rarebit, a woman has a strange dream in which her husband converts their home into a flying machine to escape having to pay the exorbitant interest on the mortgage. It takes them around the world and to the moon.

Winsor McCay
United States

A single wedge of rarebit—sinister cheddar on toast—melts into the bloodstream like liquid usury, and suddenly the walls of domesticity sprout cathedral-high wings. Winsor McCay’s The Flying House (1921) is less an animated short than a feverish ledger of subconscious revolt, balancing its columns in the red ink of c...


Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.

Winsor McCay

Hal Roach
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" A single wedge of rarebit—sinister cheddar on toast—melts into the bloodstream like liquid usury, and suddenly the walls of domesticity sprout cathedral-high wings. Winsor McCay’s The Flying House (1921) is less an animated short than a feverish ledger of subconscious revolt, balancing its columns in the red ink of cosmic insolvency. From Parlor to Stratosphere: The Plot as Palimpsest The narrative, if one dares call it that, is a palimpsest: housewife gulps down the Welsh concoction, dreams..."
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