Six months pass, during which time 10,000 cartoon drawings have been drawn and photographed.
Some comic business involving colossal piles of papers is followed by the long-awaited dinner.
McCay reveals a hand-drawn landscape on a large screen. Gertie, a brontosaur, emerges from a cave, eats a rock and a tree, and bows to the audience. McCay requests that she raise her right foot. A four-winged lizard passes overhead. Gertie drinks the lake.