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The Sculptor's Nightmare (1908)

The Sculptor's Nightmare (1908)

Comedy Animation
Release Date: 1908, May 6
Directors: Wallace McCutcheon Sr.
Countries: United States of America
Production: American Mutoscope & Biograph
Cast: Florence Auer

Overview:

At a political club, the members debate whose bust will replace that of Theodore Roosevelt. Unable to agree, each goes to a sculptor's studio and bribes him to sculpt a bust of the individual favorite. Instead, the sculptor spends their fees on a dinner with his model during which he becomes so inebriated that he is taken to jail. There he has a nightmare, wherein three busts are created and animated from clay (through stop-motion photography) in the likenesses of Democrat William Jennings Bryan and Republicans Charles W. Fairbanks and William Howard Taft. Finally an animated bust of Roosevelt appears.