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The Sculptor's Nightmare

(1908)

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.

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Original TitleThe Sculptor's Nightmare

Status Released

Release Information

  • 1908-05-06

Original LanguageUnknown

Runtime 00h 09m

Production CompaniesAmerican Mutoscope & Biograph

Genres

  • Comedy
  • Animation