The Sculptor's Nightmare (1908)

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.

Released

1908-05-06

Genres

Comedy, Animation

Runtime

9 min

Status

Released

Directed / written by

Wallace McCutcheon Sr.

TMDB rating

4.3/10 from 5 votes