(The Sculptor's Nightmare)

Content: 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.

Countries:

United States of America

Genres:

Comedy,

Animation

Runtime:

9 minutes

Year:

1908

Directors:

Wallace McCutcheon Sr.

Production companies:

American Mutoscope and Biograph Company

Actors:

Model

Crews:

Director

Cinematography