The Sculptor's Nightmare

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.

• Release date
• May 6, 1908
• Runtime
• 9 min
• Genres
• Comedy, Animation
• Director
• Wallace McCutcheon Sr.

Cast

Florence Auer Model Edward Dillon D.W. Griffith Harry Solter

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Anthony O'Sullivan Mack Sennett