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.

Genre:

Comedy, Animation

Duration:

9 min

Cast:

Florence Auer, Edward Dillon, D.W. Griffith

Quality:

HD

Director:

Wallace McCutcheon Sr.

Release:

1908

Country:

United States

Rating:

4.3