The Sculptor's Nightmare

Name: The Sculptor's Nightmare
Genre: Comedy, Animation
Released: 1908
Duration: 9 min
Rating: 4.3

1908 · 9 min

Comedy · Animation

★ 4.3

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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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