The Sculptor's Nightmare
MovieTitle | The Sculptor's Nightmare |
User score | 4.3 |
Release date | May 6, 1908 |
Genre | Comedy, Animation |
Director | Wallace McCutcheon Sr. |
Production country | United States of America |
Production companies | American Mutoscope & Biograph |
Run time | 9 min. |
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.