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Released
1908 · FILM

The Sculptor's Nightmare

Color
Black & White
Runtime
9 min
ComedyAnimation

Synopsis

At a political club, the members debate whose bust will replace that of Theodore Roosevelt. Unable to reach a consensus, each member visits a sculptor's studio and bribes him to create a bust of their preferred candidate. Instead, the sculptor spends the money on a dinner with his model, during which he becomes so intoxicated that he is arrested and taken to jail. While there, he has a nightmare in which three animated busts are created from clay, using 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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Principal cast & crew: 8

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Shot by G W Bitzer

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