The Sculptor's Nightmare

Overview

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

May 6, 1908

Original language

English

Countries

United States of America

Production

American Mutoscope & Biograph,American Mutoscope and Biograph Company

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0000756