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The Sculptor's Nightmare

May 6, 1908 · 9m
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Comedy
Animation

PLOT

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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CAST

Florence Auer
Model
Edward Dillon
D.W. Griffith
Harry Solter
Anthony O'Sullivan
Mack Sennett
Directed by Wallace McCutcheon Sr.

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Status
Released
Original language
EN
Budget
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Production
American Mutoscope and Biograph Company
Country
US
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