The Sculptor's Nightmare

Name: The Sculptor's Nightmare
Director: Wallace McCutcheon Sr.
Genre: Comedy, Animation
Released: 1908-05-06
Duration: 9 min
Rating: 4.3
Cast: Florence Auer, Edward Dillon, D.W. Griffith, Harry Solter, Anthony O'Sullivan

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The Sculptor's Nightmare

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Released

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American Mutoscope & Biograph

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1908-05-06

The Sculptor's Nightmare

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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Florence Auer

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Edward Dillon

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D.W. Griffith

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Harry Solter

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Anthony O'Sullivan