Movies like The Sculptor's Nightmare (1908)

Name: The Sculptor's Nightmare
Director: Wallace McCutcheon Sr.
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Short
Released: 1908-05-06
Duration: 9 Min
Rating: 5.2
Cast: Florence Auer, Edward Dillon, D.W. Griffith

The Sculptor's Nightmare (1908)

United States9Min

5.2 ( 155 Votes )

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.