The Sculptors Nightmare

Summary
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 hs 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.

Created/Published
United States : American Mutoscope and Biograph Company; 1908.

Notes
Copyright: American Mutoscope & Biograph Co.; 4May1908; H110169.
Camera, G.W. Bitzer.
Mack Sennett, Harry Solter, Anthony O'Sullivan, Eddie Dillon, D.W. Griffith.
Filmed on April 18 and 20, 1908, in the New York City studio.

Subjects
Bryan, William Jennings,--1860-1925--Caricatures and cartoons.
Fairbanks, Charles W.--(Charles Warren),--1852-1918--Caricatures and cartoons.
Taft, William H.--(William Howard),--1857-1930--Caricatures and cartoons.
Roosevelt, Theodore,--1858-1919--Caricatures and cartoons.
Presidents--United States--Election--1908.
Political clubs.
Sculptors.
Busts.
Nightmares.
Political--Animation--Short.
Parody--Animation--Short.

Related Names
McCutcheon, Wallace, direction.
Bitzer, G. W., 1872-1944, camera.
Sennett, Mack, 1880-1960, cast.
Solter, Harry, cast.
O'Sullivan, Tony, d. 1920, cast.
Dillon, Edward, 1880-1933, cast.
Griffith, D. W. (David Wark), 1875-1948, cast.
American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.
Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)

Digital ID
trmp 4144s1 4144s2 4144s3 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mbrsmi/trmp.4144

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