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The Sculptor's Nightmare

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1908 · 9 min Comedy Animation
4.3 / 10 · TMDB

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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Year 1908
Country United States of America
Genre Comedy, Animation
Director Wallace McCutcheon Sr.
Runtime 9 min.
Rating TMDB: 4.3/10 (5 votes)

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The film constructs a satirical frame where political ambition meets human greed, relying on puppet animation that was groundbreaking for 1908.

What lingers after the viewing is a witty parody of an election race, where bribes replace policy and debates turn into a drunken nightmare. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Wallace McCutcheon Sr.

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