The Sculptor's Nightmare(1908)

Name: The Sculptor's Nightmare
Director: Wallace McCutcheon Sr.
Genre: Comedy, Animation
Released: 1908-01-01
Duration: 9 min
Cast: Florence Auer, Edward Dillon, D.W. Griffith, Harry Solter, Anthony O'Sullivan

Florence Auer Edward Dillon D.W. Griffith Harry Solter Anthony O'Sullivan

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.