The Sculptor's Nightmare (1908) Short

Comedy, Short
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.
Director:
Wallace McCutcheon
Stars:
Florence Auer, Edward Dillon, D.W. Griffith
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truly, an ok animation

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The film was unsuccessful at predicting the 1908 election, but Teddy's cousin, FDR had three and then four terms, the only president to do so. This was because of FDR's immense popularity during World War II.

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Note: Si le le film a bien été réalisé pour le compte de la compagnie de Thomas Edison, il l a été par Wallace McCutcheon