05644cgm a2200937 a 4500 11732905 20250606175734.2 mr bf dnnartnna|------ mr bf dnnbdtnna|------ cr b| |||||||| kh bo 990716s1908 xxu009 mceng 7 cbc orignew u ncip 19 y-movingim qm10 2012-04-23 qm22 2016-08-01 qm22 2016-09-02 LCAP batch update 2025-06-01-04:00: LCAPM-1033 99407360 H110169 U.S. Copyright Office 19080418 19080420 3804 N4 11732905 (DLC) 99407360 DLC DLC amim DLC FLA 5692 (viewing print) FRA 2530 (dupe neg pic) Box 0255A (paper pos) Box 5343A (paper pos, copy 2) The sculptor's nightmare / American Mutoscope and Biograph Company ; director, Wallace McCutcheon. United States. United States : American Mutoscope and Biograph Company; 1908. 1 video file (digital, MPEG-4) (ca. 9 min.) : si., b&w. viewing print 1 film reel of 1 (266 ft.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm. dupe neg pic 1 film reel of 1 (266 ft.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm. paper pos 1 roll of 1 (ca. 700 ft.) : b&w ; 35 mm. paper pos (copy 2) 1 roll of 1 (ca. 700 ft.) : b&w ; 35 mm. two-dimensional moving image tdi rdacontent projected g rdamedia film reel mr rdacarrier Copyright: American Mutoscope & Biograph Co.; 4May1908; H110169. Duration: 9:15 at 16 fps. End sequence lacking from digital file on loc.gov. DLC Biograph production no. 3415. Paper print shelf number (LC 2741) was changed when the paper prints were re-housed. DLC Complete digitial file for this title is available on-site. Contact reference librarian. DLC Sources used: Copyright catalog, motion pictures, 1894-1912; Niver, K. Early motion pictures, p. 290; American Film Institute catalog, film beginnings, 1893-1910, p. 955; Biograph production log, v. 2; Biograph bulletins, 1896-1908, p. 350, p. 448. Restricted: some video files available on-site only. Access by appointment. Camera, G.W. Bitzer. Mack Sennett, Harry Solter, Anthony O'Sullivan, Eddie Dillon, D.W. Griffith. Filmed on April 18 and 20, 1908, in Biograph's New York City studio. 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. The drunken sculptor arises from his cot to see the animated faces of the three politicians. The busts disappear and he falls on his cot, writhing in distress. While he is prone, another figure begins to appear: first the clay forms itself into a G.O.P. elephant, then a teddy bear, and finally, into the animated face of Teddy Roosevelt himself. The sculptor rises again, and is startled to see yet another apparition. It disappears and the sculptor collapses on his cot and is still. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as digital files (incomplete). Early motion pictures : the Paper Print Collection in the Library of Congress / by Kemp R. Niver. Library of Congress. 1985. 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. Sculptors Humor. Drinking of alcoholic beverages Humor. Nightmares Humor. Comedy films. lcgft Trick films. lcgft Stop-motion animation films. lcgft Live-action/animation films. lcgft Short films. lcgft Silent films. lcgft Fiction films. lcgft McCutcheon, Wallace, direction. Bitzer, G. W., 1872-1944, camera. Sennett, Mack, 1880-1960, cast. Solter, Harry L., 1874-1920, cast. O'Sullivan, Tony, -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) DLC The sculptor's nightmare (DLC) 52537 AVCMS Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA dcu Digital viewing copy ntscrm 00052537 https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mbrsmi/ntscrm.00052537 TE01 mi/roosevelt ammem nsr c-MP&TV FLA 5692 (ref print) gm MUMS VM File c-MP&TV FRA 2530 (dupe neg) gm MUMS VM File