The
sculptor's nightmare
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)
moving image
motion picture
two-dimensional moving image
Comedy films.
Trick films.
Stop-motion animation films.
Live-action/animation films.
Short films.
Silent films.
Fiction films.
xxu
monographic
United States
American Mutoscope and Biograph Company
1908
19080418
19080420
eng
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.
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.
Restricted: some video files available on-site only. Access by appointment.
American Mutoscope and Biograph Company ; director, Wallace McCutcheon.
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.
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.
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
FLA 5692 (viewing print)
FRA 2530 (dupe neg pic)
Box 0255A (paper pos)
Box 5343A (paper pos, copy 2)
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mbrsmi/ntscrm.00052537
The sculptor's nightmare
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