Summary
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 hs 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.
Created/Published
United States :
American Mutoscope and Biograph Company;
1908.
Notes
Copyright:
American Mutoscope &
Biograph Co.; 4May1908; H110169.
Camera,
G.W. Bitzer.
Mack Sennett,
Harry Solter,
Anthony O'Sullivan,
Eddie Dillon,
D.W. Griffith.
Filmed on
April 18 and 20, 1908, in the
New York City studio.
Subjects
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.
Presidents--United States--Election--1908.
Political clubs.
Sculptors.
Busts.
Nightmares.
Political--Animation--Short.
Parody--Animation--Short.
Related Names
McCutcheon,
Wallace, direction.
Bitzer,
G. W., 1872-1944, camera.
Sennett,
Mack, 1880-1960, cast.
Solter,
Harry, cast.
O'
Sullivan,
Tony, d.
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)
Digital ID
trmp 4144s1 4144s2 4144s3
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mbrsmi/trmp.4144
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