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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.
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Copyright: American Mutoscope & Biograph Co.; 4May1908; H110169.
Camera, G.W. Bitzer.
Mack Sennett, Harry Solter, Anthony O'Sullivan, Eddie Dillon, D.W. Griffith.
Duration: 4:54 (part 1), 3:59 (part 2), 2:07 (part 3) at 16 fps.
Filmed on April 18 and 20, 1908, in the New York City studio.
Sources used: Copyright catalog, motion pictures, 1894-1912; Niver, K.R. Early motion pictures, 1985; American Film Institute catalog, film beginnings, 1893-1910, A.13830.
Received: n.d.; ref print and dupe neg; preservation; Paper Print Collection.
Received: 5/4/1908; paper pos; copyright deposit; Paper Print Collection.
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)
MEDIUM
1 reel of 1 (266 ft.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm. ref print.
1 reel of 1 (266 ft.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm. dupe neg.
1 roll (ca. 700 ft.) : si., b&w ; 35 mm. paper pos.
CALL NUMBER
FLA 5692 (ref print)
FRA 2530 (dupe neg)
LC 2741 (paper pos)
REPOSITORY
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
DIGITAL ID
trmp 4144s1 4144s2 4144s3 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mbrsmi/trmp.4144
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