The history of "claymation" started in 1908 with "The Sculptors Nightmare".

At a political club, the members debate whose bust will replace that of Theodore Roosevelt.

In 1908 American Mutoscope and Biograph Company releases an innovative film directed by Wallace McCutcheon entitled “The Sculptors Nightmare”. The movie is known to be the first movie that used “Claymation” techniques.

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.