Ernest Bourbon

In an effort to secure a promised inheritance, Onésime invents a time machine that speeds up activity on earth, hyper-animates men and machines, and telescopes the human life-cycle.

When Onésime gets declared dead by drowning, the supposed-widow consults a private detective specialized in missing persons.

Onésime needs to take care of an infant and does everything he can to avoid that responsibility.

Users of the postal service aren't very happy that Onésime spends his work time writing love letters to a lovely lady. Understandably, the woman's husband doesn't take it very well either. To escape his wrath, Onésime can think of nothing better than slipping into the mail duct. And it's pneumatic.

Calino's uncle leaves him an inheritance, but only if he can uncover it hidden in his uncle's house. Detective Onésime is called in to help, and is soon tangling with some criminals after the treasure too.

Onésime came down and threw himself on stage, starting into the great aria at which he excelled. We must say, in respect for the truth, that he earned what critics calls "the estimated success": Onésime, who has the voice of a barrel salesman, sings like the pulley in a well.

Looking after his aunt and uncle's house when they're away, animal lover Onésime turns it into a hospital for sick animals.

His double behaves very badly, while the real Onésime suffers the consequences.

When he goes to Paris an aristocrat steps into a cinema and is shocked by something he sees on screen.

While the costume maker Onésime is absent, his mannequins begin to play...

Onésime short

Onésime short

Much to his annoyance, Onésime's relatives arrive to stay with him, and the family resemblance is striking.

Not having enough money to pay his drink bill, Onésime sells his soul to the Devil.

Onésime becomes enamoured of a girl and sends a messenger to her on a motorcycle.

When the train workers go on strike, Zigoto terrorizes the town in a hijacked locomotive.

When gold is discovered the first man there gets to stake his claim. Joe and another man race each other, which involves a thrilling episode on a train.

A Sioux tribe, led by their great chief, wreaks revenge on the palefaces by setting fire to a nearby village. But the cowboys fight back and mortally wound the great chief.

Difficulties ensue when Calino and Onésime get married on the same day, in the same registry office.

A couple buy what is advertised as a Rembrandt painting, but a wild slapstick chase ensues after a woman sits on it.

An early Gaumont short

While accompanying his lady to a fashionable casino, Onésime hears someone playing an overpowering waltz on a mandolin, and he starts dancing with his lady. Everyone, from the kitchen hands to the chef, dance until their out of breath.

A French comedy short with Zigoto.

Berthe Dagmar is kidnapped and Lucien Bataille is almost immediately on the case: examining the road with a magnifying glass, putting a straw hat on a horse, climbing a high gate, and duckwalking across a parapet. Nothing will stop him in his quest to.... well, whatever it is he's doing.