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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.
Yet again, Léontine ignores the well-meaning advice of her mother. She attempts to hang her downstairs neighbor (played by a man in drag) with a rope, which she then uses to attach a bookseller’s kiosk to a moving vehicle. A vengeful mob and the police gather, as they do, but she entraps them on a scaffolding by removing the rope ladder.
A French silent film serial which follows the exploits of the archvillain Fantômas, who commits crimes while eluding Inspector Juve’s tireless persecution.
In a last gasp effort to school Titine in domestic labor, her parents entrust her with housesitting. She executes her obligations with catastrophic aplomb, shattering all the dishes in the gesture of cleaning them. She manages to flood and incinerate her entire home simultaneously. In a futile effort to find her baby brother and pet dog, she inherits a horde of stray canines and orphaned babies.
Over-stimulated by boxing lessons, Gavroche brings a lion home to spar with, triggering an all-out assault on public order.
Rosalie and LĂ©ontine go to the theater and are swept away by big emotions.
A short film starring Clément Mégé.
Rosalie moves into an apartment building, disturbing her neighbors above, below, and next to her.
A French silent film serial which follows the exploits of the archvillain FantĂ´mas, who commits crimes while eluding Inspector Juve's tireless persecution.
Clément Mégé is the local post man. Unlike the services that promise that neither rain nor sleet nor snow, nor gloom of darkest night will stay these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds he's more interested in lightening his burdens by tearing up mail and kissing pretty women than seeing the letters get through to where they're supposed to.
Calino disrupts the clocks. Shot of him dejected in front of a lowered iron shutter on which is displayed: "Closed on Sundays".
Léontine helps her pal Rosalie (Sarah Duhamel) race against time to clean up a house after Rosalie’s boss, Baron von Hummen, announces that he and Madame will return home earlier than planned. They recruit workers and poach resources from a nearby construction site. As we see, it takes a village to tidy a house on short notice (or at least it should!), but there’s a limit to the capacities of even collective domestic labor. Accelerated productivity gives way to sheer physical anarchy and irreversible destruction. Dirt and debris pervade every surface—furniture and skin alike—leading to several unfortunate blackening gags.
In a playful, reflexive take on the familiar “last-minute rescue” formula, a woman and her housekeeper left alone at home miss-read shadows projected from the street outside and fear a violent assault. Male police officers dispatched to rescue them correctly diagnose the situation, with hilarious results, including a late gender reveal. Notable for its early use of triptych.
The distressing plight of a young man who, dissatisfied with the food his wife serves him, eats horse meat, develops various equine mannerisms, and eventually lands in the hospital.
Bigorno gets a visit to his seaside estate from a traveler, who brings a monkey and bric-a-brac for his wife and mother-in-law, and some opium for him.
Bill is wandering along the street vainly endeavoring to attract the attention of a lady, when he is brought to a halt by a large notice, "Bal Masque." The lady enters and Bill follows, but he is rudely ejected, as only persons in fancy dress costume are admitted. So Bill hies to a second hand costumer, who fits him up.
But when he refuses to tip the assistants at the fancier's sales room they lay a scheme for revenge, which takes the form of a practical joke and supplies the onlookers with much merriment.
Clément Mégé borrows the shotgun of a sleeping hunter and goes after big game, like ducks and a cat. Soon he gets caught up being chased by some policemen.
Anarchic physical destruction
To fool his uncle, he has his friends dress up as sculptures in his studio.
