Acting
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 he goes to Paris an aristocrat steps into a cinema and is shocked by something he sees on screen.
Onésime short
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.
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.
Onésime needs to take care of an infant and does everything he can to avoid that responsibility.
Much to his annoyance, Onésime's relatives arrive to stay with him, and the family resemblance is striking.
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.
While the costume maker Onésime is absent, his mannequins begin to play...
Not having enough money to pay his drink bill, Onésime sells his soul to the Devil.
Looking after his aunt and uncle's house when they're away, animal lover Onésime turns it into a hospital for sick animals.
When Onésime gets declared dead by drowning, the supposed-widow consults a private detective specialized in missing persons.
OneÌsime becomes enamoured of a girl and sends a messenger to her on a motorcycle.
His double behaves very badly, while the real Onésime suffers the consequences.
Ernest Bourbon gets a bust delivered. Eduoard Grissolet visits him and rhapsodizes over it. Then Bourbon is taken to the loony bin, where they perform some extreme slapstick on him. He escapes, heads home, crawls into bed. The police break in. They take him to an interrogation room and push him out a window.
Difficulties ensue when Calino and Onésime get married on the same day, in the same registry office.
When the train workers go on strike, Zigoto terrorizes the town in a hijacked locomotive.
An early Gaumont short
French parody western.
