Ernest Bourbon

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.

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

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

An early Gaumont short.

Ernest Bourbon -- that's Onesime -- has decided to learn to box, for some reason, and also fight an American fighter who's touring France.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Rugby players play the game throughout the city streets.

Onésime short

Onésime short

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 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.

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

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

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

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

An early Gaumont short

A French comedy short with Zigoto.

Calino wants to live the cowboy life and travels to America to see the West.

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