Ernest Bourbon

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...

Ernest Bourbon is introduced to a young lady, object matrimony. Unfortunately for him, he slips the ring on the other girl.

Ernest Bourbon, with his idiotic smile perpetually plastered on his face, invites the miners into his apartment, which they accidentally destroy....

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...

An early Gaumont short

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

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

While accompanying his lady to a fashionable casino, Onésime hears someone playing an overpowering waltz on a mandolin, and he starts dancing...

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...

Users of the postal service aren't very happy that Onésime spends his work time writing love letters to a lovely lady. Understandably, the...

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

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

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

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

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

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.

A French comedy short with Zigoto.

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

An early Gaumont short.

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

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

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

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,...

Onésime short

Onésime short

Rugby players play the game throughout the city streets.

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...

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

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

Ernest Bourbon discovers that a shower of gold coins fall from his donkey's hindquarters -- I've phrased that as politely as I can. Now rich, he...