Jean Durand

Based on a novel by José Pérez de Rozas. In Seville, Angel Caal, a Parisian businessman, escapes blindness after a car accident, thanks...

Early short comedy

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

Against a painted backdrop of palm trees, Clément Mégé accepts an Arab's offer of three Black wives out of a tent. He takes them...

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....

A woman enters a room with a man. She creates a duplicate of him and changes his personality by throwing his clothes from one man to the next.

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...

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

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

Just as the streets to hell, to hear it from the travelers, are paved with good intentions, the illustrious police officer Zigoto's brain is full of...

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.

Nadia de Hock breaks her engagement to another man because of her love to the marquis d'Areghi. She lives a life of pleasure until Areghi reveals he...

Nadia de Hock breaks her engagement to another man because of her love to the marquis d'Areghi. She lives a life of pleasure until Areghi reveals he...

An Indian maiden wishes to marry her lover, but her father refuses because he does not have the requisite bride price.

An old Gaumont movie.

A device using radio waves can make machines and people move from a distance.

Anarchy and madness result when a plague of rabbits overrun the country home of an unrepentant hunter, in this “day of the lepus” farce.

In the grip of passionate foreplay, Zigoto and his lover are oblivious to an escalating series of interruptions and catastrophes going on around...

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

A short Calino film.

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

Poor Eugénie! She's humpbacked and everyone wants to straighten her out, but when success finally comes, she's too tall not to cause...

The film begins with the Count giving an actress a necklace. However, after her performance, the valuable necklace is missing and so the actress goes...

A French comedy short with Zigoto.

One day, Calino has the bold and imprudent idea to follow a woman down the street. The woman leads him all the way to the traveling lion cage run by...

Calino goes politely around to three or four people from the bourgeois class, trying to sell them a lightning rod: but due to a factory defect, the...

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

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

For some time now, Sosthène, clerk at the Grand Laundromat of Papillon-sous-Bois, has been in love with Alphonsine, the girl who brings the...

The short by Jean Durand begins with his frequent character, Zigoto (Lucien Bataille) reading a boring book. So, instead he goes on an outing in his...

An early Gaumont short.

An early Gaumont short

A mine owner discovers a vein of gold but unfortunately dies. His wife doesn't want to sell the mine and so the forman decides to lock her up in a...

An early Gaumont short

An early Gaumont short.

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...

An early Gaumont short

Joe is about to be hung for his crimes but he's going to reveal the whole truth first.

Early Calino 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

Calino is left in charge of a railway station.

Onésime short

Rugby players play the game throughout the city streets.

A man, tired of being hit by his wife, finds an ad for a spiked vest to protect him - but will it protect others from him?

French parody western.

Pétronille, a maid, borrows one of her employer's dress to go out with her boyfriend Onésime but the outfit is ruined during the...

Based on a novel by José Pérez de Rozas. In Seville, Angel Caal, a Parisian businessman, escapes blindness after a car accident, thanks...

There is one joke in this slapstick from Jean Durand's comedy unit at Gaumont: Calino wants to win a boxing match, and decides that he needs to...

Calino decides to take a boarder. The gentleman turns out to be a huntsman. All goes well until pay day when the roomer refuses to get out of bed to...

When he was a child, François Gérard got to know Antiope, a little foreigner, in a Paris park. As an adult, he sees her again in her...

Lucien Bataille finds himself hired as a secretary to an elderly man. His principal duty is to make sure that the man's niece, Berthe Dagmar, doesn't...

Lucien Bataille is hired as security for the department store, and proceeds to wreck much of it to keep anyone from from stealing anything.

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...

Julius wants to marry Nelly, but her uncle forbids that. An attempt to court her failed, but the second attempt with the help of an aircraft might...

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

Henri and Pierre, railroad engineers, are both in love with Jeanne. When Pierre refuses to give her up, a fight breaks out in the engine, imperiling...

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