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- Three little chimney-sweepers fall down at the door of a farmhouse exhausted with fatigue and cold when the snow is falling. The most courageous of them knocks at the door to ask for help but the farmer sends them away and goes into the house quickly to sit down by the fire. Whilst these unfortunate creatures are lying almost lifeless in the snow, an angel appears in the sky who, with a gesture, transforms the scene which is divided into two parts. Here the children are in a comfortable rustic house whilst the rich man is outside, he in his turn buried in the snow which is still falling. Then it is that the children see passing before them as in a dream a fine collection of toys which forms the principal attraction of the picture. But the scene is ended and everything has disappeared. The children awake and are ragged as before, and going out they see the rich man lying in the snow; they run to his help and bring him into the house to restore him. The rich man, touched by so much kindness and ashamed of his miserliness begs their pardon.
- The scene depicts the interior of an inn. A young traveler arrives and asks the innkeeper a question, who answers in the negative. A second traveler arrives with a bag full of gold which he recklessly places in front of him. After having quenched his thirst, he leaves in an elegant sleigh which awaits him at the door. The innkeeper suddenly returns, takes off his apron, arms himself with a large cutlass and runs to wait for the traveler in the neighboring woods. He kills him and buries the corpse under the snow. Then he quietly returns to the inn where he counts with satisfaction all this gold. But he has a vision: a tribunal where he is accused and condemned. Coming to himself, he suddenly gets up and, in the terror of this vision, falls dead.
- A poor soldier of fortune has ended up in an inn to enjoy a rest that he must undoubtedly have earned well. But he had counted on it without the evil spirit that pursues him, because he cannot get into bed without finding himself immediately pushed out of it. After several attempts, each more unsuccessful than the last, he is suddenly swept away by a tremendous explosion which, after gutting the house, threw him panting into the middle of the rubble.
- An old beau calling on a demi-mondaine is closely followed by his own wile. The latter bursts into the room where after discovering the culprit hidden under a table cloth. She chases the two out and pursues them into the staircase hitting them with her umbrella.
- A sorcerer comes out of a box which a butler has brought in and puts him in; he breaks the box and makes a table with the pieces of tumblers which he takes out of his hat; he makes sleight of hand tricks and then changing all in an immense tumbler which he puts over himself and then disappears.
- Aladdin's Home: Death of Aladdin's father (Aladdin's father tells him, before dying, that there is a wonderful lamp that can bring its owner all possible happiness.) Aladdin goes to the Enchanter who must provide him with the means to conquer the lamp. The Enchanter's Cabin. Satan appears and claims the marvelous lamp for himself. (The enchanter bows and promises it to him). Arrival of Aladdin. He leaves with the Enchanter in search of the lamp. Arrival in the forest where the lamp garden is located. Aladdin descends into the underground. The Garden of the Lamp. Aladdin grabs the lamp. Return of Aladdin to the Enchanter who wants to steal the lamp from him. Aladdin's refusal. (The furious enchanter locks him in the underground). The Garden of the Lamp. (Aladdin, in despair, looks at the lamp and, seeing a small stain, he rubs it mechanically). Appearance of the Fairy who changes him into a young lord. Appearance of the Genies of the lamp.
- Monsieur and Madame, people of mature and respectable age, are sitting on a rock; they admire the beauties of the shore. But Monsieur is dashing, sea air, perhaps. While Madame only thinks about dozing off peacefully, Monsieur, to distract himself, takes his binocular and points it at the four corners of the horizon without managing to dispel his boredom when suddenly he sees people splashing, laughing, splashing all around them are charming young women who are taking their bath and enjoying it to their heart's content. Joining them and mingling with their joyful circle is a matter of an instant. But he had reckoned without his wife. The latter, as we think, cannot remain impassive before this very cheerful spectacle and it is in the very middle of the liquid element that she comes to look for her perfidious husband. We can guess how the domestic scene ends.
- A customer enters a barber's shop at five minutes to twelve. He is told that they close at noon, but the client is in a hurry and insists upon being attended to at once. So the barber in a very bad humor starts to shave him, but as 12 o'clock strikes, although he has but shaved half his face he kicks him out of the shop.
- Here, the silica is melted with the bases; there, the crushed and mixed components are calcined to expel the water then melted in the crucible. Loaded to the jaws, giving off glows and visible heat, the hearths devour shovelfuls of coal, constantly renewed by panting, almost naked men. Leaning over these braziers, blinded, deaf, with blurred eyes under burnt eyelashes, the glass-maker blows air into a mass of molten glass which swells, tapers, thins, is brought to the desired shape by rotational movements in the molds. His cheeks, distended with effort, fill disproportionately with air and empty with a thousand little folds like two deflating balloons. It seems that he too is part of the complicated tools, that he is an instrument among these instruments, something like a pump, without consciousness, without will, turning, blowing with all the gears in this fiery hell which makes one look up to seek the pure air, the free and healthy air of the great sky; but we see hovering up there a thick and dark cloud where all the small facets of the fluttering coal shimmer.
- Through the canals and rivers, we travel through an entire riverside city, crisscrossed by sampangs and canoes driven by paddle. Cool open-plan houses border the water where the foliage of the trees bathes. Wooden footbridges, thrown from one bank to the other, are crossed by a hardworking and active population and an equal bustle reigns on the banks and on the water.
- A man takes a seat outside a Café and orders a glass of milk, which is brought him. Whilst reading his paper a cat jumps on the table and being unable to get his head into the glass dips in his paw and licks off the milk. This it continues to do, until the man puts down his paper and sees what has happened: he is furious and calls the proprietor to see the thieving propensities of his cat.
- This scene, performed in a magnificent setting, represents a Chinese conjurer who, after transforming a Buddha into a pretty woman, makes her disappear in an enormous lantern. Then, taking this lantern again and making it smaller as he wishes, he multiplies it to the point of forming a superb garland which hangs from the ceiling. Then, we see a shower of confetti fall which he, using a fan, rises into a vase from which emerges the woman who appeared to us previously. Finally, after changing her into a man, he makes the latter disappear in turn.
- A coal man decides to have a bath. After he is in the bath, he turns on the taps. After a while, he sees that the bath will overflow and he tries to turn them off but can't. The room fills with water and his clothes float away. With his knee on a stool he tries to catch them but the stool tips over and he falls back, splashing and paddling.
- This cruel game, full of interest, takes place in a circular cage where the previously excited fighters are placed, after registration, weighing and cleaning of the lugs. The punters lean over the cage, follow the duel and place bets. The two roosters present observe each other, prepare for battle, then with a flash, they throw themselves at each other, aiming for the head. Then the attacks follow one another with surprising rapidity. Soon one of the adversaries weakens while the other exhausts and panics him with hasty pecks on the head and in the eyes. And it lasts ten minutes, a quarter of an hour, sometimes more. The vanquished falls stunned, blinded, bloodied while the other, glorious, sings victory.
- At the edge of a beach, a couple sits; the woman falls asleep. He, who has seen a pretty bather, hastens to wait for her at the end of the bath and to court her. A photographer takes pictures: 1. The gentleman who joins the lady after coming out of the water. 2. The gentleman who kisses the lady's hand. 3. He ties the strings of his shoe to her. 4. He throws himself at his feet. 5. He takes her by the waist. 6. He tries to look inside a cabin. The gentleman returns to his wife who is still sleeping. As they leave, they stop at a postcard seller. Madame comes across the series where her husband appears with the bather. She then delivers a direct volley to her unfaithful husband.
- A concierge is sweeping her doorstep; her work finished, she returns. Two kids take advantage of this to pull the bell cord; they then run away. The concierge leaves furious, especially when she sees the kids running. She shows them her fist then she goes inside. Another ring of the doorbell brings the exasperated concierge outside. A tourlourou arrives who, seeing his country at a window of the house, sends her kisses. Finally, he rings the doorbell; the janitor, believing that it is still the kids, comes out with a bucket of water and throws it at the soldier who finds himself literally flooded. Battle between the concierge and the soldier; both roll on the ground punching each other to the great joy of the tenants. A gendarme arrives with a town sergeant. They seize the fighters, take them to the post, followed by the tenants and the laughing kids.
- Madame is having a tete-a-tete with her lover. Everything is going on all right when suddenly they hear somebody ascending the stairs. It is the husband. What is to be done? The lover sees a bear-skin on the floor and slips under it in time. The husband enters and while he is kissing his wife the lover tries to get to the door, hidden under the bear-skin. As the husband sees his carpet moving by itself, he is overcome with fear and the lover avails himself of it to get out, leaving the skin on the landing. Still the courageous husband pulls himself together again and running to the door picks up the skin and carries it triumphantly to his wife who heartily laughs at the stupidity of her dear husband.
- In the bright sunshine of the arena, the actors in the drama present themselves: the quadrilla parades. At the head, the espada who will put the bull to death, then the banderilleros who will adorn the bull with bloody cockades. The beast then rushes, blind, panicked, towards the combatants, but 3 or 4 turns of "capa" and it is turned away from its opponent. The picador, lance in front, tries to withstand the shock of the furious beast. The horse soon collapses, its entrails torn apart by its horns. The banderillero, armed with his arrows, appears when the picador has sufficiently tired the bull. In the middle of the arena, bloodied by the lances of the picadors, wild-eyed, quivering and fierce, the beast plows the ground, among the disemboweled horses. The moment is solemn. The espada rushes towards the bull and plants his victorious sword between its two shoulder blades.
- An old swell enters a pastry cook's shop. Seduced by the charms of the pastry cook's wife, he indulges in familiarities which the latter accepts only because she does not wish to displease a customer. But the husband turns up, beating up cream, and seeing the old dude's ways, requests him to leave. The latter is so much disturbed that he takes the wrong door and goes out through the kitchen thinking he is going out of the shop. The pastry cook takes this opportunity of pouring the cream into the customer's hat which stood upon a table. The old swell returns to the shop, puts on his hat and receives the whole of its contents upon his head and shoulders. Blinded and completely astonished he knocks down a table as he runs away, but comes back again to complain of this unheard of treatment.
- A door keeper carries up to an artist's lodgings the receipt for his rent; he has a fearful toothache. The artist, badly off does not know how to get out of his dilemma, when one of his friends, happening to be there, helps him out by pretending to be a dentist. They make the man sit on a chair and the dentist operates with a pair of pincers, while the artist takes the receipt left on the table by the imprudent doorkeeper and puts in its place a blank paper. After having pulled out an enormous tooth, the so-called dentist blackens the face of the doorkeeper who retires after having warmly thanked his benefactor.
- Two acrobats are performing their customary exercises upon a tight rope. Two clowns succeed with difficulty in handing them a piano which they put in equilibrium on the rope. But as one of the acrobats tries to play it, the piano suddenly turns into a kitchen-range and themselves into cooks.
- On the outer boulevards, women stop a gentleman and make him offers; he resists their advances. The friends of these ladies come to the rescue and, seizing the unfortunate man, rob him and leave him in his underwear on the public highway. Arrival of the agents who take him to the station.
- Our operators accomplished true photographic feats, taking at short distances, various views of one of the most hideous and fearsome monsters of creation: the hippopotamus. The monster appears, skimming the surface of the water and diving in turn, while the hunters, pushing their skiff towards it, throw the harpoon, the blade of which bites into its leather. The game is won. The animal is skinned and its fat will provide an excellent treat for the natives, while its teeth, whose ivory is more beautiful than that of the elephant, are carefully collected.
- The wife gets up, runs to the clock and seeing the time, hurriedly awakens her husband. They will miss the train. In their hurry they cannot find their clothes, madam starts to put on her vest when it immediately changes to the husband's pants, the same happens to the husband. They quarrel and throw all the clothes upon the floor. During the struggle they both fall and upon rising again they are fully dressed, but as they go out, they discover that they are dressed in each others clothes. Another quarrel ensues, and they are again in their night garments. In desperation they run away followed by their clothes.
- First scene: The interior of the theater: The spectators have barely settled down when the fire breaks out. Panic invades the public. Everyone is trying to escape. The firefighters intervened and saved a few people. Second painting: The exterior facade: Ropes are thrown over the balustrade. Some panic and jump to the ground? Others, including many women, let themselves slide to the ground.
- In a tavern at the water's edge, a sportsman in a state of severe intoxication plays bowling with bottles. Kicked out of the establishment, he indulges in a thousand sporting ramblings, shuts the mouth of a blind beggar with pucks, aims his revolver at two flower pots on a balcony and makes them fall on the heads of two pedestrians. In the window of a bazaar, he pirouettes through hoops and demolishes the storefront. Finally, after a thousand other eccentricities, he climbs onto a roof and armed with a superb parachute, he throws himself into the void but fails miserably on a traveling stove.
- Old Hymen finds Cupid asleep. He takes advantage o the opportunity and steals his quiver. Very proud of his larceny and thinking that he will get his youth back, he calls a young and pretty maid and offers her his love, but she knows better and refuses. The old Hymen soon finds out that his treasure is useless for him and Cupid who arrives, tells him, "I was not asleep at all and I have seen you taking the quiver, but it is not sufficient to conquer love you must first of all have the arrow. Hymen is quite disconcerted and a handsome and vigorous youth comes, takes the arrow and pierces the heart of the pretty maid.
- A drunkard who has crossed the Pont-Neuf suddenly begins to insult the statue of Henry IV. Seeing that he doesn't answer him, he takes off his shoes and throws his shoes at him. To the drunkard's great amazement, Henry IV got off his horse, gave him a solid beating, then hoisted him onto the pedestal and went to hide. The drunkard finds nothing better than to ride the horse instead of the primitive statue. An agent arrives who, stunned to see our drunkard in place of Henry IV, climbs on the pedestal to dislodge the intruder, but he is suffocated by a liter of wine that the drunkard pours on his head.
- On the floor above, a few busy gypsies dig a hole through the floor in the hope of gathering a meal that will cost them nothing. Discovering the theft, the neighbors arm themselves with brooms and pots and head upstairs. They only find an army of rats who have arrived from the attic and against whom they fight desperately. The rain falling through an opening in the roof means that our gypsies are forced to swim like fish. But the police arrive and take away all these excited people.
- A gentleman is making love to a young girl and offers a bouquet of flowers when her mother, an old shrew, comes on the scene with a broom with which she strikes him. He takes the bouquet and throws it at her head, knocking her down. He then jumps through the window. She tries to do the same, when the inn is replaced by a monster who half swallows the old woman.
- A burglar breaks into a house and sees a splendid click on a mantel piece. He takes it and wraps it up, but looking at the mantel-piece, he sees that the clock has gone back there. What has he got in his bundle? He opens it and perceives the head of a policeman. - Frightened out of his wits, he wants to get out but he cannot find the exit, and the policeman who seems to come out of the ground arrests him.
- Visions of Art. An old dandy, followed by a coal merchant enters a hair-dresser's shop. The barbers, with the obsequious zeal that characterizes them, beg them to sit down and set about their work. When their task is finished and the customers rise, they realize with stupefaction that the garments have changed owners. In fact, the old swell sees with disgust that he has the coal merchants clothes on while on the contrary the latter is clothed in the swell's elegant garments. The old swell becomes red with anger and is going to seize the coal merchant when the waiters push him towards the back of the shop and separating them put everything in order again by exchanging the customer's heads. These, satisfied with having recovered their original shape, salute each other and go.
- While a superintendent of police is shaving himself, two policemen bring a prisoner into the police station. Out of temper at being disturbed at his delicate occupation, the superintendent receives the policemen coldly and requests them to leave him alone. Then, without noticing the individual he gets into the lock-up in order to wash his face. Our man avails himself of this opportunity to lock up the superintendent and run away. But as the policemen come back, he has just time to put on the superintendent's frock coat and sit down at his table. The policemen, who believe they are dealing with their chief, asks about the prisoner. The latter who does not want to be discovered, nods towards the lock-up. The policemen rush, our man avails himself of the opportunity to run away, taking on the way the superintendent's stick and hat. The policemen get the prisoner out in a somewhat brutal way and the superintendent has the greatest difficulty in being recognized again by his subordinates who wonder how they will be forgiven for their mistake.
- A traveler takes a room for the night in a hotel and is about to go to bed when he finds himself on the top of a sideboard which is changed instantly into a boat and the sea floods the chamber. - He gets frightened and falls head first into the water and endeavors to save himself by swimming, but instead of being in the water he is simply on the floor. - It was but a dream and he hopes that he may now enjoy a sleep. He again attempts to get into bed, but finds himself on the mantelpiece from which he is suddenly thrown, he gets up and rushes out of the room.
- Boufetout, a worthy emulator of Gargantua, after having devoured a fabulous meal, slips, to quench his thirst, under a car going to take a bath home and, opening the tap, absorbs all the contents of the tank. After that, he found himself a little unwell. He is taken to a surgeon who opens his stomach and frees him from heterogeneous objects, worthy of an ostrich stomach. After which, a relieved Mr. Boufetout prepares to accomplish new gastronomic exploits.
- A gentleman comes into a clothier's shop in order to buy a suit. He takes his clothes off to try one on, but no sooner has he done this than the costume returns to the clothes stand. He tries once more but the same thing happens again. Quite disconcerted, he pushes the dealer aside, when the latter takes a chair and breaks it over his head.
- In an artist's studio, a servant while dusting is bitten by a terracotta bust. Furious, he overturns the bust which breaks on the ground but all the pieces come back together to take their original shape. Terrified, he breaks it again and twice, the bust returns to its place on the base. To finish, he carries the subject under his arm and all the statues follow him.
- Mr. Pommadin is getting ready to go out. He looks handsome in front of his dressing table. His servant brings him his cane. She kneels, cleans his shoes and, while Mr. Pommadin leaves, she remains on her knees in despair to see that Pommadin does not understand that she loves him. At a market, Pommadin sees a young and pretty seller and begins to follow her. But the young woman has a date with a handsome non-commissioned officer. She leaves on the soldier's arm, laughing at Pommadin's crestfallen expression. At this moment, a person passes with their face hidden under an umbrella. Mr Pommadin follows her and approaches her a little further. Horror . he is a priest outraged by the attitude of the old handsome man. A little further on, a woman sits with her back turned to him in front of a flowerbed. Mr. Pommadin also sits down but when the lady turns her head, Pommadin runs away from such an ugly person. Mr. Pommadin, continuing his walk, arrives near the beach and begins to follow an elegant young woman but, at the turn of the beach huts, he makes a mistake and follows a... man with a beard. Finally, on a pontoon, he greets a beautiful girl leaning on the parapet who makes fun of him. He follows her, enters on her heels into a boat moored at the quay. He arrives at a cabin and there, is surrounded by sailors on board who make him take a sitz bath and abandon him to his sad fate. (scenario based on vision)
- A poor statue seller, having deposited his goods upon the parapet of a bridge, sits down to have some rest when a carpenter turns up carrying a piece of wood on his shoulders. Not knowing which way he must follow, he asks the merchant about it. The latter gives him the information, the carpenter awkwardly turns and knocks down all the statues with his wood. The angry merchant rushes upon the workman to compel him to pay for his goods, but the latter refuses to confess he is wrong, seizes the poor merchant, throws him into the river and goes. One of the statues which fell forward reconstitutes itself and, from the parapet, calls the others which all get up. Meanwhile the merchant, who has been able to escape from the danger to which the carpenter had exposed him realizes with stupefaction that his statues are back in their place and are all dancing.
- A young woman is talking to an officer. When her husband arrives unexpectedly she makes the officer dress up in women's clothes. When the husband comes in, the wife leaves. The husband sits alone with the officer dressed as a maid and wants to pinch his/her chin. The officer punches the husband and jumps out the window but is followed by the husband and the rest of the household. The husband catches up to the officer in the park, but comes out of the fight in a pitiable state.
- The boxers seize a missionary and hang him by the feet over a fire, afterwards setting fire to the mission station. A detachment of the allies comes on the scene and charge them with fixed bayonets, putting them to flight and killing a good many. Across a stream and cross over on their way to the town, escorting some boxer prisoners.
- 1- Prison. The prisons, or rather the dungeons, were deep underground passages, real tombs more than thirty feet underground. The unfortunate people, condemned to inhabit these places, six to eight in number, were lying on the damp ground in a stale atmosphere; they were deprived of clothes and shivering. Among these unfortunate people, women and children; how touching are these children who play and laugh alongside pain and death. Every day the executioners came to collect a few new victims to bring them before the court where they were led with lashes. 2- The torture gallery. In the middle of a vast rotunda, in a deep vault, is the chamber of torment, from the walls hang instruments of torture; there are easels, iron boots, nails of enormous size, ropes of all sizes. We descend into this infernal place via a multitude of small, winding staircases. The grand inquisitor makes his entrance followed by the apostolic notary and the familiars of the Holy Office, in accordance with article 18 of the code of the Inquisition which required that these two characters were always present to record the declarations of the accused. After a few summary executions such as the torture of the whip which was applied to any unfortunate person, without distinction of age or sex who made some groan heard, a heretic was locked up in the Nuremberg wardrobe, an iron box, lined internally with spikes. which penetrated all parts of the body of the victim who was locked there. Another patient is lying on a wooden bench, his feet caught in a sort of straitjacket, his hands tied to the foot of the bench in such a way as to bring the body back as if folded in on itself, so that it is impossible for him to move. make the slightest movement. A blazing brazier is then placed under the patient's feet and they are coated with oil. The executioner passes them with a hot iron, the action of the fire, excited by the presence of these fatty substances, becomes in a few minutes so penetrating that the skin splits, the flesh contracts and withdraws, leaving the nerves, bones exposed. tendons and bones. At a sign from the Grand Inquisitor, the executioners bring the accused stripped of his clothes. They want to make him confess to a crime he never committed; upon his refusal, the masked men seize the unfortunate man, tie his hands behind his back, then, grabbing the end of the rope which hangs above his head, tie it to his feet and kidnap the patient until at the height of the vault. After which, they tied a heavy stone to his hands. 3. The torture bench. The patient lies on a gutter-shaped bench, just wide enough to accommodate him and arranged so that the head is lower than the feet. At this moment, the torturers violently turn a wooden tourniquet which tightens the ropes to which the victim is bound. They insert a funnel into his mouth and pour water in small quantities, the victim, whose breathing becomes more and more difficult, makes incredible efforts to swallow this water and suck in a little air, but with each his efforts which necessarily give his whole body a painful convulsion, the executioners turn the tourniquet and the rope penetrates to the bones. 4. The Torment of the Wheel. Bound on a wooden drum, the tortured person, whose flesh is already bruised by this circular position, undergoes the most terrifying torture. The executioners, in fact, having taken care to place a fiery brazier underneath, turn the wheel at a speed cleverly calculated to graduate the degree of suffering. The body passes back and forth over this blaze which one of the helpers ardently fans with a bellows. Then the brazier is replaced by a bench furnished with spikes on which the unfortunate man turns and plows his flesh. 5. L'Auto-da-fé. On the widest facade of the square, in front of the palace occupied by the king and his retinue, the pyre is set up made of resinous wood, oily materials and straw so that combustion is faster. To the right of this pyre rises an amphitheater on the steps of which we see the armchair intended for the Grand Inquisitor. The condemned are brought in procession wearing a miter. After the sentence is read, they are tied to the stake and the executioner armed with a torch comes to set it on fire. Soon a thick, blackish smoke rises around the tortured, whose terrible agony begins. During this time, the priests play a verse from "De Profundis" or "Miserere", a mournful chant which mixes with human lamentations and the groans of the dying. And the people, kneeling, remain bowed under a deep impression of terror and pity.
- Two men visit a barber and one leaves with the other's hat. The man missing the hat goes out to find it but returns to the barber and finds the man who took it. The man leaves with his hat but it is knocked off his head and rolls away. It finally is crushed under the foot of someone on the street.
- The touching illusions of youth and the good heart of a little girl come together to bring happiness back to the family home. Faced with the despair of her parents after the loss of a very dear child, the poor little girl, all in tears, went out into the countryside; and seeing a large cabbage field, she began to look for a little brother there. Miracle . here she sees him naked and pink in the middle of a huge cabbage. It's the poor little one that an unfortunate mother, pressed by need, had to abandon there. The little one brings it home triumphantly and the father and mother, who were crying in front of the empty cradle, smile at the little being that Providence sent them so timely and in such a strange way.
- A boat enters the Saint Lawrence which gradually narrows to the lakes. The Niagara, from 500 to more than 3000 meters wide, arrives via rapids at its famous falls. The impetuosity of the current and the roughness of the rock pulverize the water into a bubbling foam. The boat falls with a roll of thunder, plunges into a gorge between two straight and high walls where the deep river undulates violently, then descends while whirling in the famous whirlpool.
- Whilst a man is whitewashing a wall a stone. breaker is melting tar in a boiler, Up comes a youngster who, unknown to the workmen, puts the whitewash bucket in the place of the tar bucket, then runs off, Unsuspectingly, the man dips his brush into the tar and continues to daub the wall, As soon as he perceives this joke, he takes to task the stone-breaker whom he believes is the author of the trick, and after having exchanged some hard blows, they place their buckets upside down on each others heads.
- Mr. Lambin wakes up with a start, glances at the clock: sadly, it's eleven o'clock and he has an appointment at noon with his friends, where he is invited for lunch. Mr. Lambin dresses hastily, goes out hastily while looking at his watch and accidentally comes across a dog shearer whom he knocks over without apologizing: he has plenty of time, in a hurry as he is. With that, the shearer, followed by his poodle, runs after him, insulting him. But Mr. Lambin has no ears, he is deaf, he is blind, he rushes by, overturning everything in his path and followed by a growing and vociferous crowd. Meanwhile, the couple are languishing over the burnt and already cold roast: "Let's get started," they say, "that'll make it happen." He arrives, in fact, as they were folding their napkins, enters in a gust of wind, followed by his numerous victims: shearer, elegant lady, fish seller, peddler, trot followed by an old handsome man, etc. Drama and eventful chase down the stairs, after which Mr. Lambin, gathering together the reliefs of the feast, conscientiously strives to make up for lost time.
- The night watchman makes his rounds in the galleries of the castle; he has just crossed the weapons room where the armor and portraits of ancestors are stored. Taken by sleep and influenced by this environment full of memories, he begins to dream of things of the past. The portraits come to life, the subjects multiply and perform a military parade. These characters disappear, reappear, come and go like ghosts, their swords cross, the blades become incandescent, finally everything disappears, except a mysterious couple whose vision persists until they wake up. He wants to grab it, but the dream fades and our man realizes that he was the toy of a hallucination and continues his rounds.
- After killing Cassandre to steal her treasure, Pierrot tries to bury the corpse under a pile of manure, but he cannot succeed. Death pursues him, he sees it everywhere. The bag of crowns that he wants to seize, the dial of the clock, the family portraits, everything turns into a skull. He wants to open a cupboard, it is again the specter of the victim that appears to him, he flees, it is a gendarme waiting for him at the door. The garden itself was transformed into a cemetery. Distraught, mad, he falls. Immediately, his visions disappear and everything returns to normal.
- Officers chase thieves to roof of house; one of them, mishandled by one of the burglars, slips from the roof and clings desperately to the gutter, but another burglar arrives who makes him let go by hitting his fingers with his heel. The agent falls into the void. Arrest of the gang.