Ernest Servaès

La tenacité de Polycarpe

Ernest Servaès

Charles Servaès

Polycarpe -- that's Charles Servaes -- encounters a painter in a museum. He strikes a funny pose and the painter decides he wants to paint that picture. However a succession of obstacles get in their way.

Mireille

Ernest Servaès

Angèle Pornot, Carlo Berthosa

La paresse de Polycarpe

Ernest Servaès

Charles Servaès

Polycarpe wants to sleep, but the woman of the house beats him awake. When he falls back asleep, his shoes tie themselves, as does his cravat. Indeed, everything works for him when he sleeps.

Polycarpe en villégiature

Ernest Servaès

Charles Servaès

Charles Servaes decides it's time to get out of the city, so he ties an abandoned bath tub to a truck and lets it tow him to the seaside. Once there, he spends his time talking to the camera with a self-satisfied smirk and annoying the people around him until the police carry him and his bath tub to the pokey.

La permission de Polycarpe

Ernest Servaès

Charles Servaès

Polycarpe is in the cavalry in this one. He gets a date with the hefty young woman who seems to work in the dungeon of the barracks. However, while another soldier makes time with his girl, Polycarpe can't seem to get off base for one reason or another.

La trouvaille de Polycarpe

Ernest Servaès

Charles Servaès

Charles Servaes finds a coin on the ground and takes possession. When he tries to use it to pay for his cab ride, the cabbie says it's counterfeit. Sorry! I've nothing else, being a comic slapstick bum, indicates Servaes, and goes on his way to not pay a succession of people.

Arthème avale sa clarinette

Ernest Servaès

Ernest Servaès

Arthème loves playing the clarinet. He plays it in the streets, in the park, in the streetcar (at least when he does not miss it!). When he unfortunately walks under a piano clumsy removers are hauling, the heavy instrument falls down on him and he swallows his clarinet. A lot of people try to extirpate the protruding instrument but they all fail. Three farriers finally succeed in making him return to his former self.

Arthème Dupin échappe encore

Ernest Servaès

Ernest Servaès

Short chase comedy from a series with the character Arthème Dupin. The police are chasing escape artist Dupin, but he is outsmarting them so the policemen themselves end up in prison.

Arthème sorcier

Ernest Servaès

Ernest Servaès

Artheme is fascinated when he sees a conjurer do some simple tricks with a magic wand, and so he steals it, proceeding to change a horse into a cow,an auto into a donkey cart,and a man into demon in a park.

Mireille

René Gaveau, Ernest Servaès

Mireille Lurie, Jean Brunil

The famous love affair between Mireille, a rich Provencal heiress and Vincent, a poor basket maker, thwarted by the jealousy of Ourias, a herdsman himself in love with Mireille.

Arthème proméne son oncle

Ernest Servaès

Ernest Servaès

Artheme takes his elderly uncle for a walk in his wheelchair, but abandons the invalid in the woods overnight when he spots a pretty girl. (MoMA)

L'omelette de Polycarpe

Ernest Servaès

Charles Servaès

Charles Servaes playing Polycarpe is cooking some eggs in his residential hotel. What do you need when you want to cook eggs?A clean chimney that won't kill you. So he takes a chimney brish up to the roof and gets to work. This does not please the other residents, when he pushes soot down their chimney into their rooms!

Arthème opérateur

Ernest Servaès

Ernest Servaès

Arthème decides to become a film projectionist.

Polycarpe fait de la morale au centimètre

Ernest Servaès

Charles Servaès

Charles Servaes as Polycarpe becomes an inspector of sort; he goes around measure the length of women's skirts in Paris to make sure they don't reveal tooo much leg for the moral Apaches of Montmartre.

Le pique-nique d'Arthème

Ernest Servaès

Ernest Servaès

Ernest Servaes and his wife leave their apartment, hoping to have a peaceful picnic in the green suburbs. However, they miss the train. Then the carriage they take turns upside down. Then footballers tromp over their picnic cloth.

Polycarpe veut faire un carton

Ernest Servaès

Charles Servaès

The homeless Polycarpe steals a rifle from some careless society sportsmen and goes on a mindless shooting spree. (MoMA)