Name: Onésime horloger
Genre: Short, Comedy, Fantasy
Released: 1914-04-23
Duration: 5 min
Rating: 6.3
Cast: Ernest Bourbon, Raymond Aimos, Berthe Dagmar

A young man who will inherit a fortune in 20 years hits upon a way to speed up time. Writer Louis Feuillade and director Jean Durand hit on a neat idea here, but fail to go anywhere with it. Rather than explore the potential of the idea they simply satisfy themselves with five minutes of speeded up film.

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