I took a look at this short on the Eye Institute site on Youtube. There it is title "De Uitvinding Van Mijnheer Pimpelaar", which is Dutch. It's not about a fire-escape device as the IMDb plot summary would suggest. Instead, Mr. Breakneck is cursed with falling when going home after a night after his favorite pastime, which is getting falling-down drunk at his favorite pub. He goes to a woodshop, where they device a circular table with a hole in the middle. Now, he gets into this contraption, goes to the bar, drinks to his heart's content. Finally, at the end, a friend can simply roll him home!
However, it's not so simple, especially when his friend stops to speak with another friend, and Mr. Breakneck rolls down the road, with an assortment of people in pursuit! Yes, it all ends in a chase comedy of a type that was excessively popular -- at least among producers -- in this period.