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Segundo de Chomón became involved in film through his wife, who was an actress in Pathé films. In 1902, he became a concessionary for Pathé in Barcelona, distributing its products in Spanish-speaking countries and managing a factory for the coloring of Pathé films. He began shooting footage of Spanish locations for the company; then, in 1905, he moved to Paris where he became a trick film specialist. The body of work he created over five years was outstanding. De Chomón created fantastical narratives embellished with ingenious effects, gorgeous color, innovative hand-drawn, and puppet animation; tricks of the eye that surprise and delight, and startling turns of surreal imagination. De Chomón carried on as a filmmaker, specializing in trick effects, working for Pathé, Itala and others.
Most Popular Segundo de Chomón Trailers
Total trailers found: 118
03 September 1908
In a living room, four contemporary couples from the time the film was shot dance a waltz under the direction of a violinist (Linder).
09 July 1909
The King and his official astronomer are alone in the study viewing the heavenly bodies through the monstrous telescope.
25 November 1979
Tribute to Segundo de Chomón. Semi-documentary featuring short films and appearances by actors who explain his works, such as Inma de Santis, Jesús Gúzman, and Ana Mariscal.
30 September 1904
Early short showing the titular park in around 2 minutes.
10 January 1927
A biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican's career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign) to his flight from Corsica, through the French Revolution (where a real storm is intercut with a political storm) and the Terror, culminating in his triumphant invasion of Italy in 1797.
29 October 2016
A man trapped in purgatory must come face to face with his own demons.
09 November 1916
"Tigre Reale" (1916) was the film that consolidated Frau Menichelli's stardom, a film more than suitable for her performing skills and silent idiosyncrasy that any silent diva would kill to star in… In "Tigre Reale", Frau Menichelli performs the part of Frau Natka, a Russian countess with a troublesome past and an uncertain future.
02 October 2022
Escamillo has a tapeworm.
01 March 1913
A doctor finds himself infected by a deadly disease.
31 January 1908
Based on the story of "Sleeping Beauty" by Charles Perrault.
Titles read: The Christening of the Princess; The Good Fairies Fatal Prediction; The Royal Edict; The Princess is Sixteen Years Old; Searching for the Princess; The Prediction Comes True; Thou Shalt Sleep for a Hundred Years; A Hundred Years later the Prince Charming Goes Hunting; Prince Charming Dismisses His Escort; The Castle of Sleep; The Guard's Hall; You Have Been a Long Time Coming, prince; The Wedding of the Sleeping Beauty to Prince Charming.
16 April 1916
A film based on Gabriele D'Annunzio's novel The Flame. Pina Menichelli plays a vamp who ruins a painter's life just for the fun of it.
01 November 1909
Pickpock is behind bars. But more elusive than Arsène Lupin, no chain resists him and he plays with policemen like a cat with mice.
23 July 1909
Pathé film #2871. In a hotel, a weary traveler settles down to rest. But, hallucinations brought on by fatigue: monsters appear around the bed, which vanishes, while the traveler, thrown to the floor, gets up and grabs a chair.
26 January 1909
This adaptation of Charles Perrault's classic novel briefly presents the story of a poor family who doesn't find means to sustain their home and end up being evicted from it.
27 December 1907
A family troupe of acrobats, made up to appear Japanese, perform various unbelievable stunts in front of the camera, achieved through a trick of the camera.
02 November 1908
Whirling and frenzied, dances symbolizing life suddenly vanish to give way to macabre circles, evolving in flames and terrifying scenes reminiscent of Hans Holbein's famous Dance of Death in the Basel cemetery.
24 January 1908
When the entire kitchen staff falls asleep from exhaustion, a dwarf appears and animates various objects via stop motion -- including their hands, which he cuts off while they snooze -- to do their work.
18 November 1908
A woman falls asleep on a park bench. The Devil appears and summons an imp who takes the woman to his fantastic lair.
04 May 1909
In front of a portico, a music teacher teaches music theory to a group of young women, including Julienne Mathieu.
25 October 1908
Female magicians turn people into origami roosters and vice versa.
02 October 2022
A Spanish wedding scene.
05 April 1912
A trip to Kabilye.
01 March 1912
Fascinating views of Toledo: Bridges, elaborately decorated halls and other architectural highlights that appear to date from as early as the 8th century.
16 October 1912
A portrait of the cities of Lisbon and Oporto.
01 February 1912
Views of the waterfalls at Monasterio de Piedra, in Spain.
01 July 1912
A trip to Mallorca.
28 August 1904
1904 journalistic actuality.
01 June 1912
A house filled with spirits.
07 October 1908
At the beginning of this film two women come onstage dressed in Oriental fashion. They present a shadow play theatre.
01 June 1914
Young Cabiria is kidnapped by pirates and sold as a slave in Carthage. Just as she's to be sacrificed to Moloch, Cabiria is rescued by Fulvius Axilla, a good-hearted Roman spy, and his powerful slave, Maciste.
21 December 1907
A group of travellers go into a house for protection. Little do they know, it is filled with ghosts who make unusual things happen to them.
06 December 1916
A soldier of near-superhuman strength fights battles in the First World War and wages a private war to rescue a young woman from the castle where she is imprisoned.
14 November 1908
An enthusiastic young couple is astounded with modern technology's giant leaps in the fascinating field of electricity.
19 October 1925
The devil takes Maciste down to hell in an attempt to corrupt and ruin his morality.
15 April 1917
Helmed by Giovanni Pastrone, with Segundo de Chomón ably handling the stop-motion animation segment, The War and the Dream of Momi is equal parts patriotic pageantry and eye-popping puppetry.
10 September 1908
The Queen Bee and her entourage appear dancing around the hive. Suddenly, a splendid rose rises in a bed of flowers, comes to life and flies off with the Queen Bee.
11 December 1918
Claudio is married to Cesarina, a frivolous and unfaithful woman. After the death of their only son their marriage is cold.
03 April 1908
A pickpocket manages to escape the police through a series of fantastic tricks. The director in this film is unknown.
09 April 1901
A short dance film in Pathécolor, also know as stencil colouring. The editing cuts correspond with the dancers' costume changes.
19 March 1908
The first scene presents before the astonished eyes of the spectators a solid piece of marble, which the minute it is placed on a table seems to take life, and one can follow a snake-like line branding on the polished face of the stone the name of the house of Pathé Frères.
21 April 1907
A demonic magician attempts to perform his act in a strange grotto, but is confronted by a Good Spirit who opposes him.
04 April 1909
A man in a suit and cap stops in front of the display of a bookseller, finds and flips… "Invisible Man" by H.
25 June 1902
It is the depths of winter, and the snow is falling. The desolate landscape casts a melancholic note over the scene.
30 November 2010
A collection of eight films with magical elements born out of the eternal duality of good and evil. They were shot between 1902 and 1908, when the phantasmagoria genre was highly popular and valued.
25 July 1907
A magical woman and her magical eggs.
29 September 1907
In an outdoor setting, a magician makes pond nymphs and frog people appear out of water and thin air.
20 October 1907
Captivated by a vision of beckoning women, a man dives into the ocean, and soon finds himself walking on the ocean floor.
15 October 1913
A bourgeois gentleman gets excited reading about cops and robbers on the newspaper. His wife, bored by his comments, falls asleep and right after, with the help of the warmth of the living room, he falls asleep too.
03 June 1908
This is not only a colored film of great beauty, but one showing a series of clever trick pictures in which great ingenuity on the part of the operator is exhibited.
24 January 1908
A frog hops around a magic fountain.
28 August 1912
De Chomon short from 1912
04 May 1908
A young woman passing through a cemetery at night is suddenly startled by a voice coming from one of the graves.
11 October 1907
The legend of Ali Baba and the forty thieves: Ali Baba discovers a hidden cave where a band of thieves have stored their enormous treasure.
02 January 1908
Segundo de Chomón's remake of Georges Méliès' A Trip to the Moon.
04 July 1907
This is a mesmerising little short that employs a peculiar bird’s eye view of a mischievous devil who dances around, performing strange tricks and making sexy ladies appear out of nowhere.
13 July 1908
A chef comes into the kitchen and throws a lot of rags on the floor: he then casts a spell over them, and immediately they take the form of human beings, and dance a wild saraband around the place.
22 January 1908
A family tries to eat dinner, but the table vanishes and reappears, changes shape and location, all in the usual manner laid down by Melies, but here copied by Segundo de Chomón.
30 November 2014
The extraordinary life of cinema pioneer Segundo de Chomón.
14 July 1909
Three young children set up a table, and on the table is placed a miniature stage. The stage curtain opens, a carpet appears, and then the carpet unrolls by itself.
