Segundo de Chomón Movies

A short drama featuring three fictitious scenes of the Spanish War of Independence (1808-1814).

A top-hatted man gets dressed in the morning, and starts to yawn, causing his housekeeper to yawn as well. He sets off down the street where he...

A sculptor creates several faces in a span of four minutes.

The town-crier summons the inhabitants of the town and they read a manifesto which is posted on a wall announcing the fact that at 4 o'clock on that...

A Segundo de Chomón film filled with stop-motion animation and ghosts.

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...

This is another short, simple dance number. It’s quite stunning and unusual though with a bat turning into a woman who proceeds to give us a...

A sorcerer draws signs on the sand making charming young women.

A remarkable early short silent movie that shows what may be achieved with the technology of the day. A woman sits in front of her dressing table...

Early short showing the titular park in around 2 minutes.

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...

"Tigre Reale" (1916) was the film that consolidated Frau Menichelli's stardom, a film more than suitable for her performing skills and silent...

At the beginning of this film two women come onstage dressed in Oriental fashion. They present a shadow play theatre.

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...

It is winter and a couple invites an old woman to eat. The old woman then becomes a fairy and makes the spring appears.

Stencil-coloured version of Segundo de Chomón's Les roses magiques (1906).

A Fallen Spirit (L'Epee du spirite, 1910) by pioneer filmmaker Segundo de Chomón is a fantasy swashbuckler that opens with the arrival at an...

A woman falls asleep on a park bench. The Devil appears and summons an imp who takes the woman to his fantastic lair. After a nightmarish episode,...

A man is trying to shave, but grotesque faces keep appearing in his mirror.

In a chase which literally encompasses the entire globe, a detective follows the path of an apparent embezzler through various foreign nations,...