Segundo de Chomón became involved in film through his coloring workshop in Barcelona, Spain. From October 1902 to March 1903, he collaborated with Pathé, adding color to some of their films in Barcelona. He began shooting films for Macaya & Marro in 1905; then, in the summer of 1906, he moved to Paris where he became a trick film specialist for Pathé. 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.
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A short dance film in Pathécolor, also know as stencil colouring. The editing cuts correspond with t...
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The heir of a rich family puts up a notice, where he says he is looking for a wife. As a result, he ...
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This is another short, simple dance number. It’s quite stunning and unusual though with a bat turnin...
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A short drama featuring three fictitious scenes of the Spanish War of Independence (1808-1814)....
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A magician performs a magic show involving women turning into bouquets of roses. Later the roses are...
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A young peasant leaves his cottage after a quarrel with his wife, and meets a witch. She takes him t...
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A couple steals food from a grocery store. To stop them from repeating their crime, the cunning sale...
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A short film documenting the wedding ceremony of Princess Ena to King Alfonso XIII of Spain. Showing...
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A magician charms a caterpillar and turns it into a butterfly woman. This film is a blatant remake o...
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A top-hatted man gets dressed in the morning, and starts to yawn, causing his housekeeper to yawn as...
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In an empty mansion's corridor, flames appear and form into a Mephistophelean magician who conjures ...
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In an outdoor setting, a magician makes pond nymphs and frog people appear out of water and thin air...
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A group of travellers go into a house for protection. Little do they know, it is filled with ghosts ...
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A demonic magician attempts to perform his act in a strange grotto, but is confronted by a Good Spir...
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The Devil is bored. He goes back to Earth with a magic elevator. He surprises two sewer workers, dis...
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An old woman begs a young men to carry her heavy bundle of firewood. The man refuses: he rather goes...
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Devilish looking man dances with a dress in his arms. The dress stands up by itself and a woman magi...
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In a bower of giant tulips a boy and girl practice flower magic. They cause flowers and birds to ope...
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This is a mesmerising little short that employs a peculiar bird’s eye view of a mischievous devil wh...
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“Music Forward!” is the order given by a lady in Colonial costume, and in march a group of five musi...
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A moon-woman shakes a Pierot costume and manifests a Pierot clown. She does this four more until the...
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A woman falls asleep on a park bench. The Devil appears and summons an imp who takes the woman to hi...
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This is not only a colored film of great beauty, but one showing a series of clever trick pictures i...
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In a living room, four contemporary couples from the time the film was shot dance a waltz under the ...
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This French film isn't that well known today but it will mainly appeal to those film buffs with a th...
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This early silent era film was released in France circa 1908 by Segundo de Chomón. It is partially h...
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The first scene presents before the astonished eyes of the spectators a solid piece of marble, which...
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Two rag-pickers enter their hovel with their bags of scraps. After a little preliminary comedy they ...
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When the entire kitchen staff falls asleep from exhaustion, a dwarf appears and animates various obj...
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An enthusiastic young couple is astounded with modern technology's giant leaps in the fascinating fi...
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At the beginning of this film two women come onstage dressed in Oriental fashion. They present a sha...
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A chef comes into the kitchen and throws a lot of rags on the floor: he then casts a spell over them...
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Experimental color film that shows a magician and his assistant making objects and people appear and...
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A young woman passing through a cemetery at night is suddenly startled by a voice coming from one of...
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A remarkable early short silent movie that shows what may be achieved with the technology of the day...
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A family tries to eat dinner, but the table vanishes and reappears, changes shape and location, all ...
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In this funny picture we see the vacuum cleaner, the modern dust eradicator, performing some very dr...
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Pickpock is behind bars. But more elusive than Arsène Lupin, no chain resists him and he plays with ...
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The King and his official astronomer are alone in the study viewing the heavenly bodies through the ...
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A man in a suit and cap stops in front of the display of a bookseller, finds and flips… "Invisible M...
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In front of a portico, a music teacher teaches music theory to a group of young women, including Jul...
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A man and his wife try to enjoy a picnic, but strange and surreal happenings prevent them from doing...
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Three young children set up a table, and on the table is placed a miniature stage. The stage curtain...
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Short movie on Barcelona's "Citadel Park" produced by Segundo de Chomón for Pathé Frères. Directed a...
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A woman imagines the revenge of a gypsy that she sent away. This piece is told in multiple scenes, i...
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Fascinating views of Toledo: Bridges, elaborately decorated halls and other architectural highlights...
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One of Chomón's documentary films: A short tour of the city of Girona, the "Venice of Spain". Prese...
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