Segundo de Chomón Movies

One of Chomón's documentary films: A short tour of the city of Girona, the "Venice of Spain". Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2010.

A beautiful seductive fairy makes gentle winged creatures appear.

Pickpock is behind bars. But more elusive than Arsène Lupin, no chain resists him and he plays with policemen like a cat with mice. After...

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 sculptor creates several faces in a span of four minutes.

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...

A trick film using the reverse effect.

An evil magician visits the rajah's palace to perform his magic tricks, but he also steals a valuable casket making his getaway aboard a dragon. The...

In an empty mansion's corridor, flames appear and form into a Mephistophelean magician who conjures a couple of women and then a fireworks display.

A doctor finds himself infected by a deadly disease.

A man and his wife try to enjoy a picnic, but strange and surreal happenings prevent them from doing so.

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,...

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

“Music Forward!” is the order given by a lady in Colonial costume, and in march a group of five musicians, working industriously at their...

De Chomon film from 1908. Existing film is incomplete in length.

Escamillo has a tapeworm.

A pickpocket manages to escape the police through a series of fantastic tricks. The director is this film is unknown.

A moon-woman shakes a Pierot costume and manifests a Pierot clown. She does this four more until there are five Pierots crowded on the ledge of the...

Fascinating views of Toledo: Bridges, elaborately decorated halls and other architectural highlights that appear to date from as early as the 8th...

1904 journalistic actuality.