Segundo de Chomón Movies

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...

A demonic magician attempts to perform his act in a strange grotto, but is confronted by a Good Spirit who opposes him.

A trick film using the reverse effect.

A man in a suit and cap stops in front of the display of a bookseller, finds and flips… "Invisible Man" by H. G. Wells! Fascinated by the...

In a living room, four contemporary couples from the time the film was shot dance a waltz under the direction of a violinist (Linder). They begin a...

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

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...

Tribute to Segundo de Chomón. Semi-documentary featuring short films and appearances by actors who explain his works, such as Inma de Santis,...

Segundo de Chomón's remake of Georges Méliès' A Trip to the Moon.

Fantastic Flowers is a compilation of short silent films produced between 1906 and 1920, displaying amazing colours that were applied to each frame...

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...

The devil takes Maciste down to hell in an attempt to corrupt and ruin his morality.

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

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.

Based on the story of "Sleeping Beauty" by Charles Perrault. Titles read: The Christening of the Princess; The Good Fairies Fatal Prediction; The...

Short trick film

Captivated by a vision of beckoning women, a man dives into the ocean, and soon finds himself walking on the ocean floor. After encountering numerous...

In an outdoor setting, a magician makes pond nymphs and frog people appear out of water and thin air.

The extraordinary life of cinema pioneer Segundo de Chomón.

An enthusiastic young couple is astounded with modern technology's giant leaps in the fascinating field of electricity.