Segundo de Chomón Movies

In this remake of Ferdinand Zecca's "Plongeur fantastique" (The Fantastic Plunger, 1901), Segundo de Chomón shows a diver with reverse motion...

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

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

A female magician presents several impressive metamorphoses, combining stop-motion animation and camera tricks.

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

In a bower of giant tulips a boy and girl practice flower magic. They cause flowers and birds to open and human forms to issue therefrom, and on the...

The documentary was entirely filmed in the province of Burgos, containing monuments and architecture considered emblematic of Spanish heritage. Color...

On an elaborately decorated stage, the titular troubadour of the title bows. He then proceeds to pull several cards out of mid air and arrange them...

A Segundo de Chomón trick film.

The devil performs his magical powers.

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

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

A woman imagines the revenge of a gypsy that she sent away. This piece is told in multiple scenes, in an increasingly artificial world, as the venue...

A magician charms a caterpillar and turns it into a butterfly woman.

A frog hops around a magic fountain.

In this funny picture we see the vacuum cleaner, the modern dust eradicator, performing some very droll tricks. As soon as the fellow turns on the...

A man hides his valuables under his mattress before going to sleep, blissfully unaware of the two burglars on his roof.

This is a mesmerising little short that employs a peculiar bird’s eye view of a mischievous devil who dances around, performing strange tricks...

Short trick film

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