Segundo de Chomón Movies

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...

The daring Countess Blanche Alberti spends the film in hot pursuit of a spy posing as a count who stole her father’s secret documents-- after...

An old woman begs a young men to carry her heavy bundle of firewood. The man refuses: he rather goes to sleep. The woman, who turns out to be a...

A bourgeois gentleman gets excited reading about cops and robbers on the newspaper. His wife, bored by his comments, falls asleep and right after,...

Two rag-pickers enter their hovel with their bags of scraps. After a little preliminary comedy they set up a white sheet. One of the rag-pickers now...

A magical woman and her magical eggs.

This early silent era film was released in France circa 1908 by Segundo de Chomón. It is partially hand coloured and shows several Japanese...

Gaston Velle's 'Les Fleurs Animées' was screened by the Australian-based Corrick Family Entertainers as part of their variety act. In their...

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

French horror short from 1908.

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 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...

Cretinetti is about to get married and he could not be any happier and more in love with his Junoesque consort. But just on the day of his wedding,...

The heir of a rich family puts up a notice, where he says he is looking for a wife. As a result, he will soon find himself fleeing from a dozen women.

This magical masterpiece was released in 1912 by Segundo de Chomón.

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.

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...

A magician performs a magic show involving women turning into bouquets of roses. Later the roses are festooned together in a fancy way to decorate...

A house filled with spirits.