Segundo de Chomón Movies

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

"Tigre Reale" (1916) was the film that consolidated Frau Menichelli's stardom, a film more than suitable for her performing skills and silent...

A monkey comes home and uses a magic wand to make himself dinner. No sooner as he falls asleep, a hungry burglar enters his house. This short film...

Some gnomes are searching for a wonderful spider that weaves webs of golden coins. Intent on their search, they are unaware that their movements are...

Experimental color film that shows a magician and his assistant making objects and people appear and disappear. Then they stack up some blocks and a...

The first scene presents before the astonished eyes of the spectators a solid piece of marble, which the minute it is placed on a table seems to take...

In this weird picture we take a pleasure trip into the infernal regions and are entertained by his Satanic Majesty and all the spooks that are...

The town-crier summons the inhabitants of the town and they read a manifesto which is posted on a wall announcing the fact that at 4 o'clock on that...

A woman metamorphs into a butterfly.

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 little flower film by Gaston Velle.

At the beginning of this film two women come onstage dressed in Oriental fashion. They present a shadow play theatre.

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.

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

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

A magical woman and her magical eggs.

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...

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,...

This is another short, simple dance number. It’s quite stunning and unusual though with a bat turning into a woman who proceeds to give us a...