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...

When the entire kitchen staff falls asleep from exhaustion, a dwarf appears and animates various objects via stop motion -- including their hands,...

It is winter and a couple invites an old woman to eat. The old woman then becomes a fairy and makes the spring appears.

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...

Female magicians turn people into origami roosters and vice versa.

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...

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

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...

Three young children set up a table, and on the table is placed a miniature stage. The stage curtain opens, a carpet appears, and then the carpet...

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

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

A chef comes into the kitchen and throws a lot of rags on the floor: he then casts a spell over them, and immediately they take the form of human...

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...

A magical woman and her magical eggs.

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

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

A group of travellers go into a house for protection. Little do they know, it is filled with ghosts who make unusual things happen to them.

A family troupe of acrobats, made up to appear Japanese, perform various unbelievable stunts in front of the camera, achieved through a trick of the...

"The War and the Dream of Momi" was a patriotic war film directed by Giovanni Pastrone. Segundo de Chomón was responsible for the animation...