Segundo de Chomón Movies

The legend of Aladdin and his magic lamp: Aladdin finds a magic lamp which brings him wealth, luxury, and marriage to a princess. But his rival, an...

The extraordinary life of cinema pioneer Segundo de Chomón.

A magician is surprised when he attempts to transform a beetle.

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...

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...

Film about an inventor going wild

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...

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...

A trick film using the reverse effect.

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

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

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

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.

The Devil is bored. He goes back to Earth with a magic elevator. He surprises two sewer workers, disguises himself as a city man, and spreads...

A Fallen Spirit (L'Epee du spirite, 1910) by pioneer filmmaker Segundo de Chomón is a fantasy swashbuckler that opens with the arrival at an...

A man trapped in purgatory must come face to face with his own demons.

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

1904 journalistic actuality.