Segundo de Chomón Movies

A Spanish wedding scene.

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

Short trick film

Steampunk fantasia of interplanetary travel and submarine life.

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

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...

In an empty mansion's corridor, flames appear and form into a Mephistophelean magician who conjures a couple of women and then a fireworks display.

A clown creates a giant version of his face, and then retrieves two miniature versions of himself from his luggage.

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...

Views of the waterfalls at Monasterio de Piedra, in Spain.

French horror short from 1908.

This is a beautifully colored picture, opening with a scene in the laboratory of an old wizard, who is bending over a vessel compounding some sort of...

A house filled with spirits.

A trip to Kabilye.

After a witch has finished her breakfast and has flown away, two bandits break into her house. They scatter various magic canisters, and as a result,...

In an uninhabited house, a burglar has to deal with objects that are set against him.

A short dance film in Pathécolor, also know as stencil colouring. The editing cuts correspond with the dancers' costume changes. More about...