Segundo de Chomón Movies

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...

1904 journalistic actuality.

A magical woman and her magical eggs.

A trick film using the reverse effect.

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.

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

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.

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...

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

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

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

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

Captivated by a vision of beckoning women, a man dives into the ocean, and soon finds himself walking on the ocean floor. After encountering numerous...

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

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.

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