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...

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...

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

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

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

A magical woman and her magical eggs.

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

A man is trying to shave, but grotesque faces keep appearing in his mirror.

Female magicians turn people into origami roosters and vice versa.

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...

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...

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

A female magician presents several impressive metamorphoses, combining stop-motion animation and camera tricks.

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...

The extraordinary life of cinema pioneer Segundo de Chomón.

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

A soldier of near-superhuman strength fights battles in the First World War and wages a private war to rescue a young woman from the castle where she...

A woman imagines the revenge of a gypsy that she sent away. This piece is told in multiple scenes, in an increasingly artificial world, as the venue...

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