Segundo de Chomón
Biography
Segundo de Chomón became involved in film through his wife, who was an actress in Pathé films. In 1902, he became a concessionary for Pathé in Barcelona, distributing its products in Spanish-speaking countries and managing a factory for the coloring of Pathé films. He began shooting footage of Spanish locations for the company; then, in 1905, he moved to Paris where he became a trick film specialist. The body of work he created over five years was outstanding. De Chomón created fantastical narratives embellished with ingenious effects, gorgeous color, innovative hand-drawn, and puppet animation; tricks of the eye that surprise and delight, and startling turns of surreal imagination. De Chomón carried on as a filmmaker, specializing in trick effects, working for Pathé, Itala and others.
Acting (3 movies)
Directing (100 movies)
Weird Fantasies
1907
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
1907
Le Secret de la sorcière
1907
A Panicky Picnic
1909
The Electric Hotel
1908
The Red Spectre
1907
Magic Roses
1906
King of Dollars
1905
The Golden Beetle
1907
Kiri-Kis
1907
Music, Forward!
1907
The Bewitched House
1907
The War and the Dream of Momi
1917
Old Toledo
1912
Girona, the Spanish Venice
1912
The Fantastic Iris
1912
Sweet Dreams Intermingled With Nightmares
1908
Loïe Fuller
1905
Legend of a Ghost
1908
A Funny Shave
1905
The Heroes of the Siege of Saragossa
1905
The Magician from Arabia
1906
The Bewitched Shepherd
1906
The Tulips
1907
The Yawner
1907
Easter Eggs
1907
The Express Sculptor
1907
The Gold Spider
1909
Scullion's Dream
1908
Beginning of the Serpentine Dance
1908
The Bee and the Rose
1908
The Chinese Shadows
1908
Modern Sculptors
1908
Andalusian Superstition
1912
Excursion to the Moon
1908
Metamorphoses
1912
A Fallen Spirit
1910
The Haunted Hotel
1909
A Trip to Jupiter
1909
Le Voleur invisible
1909
Tom Thumb
1909
Slippery Jim
1909
The Cigar Box
1907
Japanese Butterflies
1908
The Gold Obsession
1906
The Enchanted Pond
1907
The Fairy of the Black Rocks
1907
The Charmer
1906
The Frog
1908
The Music Lesson
1909
The Gallants of the Park
1904
L'Album Magique
1908
Marvellous Reversing
1905
Burgos
1911
Chomón : màgies, pòcimes i fades
2010
Le cottage hanté
1913
Enchanted Glasses
1907
The Magic Table
1908
La Grotte des esprits
1909
Barcelona Park at Twilight
1904
Unusual Cooking
1908
Magic Dice
1908
The Troubadour
1906
The Waterfalls of Monasterio de Piedra
1912
A Hundred Tricks
1906
Secret Suitcase
1908
Barcelona, Main City of Catalonia
1912
Reception of His Majesty Alfonso XIII in Barcelona
1904
The Marriage of Princess Ena and Alphonse XIII, King of Spain
1906
Paper Cock-a-Doodles
1908
Magie moderne
1908
Excursión a Kabilye
1912
Lulù
1923
La casa de los duendes
1912
Excursion a Mallorca
1912
Las principales ciudades de Portugal: Lisboa y Oporto
1912
Boda en premià de mar servida por autos de marca Ford
2022
El gusano solitario
2022
The Magic Mirror
1908
A New Way of Traveling
1908
The Magic Flute
1906
Haunted Castle
1908
Cagliostro's Folding Screen
1912
Diabolical Physics
1912
The Fantastic Diver
1905
A New Way of Traveling
1908
Hallucination musicale
1906
Barcelona and Its Park
1911
Chrysanthemums
1907
Wonderful Flames
1907
Voyage au centre de la terre
1910
Haunted Kitchen
1907
Artistic Rag Pickers
1908
International Dances
1901
Frightful Night
1905
Fantaisies endiablées
1907
Le baiser de la sorcière
1907
The Mysterious Armour
2025
Fantastic Flowers
2025
Whimsical People
1908
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| The Gallants of the Park | 1904 | Writer |
| Marvellous Reversing | 1905 | Screenplay |
| The Heroes of the Siege of Saragossa | 1905 | Screenplay |
| A Hundred Tricks | 1906 | Writer |
| Métempsycose | 1907 | Writer |
| The Red Spectre | 1907 | Writer |
| Chrysanthemums | 1907 | Writer |
| The Tulips | 1907 | Writer |
| The Bewitched House | 1907 | Screenplay |
| Excursion to the Moon | 1908 | Writer |
| Legend of a Ghost | 1908 | Writer |
| L'Album Magique | 1908 | Writer |
| The Electric Hotel | 1908 | Screenplay |
| Tom Thumb | 1909 | Writer |
| Voyage au centre de la terre | 1910 | Writer |
| Barcelona and Its Park | 1911 | Producer |
| Cagliostro's Folding Screen | 1912 | Writer |
| Andalusian Superstition | 1912 | Writer |