Movies: Segundo de Chomón

In front of a portico, a music teacher teaches music theory to a group of young women, including Julienne Mathieu. A piano stands on the right side. A staff is drawn at the top of the portico. The four singers have extendable necks, and their heads, ...

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 camera....

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

A magician charms a caterpillar and turns it into a butterfly woman....

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

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

In a chase which literally encompasses the entire globe, a detective follows the path of an apparent embezzler through various foreign nations, exotic cultures and dangerous situations....

A moon-woman shakes a Pierot costume and manifests a Pierot clown. She does this four more until there are five Pierots crowded on the ledge of the moon. They fall to the earth and dance like tops turning one by one into Columbine maidens....

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....

De Chomon short from 1912...

A doctor finds himself infected by a deadly disease....

The first scene presents before the astonished eyes of the spectators a solid piece of marble, which the minute it is placed on a table seems to take life, and one can follow a snake-like line branding on the polished face of the stone the name of th...

This early silent era film was released in France circa 1908 by Segundo de Chomón. It is partially hand coloured and shows several Japanese characters and eventually a worm change into a butterfly which while flapping it's wings changes colours as it...

A trip to Kabilye....

Short film about a dreaming musician...

A magician shows tricks with money....

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

The daring Countess Blanche Alberti spends the film in hot pursuit of a spy posing as a count who stole her father’s secret documents-- after stealing her heart and betraying her....

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

A short drama featuring three fictitious scenes of the Spanish War of Independence (1808-1814)....