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...

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,...

Female magicians turn people into origami roosters and vice versa.

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.

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...

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

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...

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.

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...

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...

A chef comes into the kitchen and throws a lot of rags on the floor: he then casts a spell over them, and immediately they take the form of human...

A magical woman and her magical eggs.

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

The town-crier summons the inhabitants of the town and they read a manifesto which is posted on a wall announcing the fact that at 4 o'clock on that...

A woman enters a room with a man. She creates a duplicate of him and changes his personality by throwing his clothes from one man to the next.

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

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