Segundo de Chomón Movies

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

“Music Forward!” is the order given by a lady in Colonial costume, and in march a group of five musicians, working industriously at their...

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

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

Female magicians turn people into origami roosters and vice versa.

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

A family living in poverty, in a tiny house with no furniture. When mama goes to sleep, the youngsters head out to rustle up some firewood....

Steampunk fantasia of interplanetary travel and submarine life.

One of Chomón's documentary films: A short tour of the city of Girona, the "Venice of Spain". Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2010.

Claudio is married to Cesarina, a frivolous and unfaithful woman. After the death of their only son their marriage is cold. While his wife lives her...

A trick film using the reverse effect.

In this funny picture we see the vacuum cleaner, the modern dust eradicator, performing some very droll tricks. As soon as the fellow turns on the...

Escamillo has a tapeworm.

Experimental color film that shows a magician and his assistant making objects and people appear and disappear. Then they stack up some blocks and a...

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 couple steals food from a grocery store. To stop them from repeating their crime, the cunning salesman electrifies his shop.

People magically appear and disappear from an oversized musical cigar dispenser.

In an empty mansion's corridor, flames appear and form into a Mephistophelean magician who conjures a couple of women and then a fireworks display.

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...