Segundo de Chomón Movies

An evil magician visits the rajah's palace to perform his magic tricks, but he also steals a valuable casket making his getaway aboard a dragon. The...

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

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...

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.

Fascinating views of Toledo: Bridges, elaborately decorated halls and other architectural highlights that appear to date from as early as the 8th...

A woman falls asleep on a park bench. The Devil appears and summons an imp who takes the woman to his fantastic lair. After a nightmarish episode,...

French horror short from 1908.

A Spanish wedding scene.

A portrait of the cities of Lisbon and Oporto.

A trip to Kabilye.

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

Two rag-pickers enter their hovel with their bags of scraps. After a little preliminary comedy they set up a white sheet. One of the rag-pickers now...

Two contortionists, dressed as devils, invade a kitchen.

Film about an inventor going wild

A remarkable early short silent movie that shows what may be achieved with the technology of the day. A woman sits in front of her dressing table...

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...

Female magicians turn people into origami roosters and vice versa.

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

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...

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