Segundo de Chomón
Directing
Born October 16, 1871 in Teruel, Aragón, Spain
Segundo de Chomón became involved in film through his coloring workshop in Barcelona, Spain. From October 1902 to March 1903, he collaborated with Pathé, adding color to some of their films in Barcelona. He began shooting films for Macaya & Marro in 1905; then, in the summer of 1906, he moved to Paris where he became a trick film specialist for Pathé. 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.
Filmography
Fantastic Flowers
Kitsune
El hombre que quiso ser Segundo
Self (archive footage)
Cinematógrafo 1900
Self (archive footage)
Napoleon
Maciste in Hell
Lulù
La Moglie di Claudio
The War and the Dream of Momi
The Warrior
The Royal Tigress
The Fire
Cabiria
Stronger than Sherlock Holmes
Victory or Death!
Barcelona, Main City of Catalonia
Andalusian Superstition
Metamorphoses
Girona, the Spanish Venice
Cagliostro's Folding Screen
The Fantastic Iris
Old Toledo
Diabolical Physics
Burgos
Barcelona and Its Park
A Fallen Spirit
The Gold Spider
Slippery Jim
Miniature Theatre
A Trip to Jupiter
The Haunted Hotel
The Music Lesson
Le Voleur invisible
A Panicky Picnic
Sweet Dreams Intermingled With Nightmares
The Electric Hotel
Bertrand
Paper Cock-a-Doodles
Magie moderne
The Chinese Shadows
The Bee and the Rose
Beginning of the Serpentine Dance
Secret Suitcase
Unusual Cooking
Magic Dice
Legend of a Ghost
Japanese Butterflies
Haunted Castle
Diabolical Pickpocket
Modern Sculptors
Sleeping Beauty
Artistic Ragpickers
Scullion's Dream
The Frog
The Magic Table
A New Way of Traveling
A New Way of Traveling
Excursion to the Moon
Kiri-Kis
The Bewitched House
The Talisman
Music, Forward!
The Tulips
The Pearl Fisherman
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
The Enchanted Pond
Enchanted Glasses
The Cigar Box
Easter Eggs
The Fairy of the Black Rocks
Chrysanthemums
The Express Sculptor
Fantaisies endiablées
Weird Fantasies
The Red Spectre
Wonderful Flames
Haunted Kitchen
The Golden Beetle
The Charmer
Magic Roses
Hallucination musicale
Aladdin and His Wonder Lamp
The Bewitched Shepherd
A Hundred Tricks
The Marriage of Princess Ena and Alphonse XIII, King of Spain
A Detective's Tour Around The World
Los héroes del sitio de Zaragoza
Loïe Fuller
The Gallants of the Park
Barcelona Park at Twilight
Reception of His Majesty Alfonso XIII in Barcelona
The Fairy of Spring
Choque de trenes