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...

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 demonic magician attempts to perform his act in a strange grotto, but is confronted by a Good Spirit who opposes him.

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.

Segundo de Chomón's remake of Georges Méliès' A Trip to the Moon.

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

A man is trying to shave, but grotesque faces keep appearing in his mirror.

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 magician shows tricks with money.

A female magician presents several impressive metamorphoses, combining stop-motion animation and camera tricks.

This adaptation of Charles Perrault's classic novel briefly presents the story of a poor family who doesn't find means to sustain their home and end...

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

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.

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...

Pickpock is behind bars. But more elusive than Arsène Lupin, no chain resists him and he plays with policemen like a cat with mice. After...

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...

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

The devil takes Maciste down to hell in an attempt to corrupt and ruin his morality.