Segundo de Chomón Movies

A magician charms a caterpillar and turns it into a butterfly woman.

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

A Fallen Spirit (L'Epee du spirite, 1910) by pioneer filmmaker Segundo de Chomón is a fantasy swashbuckler that opens with the arrival at an...

Two contortionists, dressed as devils, invade a kitchen.

A talented youth has compounded a wonderful fluid, a little of which he applies to the mirror in his room, and when he looks into it his image comes...

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

A trick film using the reverse effect.

Italian silent film Victory or Death, directed by Caserini. An early crime thriller, the plot revolves around the Countess Alberti -- played by Berta...

A short film featuring several dancers from different countries: first an Arabian dancer, then an Algerian belly dancer, and finally Scottish...

A monkey comes home and uses a magic wand to make himself dinner. No sooner as he falls asleep, a hungry burglar enters his house. This short film...

Short film about a magic ride

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

Rising from a stage are two vases which separate to reveal a female dancer behind each of the vases. They create magical circles of flowers from...

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

Short film about a dreaming musician

A clown creates a giant version of his face, and then retrieves two miniature versions of himself from his luggage.

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...

A family tries to eat dinner, but the table vanishes and reappears, changes shape and location, all in the usual manner laid down by Melies, but here...

The documentary was entirely filmed in the province of Burgos, containing monuments and architecture considered emblematic of Spanish heritage. Color...