Segundo de Chomón Movies

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...

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.

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

A little flower film by Gaston Velle.

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

Film about an inventor going wild

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

A short drama featuring three fictitious scenes of the Spanish War of Independence (1808-1814).

The King and his official astronomer are alone in the study viewing the heavenly bodies through the monstrous telescope. They go out on the balcony...

The extraordinary life of cinema pioneer Segundo de Chomón.

A film based on Gabriele D'Annunzio's novel The Flame. Pina Menichelli plays a vamp who ruins a painter's life just for the fun of it.

A chef comes into the kitchen and throws a lot of rags on the floor: he then casts a spell over them, and immediately they take the form of human...

A woman metamorphs into a butterfly.

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...

1904 journalistic actuality.

A sorcerer draws signs on the sand making charming young women.

A sculptor creates several faces in a span of four minutes.

In a bower of giant tulips a boy and girl practice flower magic. They cause flowers and birds to open and human forms to issue therefrom, and on the...