Movies: Segundo de Chomón

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 flight from Corsica, through the French Revolution (where a real storm is intercut with a political s...

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 Axilla, a good-hearted Roman spy, and his powerful slave, Maciste. The trio are broken up as Cabiria is ent...

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....

An enthusiastic young couple is astounded with modern technology's giant leaps in the fascinating field of electricity....

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

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

A family troupe of acrobats, made up to appear Japanese, perform various unbelievable stunts in front of the camera, achieved through a trick of the camera....

A trick film using the reverse effect....

A soldier of near-superhuman strength fights battles in the First World War and wages a private war to rescue a young woman from the castle where she is imprisoned....

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

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

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The extraordinary life of cinema pioneer Segundo de Chomón....

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

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

Directed by Febo Mari....

Some gnomes are searching for a wonderful spider that weaves webs of golden coins. Intent on their search, they are unaware that their movements are closely followed by a poor woodcutter, who also penetrates into their caves when they have caught the...

The Devil is bored. He goes back to Earth with a magic elevator. He surprises two sewer workers, disguises himself as a city man, and spreads improbable events: quarrel with a coachman, altercation with a city sergeant, mystification of a barman, qui...