Segundo de Chomón

Known for: Directing
Born: October 16, 1871, Teruel, Aragón, Spain
Died: May 2, 1929
Movies: 99

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.

Best-Known Movies

6.6

The Bewitched House

1907

6.2

The Electric Hotel

1908

6.1

The Red Spectre

1907

6.8

Kiri-Kis

1907

6.0

The Golden Beetle

1907

5.3

Excursion to the Moon

1908

6.3

A Trip to Jupiter

1909

6.1

Le Voleur invisible

1909

6.4

A Panicky Picnic

1909

7.0

The War and the Dream of Momi

1917

Filmography

2014	El hombre que quiso ser Segundo	Self (archive footage)
1979	Cinematógrafo 1900	Self (archive footage)
1908	The Electric Hotel	Bertrand

Directing, Writing & Producing

2025	The Mysterious Armour	Director
2025	Fantastic Flowers	Director
2022	Boda en premià de mar servida por autos de marca Ford	Director
2022	El gusano solitario	Director
2010	Chomón : màgies, pòcimes i fades	Director
1923	Lulù	Director
1917	The War and the Dream of Momi	Director
1913	Le cottage hanté	Director
1912	Las principales ciudades de Portugal: Lisboa y Oporto	Director
1912	Barcelona, Main City of Catalonia	Director
1912	Andalusian Superstition	Director, Writer
1912	Metamorphoses	Director
1912	Girona, the Spanish Venice	Director
1912	Cagliostro's Folding Screen	Director, Writer
1912	The Fantastic Iris	Director
1912	Excursion a Mallorca	Director
1912	La casa de los duendes	Director
1912	Excursión a Kabilye	Director
1912	Old Toledo	Director
1912	The Waterfalls of Monasterio de Piedra	Director
1912	Diabolical Physics	Director
1912	Escamillo tiene la solitaria	Director
1911	Burgos	Director
1911	Barcelona and Its Park	Producer, Director
1910	A Fallen Spirit	Director
1910	Inside the Earth	Director, Writer
1909	The Gold Spider	Director
1909	Slippery Jim	Director
1909	An Awful Symphony	Director
1909	The Haunted Hotel	Director
1909	A Trip to Jupiter	Director
1909	The Music Lesson	Director
1909	Le Voleur invisible	Director
1909	Tom Thumb	Director, Writer
1909	A Panicky Picnic	Director
1908	Sweet Dreams Intermingled With Nightmares	Director
1908	The Electric Hotel	Director, Screenplay
1908	Cave of the Spooks	Director
1908	Paper Cock-a-Doodles	Director
1908	Magie moderne	Director
1908	The Chinese Shadows	Director
1908	The Bee and the Rose	Director
1908	Beginning of the Serpentine Dance	Director
1908	Secret Suitcase	Director
1908	Unusual Cooking	Director
1908	Magic Dice	Director
1908	The Magic Mirror	Director
1908	Legend of a Ghost	Director
1908	Japanese Butterflies	Director
1908	Haunted Castle	Director
1908	Modern Sculptors	Director
1908	Artistic Ragpickers	Director
1908	Scullion's Dream	Director
1908	The Frog	Director
1908	The Magic Table	Director
1908	A New Way of Traveling	Director
1908	A New Way of Traveling	Director
1908	Excursion to the Moon	Director, Writer
1908	La maison ensorcellée	Screenplay, Director
1907	Kiri-Kis	Director
1907	The Bewitched House	Director, Screenplay
1907	Music, Forward!	Director
1907	Le Secret de la sorcière	Director
1907	Le Baiser de la sorcière	Director
1907	The Tulips	Director, Writer
1907	Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves	Director
1907	The Enchanted Pond	Director
1907	Enchanted Glasses	Director
1907	The Cigar Box	Director
1907	Easter Eggs	Director
1907	The Fairy of the Black Rocks	Director
1907	Chrysanthemums	Director, Writer
1907	The Express Sculptor	Director
1907	Fantaisies endiablées	Director
1907	Weird Fantasies	Director
1907	The Red Spectre	Director, Writer
1907	Wonderful Flames	Director
1907	Haunted Kitchen	Director
1907	The Golden Beetle	Director
1907	The Yawner	Director
1906	The Charmer	Director
1906	Magic Roses	Director
1906	Hallucination musicale	Director
1906	The Bewitched Shepherd	Director
1906	A Hundred Tricks	Writer, Director
1906	The Magic Flute	Director
1906	The Marriage of Princess Ena and Alphonse XIII, King of Spain	Director
1905	Los héroes del sitio de Zaragoza	Director
1905	Loïe Fuller	Director
1904	The Gallants of the Park	Director, Writer
1904	Barcelona Park at Twilight	Director
1904	Reception of His Majesty Alfonso XIII in Barcelona	Director
1903	Gulliver en el país de los gigantes	Director, Producer, Writer
1902	Choque de trenes	Director
1902	Montserrat	Director, Producer
1901	International Dances	Director

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