Directing · b. 1871 · Teruel, Aragón, Spain

Segundo de Chomón

Biography

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, an...

Directed
The Mysterious Armour 2025 Fantastic Flowers 2025 Boda en premià de mar servida por autos de marca Ford 2022 El gusano solitario 2022 Chomón : màgies, pòcimes i fades 2010 Lulù 1923 The War and the Dream of Momi 1917 Le cottage hanté 1913 Old Toledo 1912 Girona, the Spanish Venice 1912 The Fantastic Iris 1912 Andalusian Superstition 1912 Metamorphoses 1912 The Waterfalls of Monasterio de Piedra 1912 Barcelona, Main City of Catalonia 1912 Excursión a Kabilye 1912 La casa de los duendes 1912 Excursion a Mallorca 1912 Las principales ciudades de Portugal: Lisboa y Oporto 1912 Cagliostro's Folding Screen 1912 Diabolical Physics 1912 Burgos 1911 Barcelona and Its Park 1911 A Fallen Spirit 1910 Voyage au centre de la terre 1910 A Panicky Picnic 1909 The Gold Spider 1909 The Haunted Hotel 1909 A Trip to Jupiter 1909 Le Voleur invisible 1909 Tom Thumb 1909 Slippery Jim 1909 The Music Lesson 1909 La Grotte des esprits 1909 Miniature Theatre 1909 The Electric Hotel 1908 Sweet Dreams Intermingled With Nightmares 1908 Legend of a Ghost 1908 Scullion's Dream 1908 Beginning of the Serpentine Dance 1908 The Bee and the Rose 1908 The Chinese Shadows 1908 Modern Sculptors 1908 Excursion to the Moon 1908 Japanese Butterflies 1908 The Frog 1908 L'Album Magique 1908 The Magic Table 1908 Unusual Cooking 1908 Magic Dice 1908 Secret Suitcase 1908 Paper Cock-a-Doodles 1908 Magie moderne 1908 The Magic Mirror 1908 A New Way of Traveling 1908 Haunted Castle 1908 A New Way of Traveling 1908 Artistic Rag Pickers 1908 Whimsical People 1908 Diabolical Pickpocket 1908 The Vacuum Cleaner 1908 Weird Fantasies 1907 Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves 1907 Le Secret de la sorcière 1907 The Red Spectre 1907 The Golden Beetle 1907 Kiri-Kis 1907 Music, Forward! 1907 The Bewitched House 1907 The Tulips 1907 The Yawner 1907 Easter Eggs 1907 The Express Sculptor 1907 The Cigar Box 1907 The Enchanted Pond 1907 The Fairy of the Black Rocks 1907 Enchanted Glasses 1907 Chrysanthemums 1907 Wonderful Flames 1907 Haunted Kitchen 1907 Fantaisies endiablées 1907 Le baiser de la sorcière 1907 Satán se divierte (Satan s'amuse or Satan at Play) 1907 Wonderful Mirrors 1907 Magic Roses 1906 The Bewitched Shepherd 1906 The Charmer 1906 A Hundred Tricks 1906 The Marriage of Princess Ena and Alphonse XIII, King of Spain 1906 The Magic Flute 1906 Hallucination musicale 1906 Loïe Fuller 1905 Los héroes del sitio de Zaragoza 1905 The Gallants of the Park 1904 Barcelona Park at Twilight 1904 Reception of His Majesty Alfonso XIII in Barcelona 1904 Gulliver en el país de los gigantes 1903 Choque de trenes 1902 Montserrat 1902 International Dances 1901
Cinematography
Maciste in Hell 1925 La Moglie di Claudio 1918 The War and the Dream of Momi 1917 The Royal Tigress 1916 The Fire 1916 The Immigrant 1915 The Fear of Zeppelins 1915 Cabiria 1914 The Dread of Doom 1913 Stronger than Sherlock Holmes 1913 Victory or Death! 1913 Cagliostro's Folding Screen 1912 Andalusian Superstition 1912 Le Voleur invisible 1909 Sleeping Beauty 1908 Elastic Transformation 1908 The Talisman 1907 The Tulips 1907 The Pearl Fisherman 1907 The Cigar Box 1907 Enchanted Glasses 1907 Haunted Kitchen 1907 Aladdin and His Wonder Lamp 1906 Barcelona Park at Twilight 1904 Gulliver en el país de los gigantes 1903 Choque de trenes 1902 Montserrat 1902
Acting
El hombre que quiso ser Segundo Self (archive footage) 2014 Cinematógrafo 1900 Self (archive footage) 1979
Other Credits
Kitsune Thanks 2016 Napoleon Special Effects 1927 The Warrior Visual Effects 1916 The Clock-Maker's Secret Cinematography 1907 A Detective's Tour Around The World Second Unit Cinematographer 1906 The Fairy of Spring Colorist 1902
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