Segundo de Chomón
Born: 1871-10-16 in Teruel, Aragón, Spain
Died: 1929-05-02
Known For: Directing
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, and startling turns of surreal imagination. De Chomón carried on as a filmmaker, specializing in trick effects, working for Pathé, Itala and others.
Filmography
2025
- The Mysterious Armour ... (Director)
- Fantastic Flowers ... (Director)
2022
- El gusano solitario ... (Director)
- Boda en premià de mar servida por autos de marca Ford ... (Director)
2016
- Kitsune ... (Thanks)
2014
- El hombre que quiso ser Segundo as Self (archive footage)
2010
- Chomón : màgies, pòcimes i fades ... (Director)
1979
- Cinematógrafo 1900 as Self (archive footage)
1927
- Napoleon ... (Special Effects)
1925
- Maciste in Hell ... (Director of Photography)
1923
- Lulù ... (Director)
1918
- La Moglie di Claudio ... (Director of Photography)
1917
- The War and the Dream of Momi ... (Director)
1916
- The Fire ... (Director of Photography)
- The Warrior ... (Visual Effects)
- The Royal Tigress ... (Director of Photography)
1915
- The Immigrant ... (Director of Photography)
- The Fear of Zeppelins ... (Director of Photography)
1914
- Cabiria ... (Director of Photography)
1913
- Stronger than Sherlock Holmes ... (Visual Effects)
- Victory or Death! ... (Director of Photography)
- The Dread of Doom ... (Director of Photography)
- Le cottage hanté ... (Director)
1912
- Metamorphoses ... (Director)
- Barcelona, Main City of Catalonia ... (Director)
- Andalusian Superstition ... (Director)
- Cagliostro's Folding Screen ... (Director)
- The Waterfalls of Monasterio de Piedra ... (Director)
- Old Toledo ... (Director)
- Girona, the Spanish Venice ... (Director)
- Excursión a Kabilye ... (Director)
- Diabolical Physics ... (Director)
- Las principales ciudades de Portugal: Lisboa y Oporto ... (Director)
- The Fantastic Iris ... (Director)
- La casa de los duendes ... (Director)
- Excursion a Mallorca ... (Director)
1911
- Burgos ... (Director)
- Barcelona and Its Park ... (Director)
1910
- A Fallen Spirit ... (Director)
- Voyage au centre de la terre ... (Writer)
1909
- Le Voleur invisible ... (Director)
- Miniature Theatre ... (Director)
- Slippery Jim ... (Director)
- Tom Thumb ... (Director)
- A Trip to Jupiter ... (Director)
- A Panicky Picnic ... (Director)
- The Gold Spider ... (Director)
- The Music Lesson ... (Director)
- La Grotte des esprits ... (Director)
- The Haunted Hotel ... (Director)
1908
- Scullion's Dream ... (Director)
- Sleeping Beauty ... (Director of Photography)
- The Electric Hotel as Bertrand
- Modern Sculptors ... (Director)
- Excursion to the Moon ... (Director)
- The Chinese Shadows ... (Director)
- Elastic Transformation ... (Director of Photography)
- The Frog ... (Director)
- Unusual Cooking ... (Director)
- Paper Cock-a-Doodles ... (Director)
- Magic Dice ... (Director)
- Sweet Dreams Intermingled With Nightmares ... (Director)
- Legend of a Ghost ... (Director)
- A New Way of Traveling ... (Director)
- The Vacuum Cleaner ... (Visual Effects)
- The Magic Mirror ... (Director)
- The Bee and the Rose ... (Director)
- Diabolical Pickpocket ... (Director)
- Beginning of the Serpentine Dance ... (Director)
- Japanese Butterflies ... (Director)
- Artistic Rag Pickers ... (Director)
- The Magic Table ... (Director)
- Secret Suitcase ... (Director)
- L'Album Magique ... (Director)
- A New Way of Traveling ... (Director)
- Magie moderne ... (Director)
- Haunted Castle ... (Director)
1907
- Kiriki, acrobates japonais ... (Director)
- The Red Spectre ... (Director)
- The Bewitched House ... (Director)
- The Pearl Fisherman ... (Director of Photography)
- The Talisman ... (Visual Effects)
- Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves ... (Director)
- The Cigar Box ... (Director)
- The Fairy of the Black Rocks ... (Director)
- The Golden Beetle ... (Director)
- Easter Eggs ... (Director)
- Weird Fantasies ... (Director)
- The Enchanted Pond ... (Director)
- Enchanted Glasses ... (Director)
- The Yawner ... (Director)
- The Tulips ... (Director)
- Music, Forward! ... (Director)
- The Express Sculptor ... (Director)
- Wonderful Flames ... (Director)
- Chrysanthemums ... (Writer)
- Le Baiser de la sorcière ... (Director)
- Satan at Play
- Le Secret de la sorcière ... (Director)
- Haunted Kitchen ... (Director)
- Fantaisies endiablées ... (Director)
1906
- Magic Roses ... (Director)
- A Hundred Tricks ... (Writer)
- Aladdin and His Wonder Lamp ... (Director of Photography)
- The Magic Flute ... (Director)
- The Bewitched Shepherd ... (Director)
- A Detective's Tour Around The World ... (Second Unit Cinematographer)
- The Charmer ... (Director)
- Hallucination musicale ... (Director)
- The Marriage of Princess Ena and Alphonse XIII, King of Spain ... (Director)
1905
- Loïe Fuller ... (Director)
- Los héroes del sitio de Zaragoza ... (Director)
1904
- The Gallants of the Park ... (Director)
- Reception of His Majesty Alfonso XIII in Barcelona ... (Director)
- Barcelona Park at Twilight ... (Director)
1903
- Gulliver en el país de los gigantes ... (Director)
1902
- Choque de trenes ... (Director)
- The Fairy of Spring ... (Colorist)
- Montserrat ... (Director)
1901
- International Dances ... (Director)