Segundo de Chomón
- Directing
- October 16, 1871 · Teruel, Aragón, Spain
- May 2, 1929
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.
Known for
Filmography
- The Mysterious Armour · Director
- Fantastic Flowers · Director
- Boda en premià de mar servida por autos de marca Ford · Director
- El gusano solitario · Director
- Kitsune · Thanks
- El hombre que quiso ser Segundo · Self
- Chomón : màgies, pòcimes i fades · Director
- Cinematógrafo 1900 · Self
- Napoleon · Special Effects
- Maciste in Hell · Cinematography
- Lulù · Director
- La Moglie di Claudio · Cinematography
- The War and the Dream of Momi · Director, Animation Director
- The Warrior · Visual Effects
- The Royal Tigress · Cinematography
- The Fire · Cinematography
- The Fear of Zeppelins · Cinematography
- The Immigrant · Cinematography
- Cabiria · Cinematography, Special Effects
- Stronger than Sherlock Holmes · Visual Effects, Cinematography
- Victory or Death! · Cinematography
- The Dread of Doom · Cinematography
- Le cottage hanté · Director
- Las principales ciudades de Portugal: Lisboa y Oporto · Director
- Barcelona, Main City of Catalonia · Director
- Andalusian Superstition · Director, Writer
- Metamorphoses · Director
- Girona, the Spanish Venice · Director
- Cagliostro's Folding Screen · Director, Writer
- The Fantastic Iris · Director
- Excursion a Mallorca · Director
- La casa de los duendes · Director
- Excursión a Kabilye · Director
- Old Toledo · Director
- The Waterfalls of Monasterio de Piedra · Director
- Diabolical Physics · Director
- Escamillo tiene la solitaria · Director
- Burgos · Director
- Barcelona and Its Park · Producer, Director
- A Fallen Spirit · Director
- Inside the Earth · Director, Writer
- The Gold Spider · Director
- Slippery Jim · Director
- An Awful Symphony · Director
- The Haunted Hotel · Director
- A Trip to Jupiter · Director
- The Music Lesson · Director
- Le Voleur invisible · Director, Cinematography
- Tom Thumb · Director, Writer
- A Panicky Picnic · Director, Cinematography
- Elastic Transformation · Cinematography
- Sweet Dreams Intermingled With Nightmares · Director
- The Electric Hotel · Bertrand, Director
- Cave of the Spooks · Director
- Paper Cock-a-Doodles · Director
- Magie moderne · Director
- The Chinese Shadows · Director
- The Bee and the Rose · Director
- Beginning of the Serpentine Dance · Director
- Secret Suitcase · Director
- Unusual Cooking · Director
- Magic Dice · Director
- The Magic Mirror · Director
- Legend of a Ghost · Director
- Japanese Butterflies · Director
- Haunted Castle · Director
- Modern Sculptors · Director
- Sleeping Beauty · Cinematography
- Artistic Ragpickers · Director
- Scullion's Dream · Director
- The Frog · Director
- The Magic Table · Director
- A New Way of Traveling · Director
- A New Way of Traveling · Director
- Excursion to the Moon · Director, Writer
- La maison ensorcellée · Screenplay, Director
- Kiri-Kis · Director
- The Bewitched House · Director, Screenplay
- The Talisman · Visual Effects, Cinematography
- Music, Forward! · Director