Movies: Segundo de Chomón

People magically appear and disappear from an oversized musical cigar dispenser....

A collection of eight films with magical elements born out of the eternal duality of good and evil. They were shot between 1902 and 1908, when the phantasmagoria genre was highly popular and valued....

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

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 young woman passing through a cemetery at night is suddenly startled by a voice coming from one of the graves. She wishes to rush away, but the ghost appearing compels her to remain. He explains to the terrified girl that she must go to the kingdom...

When the entire kitchen staff falls asleep from exhaustion, a dwarf appears and animates various objects via stop motion -- including their hands, which he cuts off while they snooze -- to do their work....

Early short showing the titular park in around 2 minutes....

An evil magician visits the rajah's palace to perform his magic tricks, but he also steals a valuable casket making his getaway aboard a dragon. The rajah pursues the wizard to a subterranean cavern....

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...

A soldier attempts to rest at an inn, but his bed plays tricks on him, never giving the poor man a chance to sleep. The inn continues to haunt him until it explodes into a pile of rubble....

This is not only a colored film of great beauty, but one showing a series of clever trick pictures in which great ingenuity on the part of the operator is exhibited....

On an elaborately decorated stage, the titular troubadour of the title bows. He then proceeds to pull several cards out of mid air and arrange them on the floor. Then, taking a banjo he multiplies himself into seven different troubadours, each playin...

Views of the waterfalls at Monasterio de Piedra, in Spain....

A Segundo de Chomón trick film....

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A portrait of the cities of Lisbon and Oporto....

This is a beautifully colored picture, opening with a scene in the laboratory of an old wizard, who is bending over a vessel compounding some sort of magic fluid, out of which much to our astonishment and delight spring a group of beautiful girls fol...

A short dance film in Pathécolor, also know as stencil colouring. The editing cuts correspond with the dancers' costume changes. More about stencil colouring at http://zauberklang.ch/filmcolors/timeline-entry/1218/....

In a chase which literally encompasses the entire globe, a detective follows the path of an apparent embezzler through various foreign nations, exotic cultures and dangerous situations....

In an uninhabited house, a burglar has to deal with objects that are set against him....