At trial the prosecuting attorney makes a startling confession: the defendant is his son whose pitiful fate led him to murder. The attorney left the...
Le Coupable
A woman enters a room with a man. She creates a duplicate of him and changes his personality by throwing his clothes from one man to the next.
Elastic Transformation
Two rag-pickers enter their hovel with their bags of scraps. After a little preliminary comedy they set up a white sheet. One of the rag-pickers now...
Artistic Ragpickers
The Count of Champcenetz is governor of the Palace of the Tuileries. His mistress Grace Elliott, a young widow, begs him not to go the Palace where...
The Escape from the Tuileries
A top-hatted man gets dressed in the morning, and starts to yawn, causing his housekeeper to yawn as well. He sets off down the street where he...
The Yawner
A female magician presents several impressive metamorphoses, combining stop-motion animation and camera tricks.
Metamorphoses
A magician charms a caterpillar and turns it into a butterfly woman. This film is a blatant remake of Georges Méliès's "La Chrysalide...
The Charmer
Many of the scenes of this split-reel short about a bizarre group of tramp musicians who disappear into and out of drums, beach umbrellas and...
An Awful Symphony
A Segundo de Chomón trick film.
Magie moderne
A frog hops around a magic fountain.
The Frog
The first scene presents before the astonished eyes of the spectators a solid piece of marble, which the minute it is placed on a table seems to take...
Modern Sculptors
A woman imagines the revenge of a gypsy that she sent away. This piece is told in multiple scenes, in an increasingly artificial world, as the venue...
Andalusian Superstition
An artist watches as musical instruments come to life and St. Cecile appears. Segundo de Chomón's as director is speculative.
Hallucination musicale
Rising from a stage are two vases which separate to reveal a female dancer behind each of the vases. They create magical circles of flowers from...
Chrysanthemums
Charles Prince is an inept butler, so he is fired. He goes and gets a job at a restaurant, where he discovers his former employer in a tryst with a...
Rigadin domestique
This is another short, simple dance number. It’s quite stunning and unusual though with a bat turning into a woman who proceeds to give us a...
Loïe Fuller
In a bower of giant tulips a boy and girl practice flower magic. They cause flowers and birds to open and human forms to issue therefrom, and on the...
The Tulips
Pathé film #2871. In a hotel, a weary traveler settles down to rest. But, hallucinations brought on by fatigue: monsters appear around the...
The Haunted Hotel
What seems to be a set of ancient armor is seen hanging on the wall, when suddenly it takes the form of a living knight, who hops to the floor and...
The Mysterious Armour
De Chomon film from 1908. Existing film is incomplete in length.
Secret Suitcase
