The Genius of Segundo de Chomón ( Los Héroes del Sitio de Zaragoza / L'Hereu de Can Pruna / Barcelone, Parc au Crépuscle / Le Roi de Dollars / Plongeur Fantastique / Ah! La Barbe / Les Cent Trucs / Le Courant Électrique / L'Antre de la Sorcière/ Le Spectre Rouge / La Boîte à Cigars ) ( Superstition andalouse / Barcelona Park at Twilight / King of Dollars / The Fantastic Diver / The Red Spectre / The Cigar Box / The Tulips / Music, Forward! / Kiri-Kis / The Electric Hotel / A Trip to Jupiter / Metamorphoses )

The Genius of Segundo de Chomón (DVD) (*)

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Título original: Los Héroes del Sitio de Zaragoza / L'Hereu de Can Pruna / Barcelone, Parc au Crépuscle / Le Roi de Dollars / Plongeur Fantastique / Ah! La Barbe / Les Cent Trucs / Le Courant Électrique / L'Antre de la Sorcière/ Le Spectre Rouge / La Boîte à Cigars
Título Alterno: Superstition andalouse / Barcelona Park at Twilight / King of Dollars / The Fantastic Diver / The Red Spectre / The Cigar Box / The Tulips / Music, Forward! / Kiri-Kis / The Electric Hotel / A Trip to Jupiter / Metamorphoses
Idiomas y Subtítulos:
Inglés ( Subtitles )
Español ( Subtitles )
Silenciosa ( Mono )

Product Origen/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 0 )

Duración:
144 min

Cociente De Aspecto:
Fullscreen

Caracteristicas Especiales Disponibles:
Menú Interactivo
Acceso De la Escena
Blanco y Negro

Película filmada y producida adentro:
Francia ( Francia, Benelux )

Dirigida Por:
Segundo de Chomón
Ferdinand Zecca

Escrita Por:
Segundo de Chomón

Actores:
Segundo de Chomón
Segundo de Chomón ..... Bertrand
Julienne Mathieu ..... Laure

Synopsis:

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Segundo de Chomón (1871-1929) became involved in film through his wife, who was an actress in Pathé films. In 1902 he became a concessionary for Pathé in Barcelona, distributing its product in Spanish-speaking countries, and managing a factory for the colouring of Pathé films. He began shooting actuality films of Spanish locations for the company, then 1905 moved to Paris where he became a trick film specialist. The body of work he created over five years was outstanding. Films such as Le Spectre Rouge, Kiriki - Acrobates Japonais, Le Voleur Invisible and Une Excursion Incohérente are among the most imaginative and technically accomplished of their age. De Chomón created fantastical narratives embellished with ingenious effects, gorgeous colour, innovative hand-drawn and puppet animation, tricks of the eye that surprise and delight, and startling turns of surreal imagination (see, for example, the worms that crawl out of a chocolate cake in Une Excursion Incohérente, one of a number of films where visitors or tourists are beset by nightmarish haunted buildings, a favourite de Chomón theme). It is curious why he is not generally known as one of the early cinema masters, except among the cognoscenti in the field. Perhaps it is because there is a smaller body of work than that created by Georges Méliès (his works can perhaps be described as a cross between that of Méliès and another who combined trickery with animation, Emile Cohl); perhaps it is because he was a Spaniard working in France for the key part of his film career that has meant that neither side has championed him as much as they might have done. De Chomón carried on as a filmmaker, specialising in trick effects, working for Pathé, Itala and others, and contributing effect work to two of the most notable films of the silent era, Pastrone's Cabiria (1914) and Abel Gance's Napoléon (1927). Perhaps the publication of Segundo de Chomón, el cine de la fantasía will bring hilm back into the spotlight that his genius undoubtedly merits. Produced by the FilmoTeca de Catalunya, and with films taken from the collections of the BFI, CNC Archives du Film, Eye, La Cineteca del Friuli and others, the multi-region DVD contains 31 titles (144 minutes of film), with an original music score by Joan Pineda. There is a booklet, Segundo de Chomón: Más allá del cine de las atracciones 1902-1912, written by Joan M. Minguet, author of the main work on de Chomón, Segundo Chomón. El cinema de la fascinació (2009).

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