Segundo de Chomón

Segundo de Chomón was born in Teruel in 1871. In Paris he met Julienne Mathieu, who became his wife and worked on the colouring of films; with her he developed stencils that Pathé would use. Settled in Barcelona at the beginning of the century, he coloured and distributed Pathé's films, then shot his own trick films, before leaving to work in Paris for the firm, where he was compared to Méliès. A master of frame-by-frame shooting and superimpositions, he created the effects of Cabiria in Italy and collaborated on Abel Gance's Napoléon. He died in Paris in 1929.

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• CinemaThe Red SpectreLe Spectre rougeSegundo de Chomón · 1907Cinema