Chomon on the Webhttp://blip.tv/file/923757
Wow - I just found on the web the last film of the "Spanish Méliès," Segundo de Chomón. You might want to turn the sound off/or pick your own music. I supply a rough translation of the first part of the long narration below the viewing screen. The rest of it is an interpretation of the action which is of dubious value. The titles are in Italian and there is no translation, but it's not difficult to follow.
This is the sort of thing where I'm amazed that (a) this was made at all and (b) it survives at all. Whoh! Remain patient through the live action stuff; the models and animation later in the film really make it worth it.
Uncle Dave Lewis
Ann Arbor MI
Spanish filmmaker Segundo de Chomón (1871-1929) has been all too often associated with to the trick films he made in in France and Italy; In fact, in his own time Chomón was already identified with the trick film genre.
But Segundo de Chomón Secondly of was also a great innovator in the form of the animation, utilizing very diverse techniques: silhouette films, which he made long before which Lotte Reiniger began to dominate that field, clay dolls, models, object animation and even cartoons.
Chomón's two most famous titles were to made with dolls: Le thêatre du petit Bob(1909), for Pathé, and La guerra e il sogno di Momi (The War and the Momi's Song, 1917), made for Italia, where he collaborated in a fruitful way with live action director Giovanni Pastrone. [Pastrone was the Italian pioneer of the Epic feature, starting with Quo Vadis (1911).-UD]
This was Chomón's last film, as preserved by the Museo Nazionale del Cinema de Turin, in a reduced print of little more than 20 minutes duration.
Labels: animation, chomon, pastrone, silent