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- Title
Segundo de Chomón and the fascination for colour.
- Authors
Batllori, Joan M. Minguet
- Abstract
Segundo de Chomón was one of the major figures of early cinema, and throughout his career he showed a particular dedication to colour. As early as 1902, in Barcelona, he tinted a copy of Méliès' Barbe bleu. Between 1902 and 1904 he also tinted several movies for Pathé. In 1905, when he joined Pathé in Paris, he became one of the finest specialists in the cinema of attractions: trick films and phantasmagorias, in which colour was used as an added element to attract and fascinate the spectator. From 1908 or 1909 Chomón began integrating his attractions into more elaborate narratives, and the function played by colour started to change.
- Subjects
SPAIN; DE Chomon, Segundo, 1871-1929; COLORIZATION of motion pictures; SILENT films; FILMMAKERS; COLOR film (Photography); MOTION pictures; SPANISH films -- History &; criticism; MOTION picture history
- Publication
Film History, 2009, Vol 21, Issue 1, p94
- ISSN
0892-2160
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2979/FIL.2009.21.1.94