Segundo de Chomón's "Chinese Shadows" is another decent attempt to take away Georges Méliès's market in trick films. I don't think I've ever seen Méliès do what Chomón did here. Instead of a bunch of standard stop tricks like was Méliès's fashion, Chomón uses shadow animation as the main effect.
There's no real plot here, though. The film is simply about two Chinese women putting on a show of Chinese animation. The animation has no story to tell either: things morph together into others, people and objects split apart, sometimes things transform into other things. It's just fun animation. Nothing outstanding but it's pretty good animation for 1908. Too bad Chomón wasn't doing stuff like this earlier, because by 1908 trick films were pretty much out of style.
There's no real plot here, though. The film is simply about two Chinese women putting on a show of Chinese animation. The animation has no story to tell either: things morph together into others, people and objects split apart, sometimes things transform into other things. It's just fun animation. Nothing outstanding but it's pretty good animation for 1908. Too bad Chomón wasn't doing stuff like this earlier, because by 1908 trick films were pretty much out of style.