Directory of Serials Resources

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This category is for links to specific movie serials and sites with general information on the Serial genre or film style.
Serials were short adventure films that continued over several chapters or episodes in order to entice the audience back to the theater the next week. The serials came to be known as "cliffhangers" because the hero or heroine would face inescapable peril at the end of each episode only to be miraculously rescued at the beginning of the next one. This genre of film style started in the silent movie era, with the classic serials produced in the 1930s and 40s and ending in the 1950s.

Subcategories

• Flash Gordon

Resources in This Category

• Cliffhanger Corner

  http://members.tripod.com/~fedora_2/
  Detailed synopsis of each chapter of The Masked Marvel, with numerous of photos.

• Cliffhangers

  http://www.imagesjournal.com/issue04/infocus.htm
  In its purest form, the serial belongs to another era. Extensive article with photos and animated GIFs.

• Greatest Serial Films

  http://www.filmsite.org/serialfilms.html
  Looks at the genre from "The Perils of Pauline" up through the 1950s.

• Silent and Sound Cliffhanger Serials

  http://www.themaverick.us/home/serial.html
  General genre information and comprehensive listings of serials categorized by year, studio and alphabetically.

• The Serial Squadron

  http://www.serialsquadron.com/
  Fan club of cliffhangers, with message boards devoted to specific serials.

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