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Film Serial
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A special kind of film that was a mainstay in cinemas from the 1910s to the 1950s. The basic structure is a film that is presented in consecutive installments in a theatre, with the expectation that the audience would come each week to see the whole story through. As such, it was famous for its fight scenes and its cliffhangers. The genre first started with such serials as the silent film The Perils of Pauline. Although some big studios like Universal played the field with the Flash Gordon serials, the most famous and renowned producer of serials was Republic Pictures, especially with the director team of Whitney and English, who produced classics like Daredevils of the Red Circle and The Adventures of Captain Marvel (the first Super Hero film). Eventually, the genre petered out against the competition of television. Furthermore, a common criticism during the genre's waning years was that the focus had shifted from plot and character development to action and stunts, highlighting the importance of the Cliffhanger as a gimmick tool (and also underscoring said gimmick's flaws to boot). But the spirit of the Film Serial lives on whenever a TV show episode cuts to commercial with a cliffhanger — and even more so in the modern era of arc-based plots, or whenever a last-second twist at the end of an episode entices viewers to keep watching. Of those, the first incarnation of Doctor Who (1963-89) is the early example of this programming format with the stories' serial format. The influence of these serials also led to film series such as Star Wars and Indiana Jones, and deliberately campy TV series like Batman (1966). See Compilation Movie for the practice of editing a serial down into a single feature film. See also Two-Fisted Tales, for the print counterpart of the film serial. |
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Radar Men from the Moon (1952, Republic) — another one featured on MST3K, this is the second Jet Pack serial and uses lots of Stock Footage from King Of The Rocketmen. | |
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The Phantom Creeps (1939, Universal): starring Bela Lugosi as a Mad Scientist. Also appeared on MST3K. | |
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The Phantom Empire (Mascot, 1935): Genre-Busting effort combining Western, Musical and Speculative Fiction elements. Also notable as the first theatrical starring role for Gene Autry, the Singing Cowboy. | |
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The Mysterious Mr. M (1946, Universal) — 137th and last Universal film serial | |
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Jungle Queen (1945, Universal) — Ruth Roman, who played the eponymous jungle queen, later became an A-list movie star. | |
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The Adventures of Captain Marvel (1941, Republic) | |
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The Perils of Pauline (1914, General Film Co): notable for not featuring chapter-ending Cliffhangers. That aspect of serials came later. | |
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Another Affectionate Parody was The Adventures of Captain Proton, a holodeck Show Within the Show in Star Trek: Voyager riffing on Flash Gordon and Commando Cody. | |
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The Lone Ranger (1938, Republic): The first of Republic's serials that year. | |
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The New Adventures of Tarzan (1935, Burroughs-Tarzan Enterprises): A Tarzan serial. An independent production financed by Edgar Rice Burroughs himself, meant to compete against the MGM Tarzan features and film serials being produced at the same time. | |
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Lost City of the Jungle (1946, Universal) | |
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The Green Hornet (1940, Universal) The Green Hornet Strikes Again! (1940, Universal — but at the very end of the year, so most episodes aired in 1941) |
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The Fighting Devil Dogs (1938, Republic): notable for including the very first costumed villain, The Lightning, who's said to be the main inspiration behind Darth Vader. | |
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Undersea Kingdom (1936, Republic): starring Ray "Crash" Corrigan. A few episodes appeared on Mystery Science Theater 3000. | |
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The Batman (1943, Columbia): the Caped Crusader's first foray into live action. Also credited with creating the Batcave. Batman and Robin (1949, Columbia): not to be confused with Batman & Robin. |
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The Crimson Ghost (1946, Republic) — 12 part serial telling the story of the eponymous Super Villain and his attempts to steal - and later, recreate - the "Cyclotrode X", a primitive EMP device that will aid in his plans for World Domination. Notable for featuring Clayton Moore, the Lone Ranger himself, as the Crimson Ghost's Dragon. The image of the Crimson Ghost's distinct skull mask was eventually adopted by The Misfits as part of their iconography. | |
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Captain Video: Master of the Stratosphere (1951, Columbia): Based upon the television series. | |
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Terry and the Pirates (1940, Columbia): Based on the famous comic strip. | |
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The Phantom (1943, Columbia) | |
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Batman and Robin (1949, Columbia): not to be confused with Batman & Robin. | |
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Buck Rogers (1939, Universal): Buster Crabbe plays another serial hero. | |
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Flash Gordon (1936, Universal): starring Buster Crabbe (who also played Buck Rogers). | |
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Les Vampires (1915, Gaumont) | |
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