Tompkins
County Public Library, in partnership with Ithaca Made Movies, will host
“Serial Saturdays,” screenings of family-friendly short films, monthly
beginning October 6 from 1 to 3 p.m. in the Library’s BorgWarner Community
Room.
Made popular in the mid-1900s, serial films—also known as chapter plays—were feature films broken into short segments or chapters. Theaters would show one chapter, typically ending in a cliffhanger, one week and patrons would return for the next segment the following week.
Ithaca’s Wharton Brothers studio, earned fame for its serial production of “The Exploits of Elaine,” one of the first serial films to earn more than $1 million.
The first “Serial Saturday” at TCPL will feature the first public screening of “The Trail of the Octopus” (chapter one) since its 1920 debut, chapter one of “The Masked Rider,” which hasn’t been shown since 1919, an episode of the locally-filmed “Beatrice Fairfax” series and an episode of the newly-restored, Ithaca-made “Patria.”
“Serial Saturdays” are free and open to the public. The next “Serial Saturday” presentation will be held November 3 from 1 to 3:30 in the BorgWarner Community Room. For more information, visit http://www.ithacamademovies.com.
Made popular in the mid-1900s, serial films—also known as chapter plays—were feature films broken into short segments or chapters. Theaters would show one chapter, typically ending in a cliffhanger, one week and patrons would return for the next segment the following week.
Ithaca’s Wharton Brothers studio, earned fame for its serial production of “The Exploits of Elaine,” one of the first serial films to earn more than $1 million.
The first “Serial Saturday” at TCPL will feature the first public screening of “The Trail of the Octopus” (chapter one) since its 1920 debut, chapter one of “The Masked Rider,” which hasn’t been shown since 1919, an episode of the locally-filmed “Beatrice Fairfax” series and an episode of the newly-restored, Ithaca-made “Patria.”
“Serial Saturdays” are free and open to the public. The next “Serial Saturday” presentation will be held November 3 from 1 to 3:30 in the BorgWarner Community Room. For more information, visit http://www.ithacamademovies.com.
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