Tompkins
County Public Library, in partnership with Ithaca Made Movies, will host
“Serial Saturday,” a screening of short films, December 1 at 1 p.m. in the
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 own 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.
This program will feature episodes of the more than 90-year-old films, “The Trail of the Octopus”, “The Masked Rider,” the locally-filmed “Beatrice Fairfax” and the newly-restored, Ithaca-made “Patria.”
“Serial Saturday” is free and open to the public. 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 own 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.
This program will feature episodes of the more than 90-year-old films, “The Trail of the Octopus”, “The Masked Rider,” the locally-filmed “Beatrice Fairfax” and the newly-restored, Ithaca-made “Patria.”
“Serial Saturday” is free and open to the public. For more information, visit http://www.ithacamademovies.com.
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