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Movie serials began in Europe. In France Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset launched his series of Nick Carter films in 1908, and the idea of the episodic crime adventure was developed particularly by Louis Feuillade in Fantômas (1913–14), Les Vampires (1915), and Judex (1916); in Germany, Homunculus (1916), directed by Otto Rippert, was a six-part horror serial about an artificial creature.
This serial led to the founding of Mascot Pictures and is often listed as Mascot's first serial; it was produced by Nat Levine but released by Universal. 1927 Hercules Film Productions: King of the Jungle: 10 Jungle Webster Cullison: Elmo Lincoln, Sally Long, Gordon Standing considered a lost film (only a trailer exists) Mascot Pictures: Heroes ...
Serial is a 1980 American comedy film produced by Paramount Pictures. The screenplay, by Rich Eustis and Michael Elias, is drawn from the novel The Serial by Cyra McFadden , published in 1977. Produced by Sidney Beckerman and directed by Bill Persky , the film stars Martin Mull , Tuesday Weld , Sally Kellerman , Christopher Lee , Bill Macy ...
Columbia's association with serial producer Larry Darmour and director James Horne lapsed when both men died in 1942. The studio again took over serial production, using its feature-film staff, beginning with The Secret Code. 20 The Valley of Vanishing Men: 1942 15 Western Spencer G. Bennet Bill Elliott 21 Batman: 1943 15 Superhero Lambert Hillyer
Alcala, a convicted serial killer, appeared as a bachelor on an episode of “The Dating Game” in 1978, competing with two other men to win a date with bachelorette Cheryl Bradshaw.
The use of a MacGuffin as a plot device predates the name MacGuffin. The Holy Grail of Arthurian legend has been cited as an early example of a MacGuffin. The Holy Grail is the desired object that is essential to initiate and advance the plot, but the final disposition of the Grail is never revealed, suggesting that the object is not of significance in itself. [8]
In television and radio programming, a serial is a show that has a continuing plot that unfolds in a sequential episode-by-episode fashion. Serials typically follow main story arcs that span entire television seasons or even the complete run of the series, and sometimes spinoffs, which distinguishes them from episodic television that relies on more stand-alone episodes.
The 1914 film serial Perils of Pauline was shown in bi-weekly installments and ended with a cliffhanger.. A cliffhanger or cliffhanger ending is a plot device in fiction which features a main character in a precarious situation, facing a difficult dilemma or confronted with a shocking revelation at the end of an episode of serialized fiction or before a commercial break in a television programme.