Serial Archive Collection

A serial film, film serial (or just serial), movie serial, or chapter play, is a motion picture form popular during the first half of the 20th century, consisting of a series of short subjects exhibited in consecutive order at one theater, generally advancing weekly, until the series is completed. Usually, each serial involves a single set of characters, protagonistic and antagonistic, involved in a single story, which has been edited into chapters after the fashion of serial fiction and the episodes cannot be shown out of order or as a single or a random collection of short subjects.

Each chapter was screened at a movie theater for one week, and ended with a cliffhanger, in which characters found themselves in perilous situations with little apparent chance of escape. Viewers had to return each week to see the cliffhangers resolved and to follow the continuing story. Movie serials were especially popular with children, and for many youths in the first half of the 20th century a typical Saturday matinee at the movies included at least one chapter of a serial, along with animated cartoons, newsreels, and two feature films.

Serial(s) Included in this Collection :

Superman Serial (1948) Atom Man vs Superman Serial (1950) Ace Drummond (1936)  Adventures of Captain Marvel (1941 ) Adventures of Red Ryder (1940)  Batman (1943 ) Batman (1943) - colorized serial feature Batman and Robin (1949)  Batman and Robin (1949) - colorized serial feature Buck Rogers (1939)  Captain America (1944 ) Captain Midnight (1954)  Captain Video, Master of the Stratosphere (1951) Dick Tracy (1937 ) Dick Tracy (1937) - colorized serial feature Dick Tracy Returns (1938)  Dick Tracy Returns (1938) - colorized serial feature Bonus: Dick Tracy Movies 1941-47     Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc. (1941)      Dick Tracy (1945)     Dick Tracy vs Cueball (1946)     Dick Tracy Dilemma (1947)     Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947)

Flash Gordon     (1) Flash Gordon - Space Soldiers (Ep1-13)     (2) Flash Gordon - Trip To Mars (Ep1-15)     (3) Flash Gordon - Conquers The Universe (Ep1-12)     Bonus : Flash Gordon  [1980] Remastered

Drums of FuManchu (1940)

Jungle Queen (1945)

King of the Rocket Men (1949)

Manhunt of Mystery Island (1945)

Mysterious Doctor Satan (1940)

Overland Trail (1960)

Radar Men from the Moon (1952)

Radar Patrol vs Spy King (1949)

Rocky Jones, Space Ranger (1954) Shadow of Chinatown  (1936)

SOS Coast Guard (1937)

The Adventures of Fu Manchu (1956)

The Black Widow (1947) The Crimson Ghost (1946) B&W & Colorized Version The Devil Horse  (1932) 

The Fighting Devil Dogs (1938) The Green Hornet (1940)  The Iron Claw (1941 )

The Lost City (1935) The Master Key (1945) 

The Mysterious Pilot (1937) The Phantom (1943)  The Phantom Empire (1935 )

The Purple Monster Strikes (1945) The Return of Chandu (1934) 

The Shadow (1940)

Zombies of the Stratospare (1952)

As a Bonus : 

Batman and Robin (1949) [Rifftrax Version]

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