Serial film
SHORT SUBJECT FILM ORIGINALLY SHOWN IN THEATERS IN CONJUNCTION WITH A FEATURE FILM
Movie Serials; Movie serial; Film serial; Serial film (genre); Serial (film); Movie serials; Movie-serial; Film serials
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. Generally, 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.