List of film serials
A list of film serials by year of release.
1910s
Production Company | Title | Chapters | Genre | Director | Cast | Notes |
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1910 | ||||||
Deutsche Vitaskop GmbH | Arsene Lupin Contra Sherlock Holmes | 5 | Mystery | Paul Otto as Lupin and Viggo Larsen as Holmes | German | |
1912 | ||||||
Edison Studios | What Happened to Mary? | 12 | Drama | Charles Brabin | Mary Fuller | Episodes 1–4: Survival status unclear.[3]
Episodes 5–8, 10, 11: Museum of Modern Art[4] Episode 9: Library of Congress[4] Episode 12: Survival status unclear[3] Other sources indicate a print exists yet provides no specifics[5] |
1913 | ||||||
Selig Polyscope Company | The Adventures of Kathlyn | 13 | Adventure | Francis J. Grandon | Kathlyn Williams | Presumed lost. Considered to be the first "cliffhanger" serial.[6] |
Edison Studios | Who Will Marry Mary? | 6 | Drama | Mary Fuller | Incomplete prints of episodes one and five survive[7] | |
Société des Etablissements L. Gaumont | Fantômas | 5 | Mystery | Louis Feuillade | René Navarre | French
Print exists.[8][9] Released on Blu-ray by Kino Lorber 2016.[10] |
1914 | ||||||
Pathé | The Perils of Pauline | 20 | Adventure | Louis J. Gasnier and Donald MacKenzie | Pearl White | First Pathé serial; known to exist only in a shortened 9-chapter version (approx. 214 minutes)[11] |
Wharton Studio | The Exploits of Elaine | 14 | Mystery | George B. Seitz | Pearl White, Arnold Daly, Sheldon Lewis | Survival status: Prints exist in the George Eastman Museum film archive [incomplete 35mm positive]; and (of some of the episodes, including episodes 8-10) [16mm reduction positives, 8mm reduction positives][12] |
Kalem Company | The Hazards of Helen | 119 | Railroad | J. P. McGowan and James D. Davis | Helen Holmes and Helen Gibson | 119 chapters – At 23.8 hours, this is considered to be the longest serial ever made. Each episode was about 12 minutes. Very little of it survives.[13] |
Edison Studios | The Active Life of Dolly of the Dailies | 12 | Girl Reporter | Walter Edwin | Mary Fuller | Only two episodes, 5 & 10, are known to exist. |
The Man Who Disappeared | 12 | Drama | Charles Brabin | Marc McDermott | (considered lost) | |
Reliance Motion Picture Studio/Mutual Film | Our Mutual Girl | 52 | Drama | John W. Noble, Oscar Eagle | Norma Phillips | |
Thanhouser Film Corporation | The Million Dollar Mystery | 23 | Mystery | Howell Hansel | Florence La Badie, Marguerite Snow, James Cruze, Sidney Bracey | (considered lost) |
Zudora | 20 | Drama | Howell Hansel | Marguerite Snow, James Cruze | ||
Universal Film Manufacturing Co. | Lucille Love, Girl of Mystery | 15 | Spy | Francis Ford | Grace Cunard, Francis Ford | First Universal serial; an incomplete print of 4 chapters exists |
The Master Key | 15 | Adventure | Robert Z. Leonard | Robert Z. Leonard, Ella Hall | (only episode 5 survives in the Library of Congress) | |
Universal Pictures | The Trey o' Hearts | 15 | Crime | Wilfred Lucas and Henry MacRae | Cleo Madison, George Larkin | Based on a novel by Louis Joseph Vance (considered lost) |
Lubin Manufacturing Company | The Beloved Adventurer | 15 | Drama | Arthur V. Johnson | Arthur V. Johnson, Lottie Briscoe | |
1915 | ||||||
Pathé & Wharton Studio | The New Exploits of Elaine | 10 | Crime | Louis J. Gasnier, Leopold Wharton and Theodore Wharton | Pearl White | (considered lost) |
The Romance of Elaine | 12 | Spy | George B. Seitz, Leopold Wharton and Theodore Wharton | Pearl White, Lionel Barrymore, Creighton Hale | Based on the novel by Arthur B. Reeve (considered lost) | |
Balboa Amusement Producing Company | Neal of the Navy | 14 | Maritime | William Bertram and W.M. Harvey | Lillian Lorraine, William Courtleigh Jr. | (considered lost) |
The Red Circle | 14 | Drama | Sherwood MacDonald | Ruth Roland | (only a brief trailer survives) | |
American Film Company | The Diamond From the Sky | 30 | Adventure | Jacques Jaccard and William Desmond Taylor | Lottie Pickford | (considered lost) |
Reliance Film Company | Runaway June | 15 | Drama | Oscar Eagle | Norma Phillips | |
Kalem Company | The Ventures of Marguerite | 16 | Crime | Robert Ellis, John Mackin and Hamilton Smith | Marguerite Courtot | |
Universal Film Manufacturing Co. | The Black Box | 15 | Mystery | Otis Turner | Herbert Rawlinson | (considered lost); written by E. Phillips Oppenheim; a novelization of the serial with photos was published |
The Broken Coin | 22 | Adventure | Francis Ford | Grace Cunard, Francis Ford | Based on a story by Emerson Hough (considered lost) | |
Graft | 20 | Crime | George Lessey and Richard Stanton | Hobart Henley, Jane Novak | (considered lost) | |
Under the Crescent | 6 | Adventure | Burton L. King | Ola Humphrey | Based on the biography of actress Ola Humphrey (considered lost) | |
Power Picture Plays | The Mysterious Lady Baffles and Detective Duck | 11 | Comedy | Allen Curtis | Gale Henry, Max Asher | |
Lubin Manufacturing Company | The Road o'Strife | 15 | Drama | Howell Hansel and John Ince | Crane Wilbur, Mary Charleson, Jack Standing | |
Signal Film Corporation | The Girl and the Game | 15 | Railroad | J. P. McGowan | Helen Holmes, Leo D. Maloney, J. P. McGowan | |
Vitagraph Company of America | The Fates and Flora Fourflush | 3 | Comedy | Wally Van | Clara Kimball Young | |
The Goddess | 15 | Drama | Ralph Ince | Anita Stewart | ||
Société des Etablissements L. Gaumont | Les Vampires | 10 | Mystery | Louis Feuillade | Musidora | French (available on DVD) |
1916 | ||||||
Wharton Studio | The Mysteries of Myra | 15 | Horror | Leopold Wharton and Theodore Wharton | Howard Estabrook, Jean Sothern | |
The Grip of Evil | 14 | Drama | W.A.S. Douglas and Harry Harvey | Jackie Saunders, Roland Bottomley | ||
The Iron Claw | 20 | Mystery | George B. Seitz | Pearl White | A print of episode 7 exists[14] | |
Wharton Studio/Hearst | Beatrice Fairfax | 15 | Girl Reporter | Leopold Wharton and Theodore Wharton | Grace Darling, Harry Fox | (Available on DVD) |
Astra Film Corporation/Pathé | Pearl of the Army | 15 | War | Edward José | Pearl White | (Available on DVD) |
The Shielding Shadow | 15 | Mystery | Louis J. Gasnier and Donald MacKenzie | Grace Darmond, Ralph Kellard, Léon Bary | (Only chapters 4, 10, 11, 14 and 15 exist)[15] | |
Erbograph/Consolidated Film Company | The Crimson Stain Mystery | 16 | Horror | T. Hayes Hunter | Maurice Costello, Ethel Grandin | (Exists in incomplete form)[15] |
Kleine Productions Inc. | Gloria's Romance | 20 | Drama | Colin Campbell and Walter Edwin | Billie Burke | (considered lost) |
Metro Pictures Corporation | The Great Secret | 18 | Mystery | Christy Cabanne | Francis X. Bushman, Beverly Bayne | (considered lost) |
Deutsche Bioscop | Homunculus | 6 | Science fiction | Otto Rippert | Olaf Fønss | German |
Société des Etablissements L. Gaumont | Judex | 12 | Crime | Louis Feuillade | René Cresté, Musidora | French (available on DVD) |
L'X Noir | Léonce Perret | French | ||||
Niagara Film Studios | Perils of Our Girl Reporters | 15 | Girl reporter | George Terwilliger | ||
American Film Company | The Sequel to the Diamond From the Sky | 4 | Drama | Edward Sloman | Rhea Mitchell | (considered lost) |
The Secret of the Submarine | 15 | Spy | George L. Sargent | Juanita Hansen, Tom Chatterton | (considered lost) | |
The Scarlet Runner | 12 | William P. S. Earle and Wally Van | Earle Williams | (considered lost) | ||
Essanay Film Manufacturing Company. | The Strange Case of Mary Page | 15 | Mystery | J. Charles Haydon | Henry B. Walthall, Edna Mayo | (considered lost) |
Signal Film Corporation | The Yellow Menace | 16 | William Steiner | Edwin Stevens | ||
Lass of the Lumberlands | 15 | Western | J. P. McGowan | Helen Holmes | (considered lost) | |
Universal Film Manufacturing Co. | The Adventures of Peg o' the Ring | 15 | Circus | Francis Ford and Jacques Jaccard | Grace Cunard, Francis Ford | (considered lost) |
Liberty | 20 | Western | Henry MacRae | Marie Walcamp | First purely Western Serial ever made (considered lost)[16] | |
Vitagraph Company of America | The Purple Mask | 16 | Mystery | Francis Ford and Grace Cunard | Grace Cunard, Francis Ford | |
The Secret Kingdom | 15 | Fantasy | Charles Brabin | Charles Richman, Dorothy Kelly, Arline Pretty, Joseph Kilgour | ||
1917 | ||||||
Astra Film Corporation/Pathé | The Fatal Ring | 20 | Crime | George B. Seitz | Pearl White | (A complete print may exist in the UCLA Film and Television Archive film archive)[17] |
The Hidden Hand | 15 | Mystery | James Vincent | Doris Kenyon | (considered lost) | |
The Mystery of the Double Cross | 15 | Mystery | Louis J. Gasnier and William Parke | Mollie King, Léon Bary | (Available on DVD) | |
The Seven Pearls | 15 | Adventure | Louis J. Gasnier and Donald MacKenzie | Mollie King, Creighton Hale, Léon Bary | (only fragments exist in the Library of Congress) | |
Balboa Amusement Producing Company | The Neglected Wife | 15 | Drama | William Bertram | Ruth Roland | (A complete print exists)[18] |
Wharton Studio/International Film Service Inc. | Patria | 15 | War | Jacques Jaccard, Leopold Wharton and Theodore Wharton | Irene Castle | Based on the novel The Last of the Fighting Channings by Louis Joseph Vance; only episodes 1-4 and 10 exist.[19] |
Signal Film Corporation | The Lost Express | 15 | Railroad | J. P. McGowan | Helen Holmes | |
The Railroad Raiders | 15 | Railroad | J. P. McGowan | Helen Holmes | ||
Monmouth Film Corporation | Jimmie Dale Alias the Grey Seal | 16 | Mystery | Harry McRae Webster | E.K. Lincoln, Doris Mitchell, Edna Hunter, Paul Panzer | |
Paramount Pictures | Who Is Number One? | 15 | Mystery | William Bertram | Kathleen Clifford | (considered lost) |
Universal Film Manufacturing Co. | The Mystery Ship | 18 | Maritime | Henry MacRae | Ben F. Wilson, Neva Gerber | (considered lost) |
The Red Ace | 16 | War | Jacques Jaccard | Marie Walcamp | (Only 11 of the 15 chapters exist in the Library of Congress)[20] | |
The Gray Ghost | 16 | Mystery | Stuart Paton | Harry Carter, Priscilla Dean, Emory Johnson, Eddie Polo | (considered lost) | |
Voice on the Wire | 15 | Mystery | Stuart Paton | Ben F. Wilson, Neva Gerber, Joseph W. Girard | (considered lost) | |
Vitagraph Company of America | The Fighting Trail | 15 | Western | William Duncan | William Duncan, Carol Holloway | (considered lost)[21] |
Vengeance and the Woman | 15 | William Duncan and Laurence Trimble | William Duncan, Carol Holloway | |||
1918 | ||||||
Astra Film Corporation/Pathé | Hands Up! | 15 | Western | Louis J. Gasnier and James W. Horne | Ruth Roland | (considered lost) |
The House of Hate | 20 | Mystery | George B. Seitz | Pearl White, Antonio Moreno | (A restored version is available on DVD) | |
Western Photoplays Inc. | Wolves of Kultur | 15 | War | Joseph A. Golden | Leah Baird, Sheldon Lewis, Charles Hutchison | (Only 7 of the 15 chapters still exist)[22] |
Jaxon Film Corporation | A Daughter of Uncle Sam | 12 | War | James C. Morton | ||
Wharton Studio | The Eagle's Eye | 20 | War | George Lessey, Wellington A. Playter, Leopold Wharton and Theodore Wharton | King Baggot, Marguerite Snow | (considered lost) |
Rolfe Photoplays | The Master Mystery | 15 | Mystery, Science fiction | Harry Grossman and Burton L. King | Harry Houdini | (Incomplete, reconstructed version available on DVD)[23] |
Burston Films Inc. | The Silent Mystery | 15 | Mystery | Francis Ford | Francis Ford, Mae Gaston, Rosemary Theby | (considered lost) |
Universal Film Manufacturing Co. | The Brass Bullet | 18 | Maritime | Ben F. Wilson | Juanita Hansen, Jack Mulhall | (considered lost) |
Bull's Eye | 18 | Western | James W. Horne | Eddie Polo | (considered lost) | |
The Lion's Claws | 18 | Adventure | Harry Harvey and Jacques Jaccard | Marie Walcamp | Featured 18 episodes (considered lost) | |
Lure of the Circus | 18 | Circus | J. P. McGowan | Eddie Polo | (Only an edited feature version exists)[24] | |
The Red Glove | 18 | Western | J. P. McGowan | Marie Walcamp | (considered lost) | |
Vitagraph Company of America | A Fight for Millions | 15 | Western | William Duncan | William Duncan, Edith Johnson, Joe Ryan | |
The Iron Test | 15 | Circus | Robert N. Bradbury and Paul Hurst | Antonio Moreno, Carol Holloway | ||
A Woman in the Web | 15 | Paul Hurst and David Smith | Hedda Nova | (considered lost) | ||
Société des Etablissements L. Gaumont | Tih Minh | 12 | Mystery | Louis Feuillade | René Cresté, Mary Harald | French (A complete print exists)[25] |
1919 | ||||||
Astra Film Corporation/Pathé | The Adventures of Ruth | 15 | Crime | George Marshall | Ruth Roland | (considered lost) |
Bound and Gagged | 10 | Comedy | George B. Seitz | George B. Seitz, Marguerite Courtot | Four episodes survive in the Library of Congress[26] | |
The Lightning Raider | 15 | Crime | George B. Seitz | Pearl White, Boris Karloff | Survives in an incomplete state preserved at the Library of Congress[27] | |
Terror of the Range | 7 | Western | Stuart Paton | George Larkin, Betty Compson | (considered lost) | |
The Tiger's Trail | 15 | Mystery | Robert Ellis, Louis J. Gasnier and Paul Hurst | Ruth Roland | ||
George B. Seitz Productions | The Black Secret | 15 | Spy | George B. Seitz | Pearl White | |
Western Photoplays Inc. | The Great Gamble | 15 | Crime | Joseph A. Golden | Charles Hutchison, Anna Luther | |
Oliver Films Inc. | The Carter Case | 15 | Mystery | William F. Haddock and Donald MacKenzie | Herbert Rawlinson, Marguerite Marsh | A Craig Kennedy mystery |
Great Western Film Producing Company | Elmo the Mighty | 18 | Northern | Henry MacRae | Elmo Lincoln, Grace Cunard | |
SLK Serial Corporation | The Fatal Fortune | 15 | Maritime | Donald MacKenzie and Frank Wunderlee | Helen Holmes | |
National Film Corporation of America | Lightning Bryce | 15 | Western, Horror | Paul Hurst | Ann Little, Jack Hoxie | |
Wisteria Productions | The Lurking Peril | 15 | Horror | George Morgan | George Larkin, Anna Luther | |
Burston Films Inc. | The Mystery of 13 | 15 | Mystery | Francis Ford | Francis Ford, Rosemary Theby | |
American Lifeograph Company | The Perils of Thunder Mountain | 15 | Northern | Robert N. Bradbury and W.J. Burman | Antonio Moreno, Carol Holloway | |
Decla Bioscop AG | The Spiders | 2 | Fantasy Adventure |
Fritz Lang | Carl de Vogt, Lil Dagover | German 4 feature-length episodes were planned, but only 2 were completed |
Serico Producing Company Inc. | A Woman in Grey | 15 | Mystery | James Vincent | Arline Pretty, Henry G. Sell | |
Universal Film Manufacturing Co. | The Great Radium Mystery | 18 | Mystery | Robert Broadwell and Robert F. Hill | Eileen Sedgwick, Cleo Madison, Bob Reeves | |
The Lion Man | 18 | Mystery | Albert Russell and Jack Wells | Kathleen O'Connor, Jack Perrin, J. Barney Sherry, Gertrude Astor | ||
The Midnight Man | 18 | James W. Horne | James J. Corbett | |||
Shamrock Photoplay Corporation | The Masked Rider | 15 | Western | Aubrey M. Kennedy | Harry Myers, Ruth Stonehouse, Paul Panzer, Boris Karloff | |
Hallmark Pictures Corporation | The Trail of the Octopus | 15 | Mystery | Duke Worne | Ben F. Wilson, Neva Gerber | |
Vitagraph Company of America | Man of Might | 15 | Maritime | William Duncan and Clifford Smith | William Duncan | |
Smashing Barriers | 15 | Western | William Duncan | William Duncan | ||
Société des Etablissements L. Gaumont | Barrabas | 12 | Louis Feuillade | French |
1920s
1930s
1940s
1950s
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See also
- Serial (film)
- List of film serials by studio
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