Many MVCC students and staff enjoy reading graphic novels. Take that reading experience one step further and make it a visual experience. View a different type of movie genre this winter vacation – a classic movie serial.
According to Wikipedia, serials, more specifically known as movie serials, film serials or chapter plays, are short subjects originally shown in theaters in conjunction with a feature film. They were related to pulp magazine serialized fiction.
Also known as chapter plays, they were extended motion pictures broken into a number of segments called “chapters” or “episodes”. Each chapter was screened at the same theater for one week and ended with a cliffhanger in which the hero and heroine found themselves in a perilous situation with little chance of escape. Viewers had to return each week to see the cliffhangers resolved and to follow the continuing story.
Pulp Cereal is the website that will give you a glimpse into the first 50 years of this forgotten movie genre. Watch the Flash Gordon serial, Radar Men from the Moon and many other serials that will have you sitting on the edge of your seat. Will earth be saved from outer space invaders? Will The SOS Coastguard save the sinking ship? Binge viewing is encouraged.
You may also want to check out Links and read some interesting pulp fiction from 1896-1946.
So much to view/read over your break. Enjoy!