Cliffhanger
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A cliffhanger is a plot device in fiction that places a main character in an unresolved, precarious situation—such as a sudden danger, a difficult dilemma, or a shocking revelation—at the conclusion o
The 1914 film serial Perils of Pauline was shown in bi-weekly installments and ended with a cliffhanger.
Dickens and Little Nell statue in Philadelphia
Advertisement for Great Expectations serialised in the British weekly magazine All the Year Round, 1860. The advert displays the plot device "to be continued".
The Perils of Pauline is a 1914 American melodrama film serial produced by William Randolph Hearst and released by the Eclectic Film Company, an American subsidiary of the French group Pathé Frères, s
Cliffhanger
…centre of film production, the cliffs facing New York and the Hudson River were frequently used as film locations. The most notable of these films was The Perils of Pauline, a serial which helped popularise the term "cliffhanger". In them, the serial would often end suddenly leaving actress Pearl White's Pauline character…
Scene from The Perils of Pauline
Sheet music cover for a song inspired by the serial