The Adventures of Kathlyn
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The Adventures of Kathlyn is an American motion picture serial released on December 29, 1913, by the Selig Polyscope Company. An adventure serial filmed in Chicago, Illinois, its thirteen episodes wer
The Adventures of Kathlyn (1914 book)
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 Adventures of Kathlyn
…was playing in theaters. The Adventures of Kathlyn was the second serial ever made by an American film studio, and is considered to be the first of the cliffhanger serials that became enormously popular during the next decade. The success of the serial spawned a 1916 feature-length film of the same title with…
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".