Library to Screen Serials

Tompkins
County Public Library, in partnership with Ithaca Made Movies, will host
“Serial Saturdays,” screenings of family-friendly short films, monthly
beginning October 6 from 1 to 3 p.m. in the Library’s BorgWarner Community
Room.

Made
popular in the mid-1900s, serial films—also known as chapter plays—were feature
films broken into short segments or chapters.  Theaters would show one
chapter