Library to Screen Serials

Tompkins
County Public Library, in partnership with Ithaca Made Movies, will host
“Serial Saturday,” a screening of short films, December 1 at 1 p.m. in the
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, typically ending in a cliffhanger, one week and