The Adventures of Kathlyn
The daughter of an adventurer in India is kidnapped by a native king, whom she is forced to marry. She has several adventures battling natives and wild animals.
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"The popularity in movie serials took a huge leap upon the release of the first episode of December 1913's "The Adventures of Kathlyn." Just the second film serial in the United States, each of Selig Polyscope Company's 13 programs ended in a cliffhanger, the first to do so. A year earlier, in July 1912, cinematic theaters around the country were introduced by the Edison Studios to the concept of movie serials with "What Happened To Mary." That series, however, was compartmentalized into separate stand alone 15-minute movies with the same characters, with all the ..."
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This is considered to be the first true "cliffhanger" serial. Many early serials were more like what would today be called a series--each episode's story was self-contained. However, each episode of this serial had a suspenseful ending (i.e., a "cliffhanger"), and viewers had to return to the theater to watch the next chapter and see how the characters escaped the danger in which they were left.
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The daughter of an adventurer in India is kidnapped by a native king, whom she is forced to marry. She has several adventures battling natives and wild animals.