Welcome to the Squadron Clubhouse
Greetings,
cliffhanger fans!
Welcome to the international movie, TV and radio chapter
play appreciation society! Our members, dedicated to the
preservation and restoration of the lost form of the movie
serial. participate in film restoration pledge drives, chat
weekly, and produce the world's only all-cliffhanger film
festival every year, SerialFest! You're invited to join in,
participate, and contribute to upcoming events and
projects.
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and get your own Squadron name!
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events.
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Chat
weekly on Wednesday and Sunday evenings with other Squadron
members!
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Squadron
Officers
DIRECTOR
/DVD RESTORATIONS
Dr. Grood
CUSTOMER
SERVICE
Prince Barin
WEB
FORUM MODERATOR
The
Black Whip
HONORARY
HIGH PRIESTESS
Vultura
PLEDGE
DRIVE CHAIRMAN & SERIALFEST TREASURER
SixFigures
RESEARCH
ASSOCIATES
Dr. Daka
Bob You
The Lightning
Ted Wharton, Tompkins County Public Library
James D'Arc of the BYU Film Archive
The Library of Congress
STUNT
COORDINATOR
Wrangler Rick Deacon
INTELLIGENCE
OFFICER AND LIVE SERIAL-VIEWING CHAT MODERATOR
Bulldog Drummond
Squadron
History & Accomplishments
2010:
Volume 2 of
Beatrice
Fairfax, which includes
Olive Thomas's first screen role, is released on DVD and
production begins on a new version of The Mysteries of
Myra as well as the
restoration of its 1916 novel counterpart. The
Cliffhanger
Treasury presents
restored comic book stories based on serial
characters
2009:
The
Serialfest DVD Magazine begins publication, including chapters of
the long-lost Isle of Sunken
Gold, the
reconstructed The Voice from the
Sky and other
rarities. The Masked Rider
DVD series begins release.
Book versions of the lost serials The Trey
O'Hearts,
The Black
Box,
The Strange
Case of Mary Page and Under the
Crescent are released.
Dr. Grood's restoration of The Lone Ranger
is released on DVD to great
acclaim.
2008:
Daredevils
of the West is
presented at SerialFest, shown for the first time since the
1940s.
Dr. Grood releases the Serialfest 2008
Annual
2007:
The Squadron releases
Undersea
Kingdom and other
titles on DVD
SerialFest 2007
features the restored version
of The Lone Ranger Rides
Again which is also
released on DVD
and the complete restored King of the
Mounties on
DVD
2006:
SerialFest
2006 features special
guest Adrian Booth
and the introduction of
the Cliffhanger Card Game.
DVD Releases
of Fighting Marines, The
Vanishing Legion, The Jungle Princess, The Lost Serial
Collection, The Sign of the Wolf, Rocket Ship
and audio DVDs
The Blue
Beetle, Shadow of Fu Manchu, Masters of Horror
and many others.
2005:
SerialFest
2005 a lost serial and
part 2 of Masked Rider
are shown
Robin Hood and the Prince of Aragon performed
Squadron hosts Ithaca-made Movies
Website
2004: Digital reconstruction/restoration
of Adventures of
Tarzan
First-ever DVD release of
Gang
Busters
The Masked Rider
is seen onscreen for first
time in 85 years at SerialFest 2004
Digital
restoration of Beatrice Fairfax
(1916)
2003: Digital restoration of The Phantom
Empire
SerialFest 2003 in Newtown Pa.;
King of the
Mounties,
Guest
Terry
Harbin gives
presentation on serials filmed in Ithaca, New York,
Guest Sam Sherman
shows clips from
The
Chinatown Mystery
2002:
The Squadron releases the
first-ever-created DVD edition of Zorro's Fighting
Legion
SerialFest 2002,
produced by the Serial
Squadron and Pittsburgh Filmmakers, hosted by
ToBeContinued,
with speeches by club
president Bonga,
is held in Pittsburgh with guest
John
Duncan
Dr. Grood directs premiere of John Balderston's 1930
play Frankenstein
2001: SerialFest
2001, first-ever
all-serial film festival, hosted in Toronto by club
president Henry Miyamoto
Release of
original radio serial The Dangers of
Daphne
2000:
The Squadron forges ahead with
new members as well as old, and new projects, including a
member pledge drive to sponsor the world's first
release Zorro's Fighting
Legion on DVD.
Serial of the
Month connects serial
fans with collectors
Dr. Grood restores classic radio dramas
1999:
Charter Squadron member
Sgt.
Ward develops
the Yak
Awards
January 1998:
Dr. Grood develops, designs
and posts The Serial
Squadron, first-ever
all-cliffhanger serial website, the name of which is coined
by his father R. W. Stedman
after Dr. Grood suggests that
it resemble the Captain Midnight Secret Squadron
club. Online chats
begin; chat room guests
include author Frank Thompson
and relatives of serial
players and stunt performers such as Tom Tyler
and Helen
Thurston.
January
1994-1999: Dr. Grood researches and acquires copies
of all known movie serials, assembling complete cast and
production staff lists from original film sources wherever
possible, and begins developing print publications intended
for release at an as-yet-unnamed website.
