The Serial Squadron Cinema Cliffhanger Archive

Shazam! And welcome to the Serial Squadron Archive, since 1998, the home of the classic cliffhanger movie serials on the web and publisher of the great lost serial restorations!

SOUND SERIALS
1929-1956
New digital restorations on DVD available for sale

SILENT SERIALS
1912-1929
Restored to DVD, audio and/or photonovel formats
Latest Release:
UNDER THE CRESCENT

PUBLICATIONS
Cliffhanger comics, art, posters and calendars
Recent releases:
Cliffhanger Treasury #2 and the 2012 Cliffhanger Calendar!

FILM ARCHIVE
The Squadron Archive's Not-For-Profit Wing: Our library of holdings on 35mm, 16mm, 8mm, digital transfers, laserdisc & videotape.

ARCHIVE DVDs
Copies of some restored/preserved titles are available for purposes of research or study. DARKEST AFRICA, THE LOST SPECIAL and THE VANISHING SHADOW have just been added to the list.

VIEWABLE ARCHIVE:
THE SERIAL CHANNEL
Video of past rare serial restoration projects and public domain titles viewable free online

Recent Addition:

Would you attend a SerialFest 2012 event? Click here to discuss the topic

PREORDER NOW!
The rare 1937 serial
BLAKE OF SCOTLAND YARD
Restored Edition

We have finally received the entire transfer and will now be able to finish this restoration. You will receive an email about a week from now when your DVD ships!


Click the link below to view the restoration of Chapter 1 in progress (Note: this is the "before picture," which still includes some errors to be corrected, not the finished work!)

2012 RELEASE SCHEDULE
& ARCHIVE ADDITIONS

Subject to change as necessary for project completion -- finished publications & projects in production with web pages appear as links

FEBRUARY 2012

BLAKE OF SCOTLAND YARD DVD

CLIFFHANGER TREASURY #3

THE VOICE FROM THE SKY
Book & DVD

MARCH 2012

THE MYSTERY MIND Book
and Audio Serial w/ Adrian Booth

PATRIA DVD & Book

DRUMS OF FU MANCHU DVD

APRIL 2012

CLIFFHANGER TREASURY #4

THE MASKED RIDER
Book and Vol. 3 DVD

ADVENTURES OF TARZAN
Complete 10-Episode Edition on DVD

AUDIO CLIFFHANGERS
Great collections of older programs, re-creations of lost silent serials & new original cliffhangers

MEMBERSHIP & PREMIUMS
T-Shirts, Mugs & Merchandise

ONLINE MOVIE SERIAL CHATS are held Wednesday and Sunday Evenings at 9pm US EST in
THE LONE RANGER'S CAVE


"I am the serial. I am the black sheep of the motion picture family and the reviled of critics. I am the soulless one with no moral, no character, no uplift. I am ashamed . . . Ah me, if only I could be respectable!" -- THE NEW YORK DRAMATIC Mirror, 1916