# In Sargent's 1916 Chapter LX (Series and Serials), what is the difference between a series and a serial, what forms does he list, and how do the installments of each end?

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Sargent says both series and serial are released in weekly installments, but a serial presents sections of one continuous story while a series has a looser relation between its parts. He lists three series forms (a shared theme with separate casts, a shared problem with separate stories, a recurring central character with a separate adventure each time), calls the self-contained installment the most successful, and describes "Wallingford" as a hybrid in which each story is fairly complete but the whole builds to a grand climax. For the serial proper he describes two forms: each chapter a reasonably complete episode that keeps a continuing question, or each ended at peak suspense so the audience seeks resolution next week. The examples (Gaumont, Pathe-Balboa "Who Pays?", Sherlock Holmes, Wallingford) are his reports of films and are not checked here.

Sargent says both series and serial are released in weekly installments, but a serial presents sections of one continuous story while a series has a looser relation between its parts. He lists three series forms (a shared theme with separate casts, a shared problem with separate stories, a recurring central character with a separate adventure each time), calls the self-contained installment the most successful, and describes "Wallingford" as a hybrid in which each story is fairly complete but the whole builds to a grand climax. For the serial proper he describes two forms: each chapter a reasonably complete episode that keeps a continuing question, or each ended at peak suspense so the audience seeks resolution next week. The examples (Gaumont, Pathe-Balboa "Who Pays?", Sherlock Holmes, Wallingford) are his reports of films and are not checked here.

Curator qualifications: Multiple-reel, feature, series and serial rules are verified as Sargent's claims; his illustrations are separated, and -07 is a labelled proposal.

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- [sourced_fact] Sargent says both series and serial are released in weekly installments, but a serial presents sections of one continuous story while a series has a looser relation between its parts. He lists three series forms (a shared theme with separate casts, a shared problem with separate stories, a recurring central character with a separate adventure each time), calls the self-contained installment the most successful, and describes "Wallingford" as a hybrid in which each story is fairly complete but the whole builds to a grand climax. For the serial proper he describes two forms: each chapter a reasonably complete episode that keeps a continuing question, or each ended at peak suspense so the audience seeks resolution next week. The examples (Gaumont, Pathe-Balboa "Who Pays?", Sherlock Holmes, Wallingford) are his reports of films and are not checked here. · locator: sar.flat (a3cff7eb) offsets per candidate · source: https://archive.org/stream/techniqueofphoto00sarg/techniqueofphoto00sarg_djvu.txt

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