When did they start making sequels

[yvr girl]

The first true sequel I can think of is The Godfather II. I know they make multiple 'Bond' movies, but they aren't really sequels.

[xmas74]

1. Godfather is actually a trilogy.

I can't guess on a true sequel. Serials were common in the thirties.

[Critters2]

2. Only if you consider Godfather III a film nt

[xmas74]

3. True.

Technically it is one.

I've suffered through worse. Not much worse but I have found worse.

[yvr girl]

5. It was a sequel for a long time

[xmas74]

7. Yes but...

my brother tends to be a purist when it comes to crap like this. If I hadn't pointed out that it had become a trilogy he'd probably have a heartattack.

(A great way to describe my brother: think of the character "Randy" in the Scream movies. Yep, he's that anal.)

Truth be told, the world would have been better off if it had remained just a sequel.

[sir_captain]

4. there are lots of examples of serial movie series and spinoffs

the charlie chan series, for instance. and hitchcock's 1939 film The Lady Vanishes (awesome movie) had a bunch of spinoffs. The first real sequel, though, I believe was to DW Griffith's Birth of a Nation, and was made the next year (I want to say 1916) if memory serves correct.

Those film history classes in college finally come in handy!

[qnr]

6. "Fall of a Nation" was a sequel to "Birth of a Nation" -D.W. Griffith,

1916.

[struggle4progress]

13. Feh! The Hazards of Helen series beats it by a year or two.

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The Hazards of Helen

1914-Melodrama


PLOT DESCRIPTION
Although history has recorded The Hazards of Helen as a serial, the 119 "episodes" -- released by the Kalem company between November 7, 1914 and February 24, 1917 -- were completely self-contained little melodramas, all with a railroad setting. Yes, The Hazards of Helen perfected the runaway box-car and the heroine tied to the railroad tracks, but it never utilized cliffhanging endings. Helen was properly rescued in each chapter, often by future Western hero Leo Maloney. Actress Helen Holmes, a former Keystone starlet, became a major box-office attraction portraying the plucky heroine, but battle fatigue forced her off the series after episode 26, "The Wild Engine." Elsie McLeod substituted until a permanent Helen could be found. She was Helen Gibson, the common-law wife of rodeo rider turned Western actor Hoot Gibson, who actually changed her first name from Rose to Helen for the occasion. Gibson stayed with the series from episode 50 ("A Mile a Minute") onwards, enjoying almost the same success as her predecessor. Helen Holmes' husband, J.P. McGowan, who had directed the first 50 or so episodes, left with his wife and was replaced by one James Davis. A random sample of titles give the flavor of the series: "The Girl Telegrapher's Peril," "In Danger's Path," "The Perils of the Rails," "The Race for a Siding," "The Broken Brake," "The Blocked Track," and the final instalment, "The Side Tracked Sleeper." An impressive array of popular action players did yeoman-duty in The Hazards of Helen, including McGowan, Maloney, Hoot Gibson, Jack Hoxie, and True Boardman. One other actress played the title role, incidentally. Holmes got ill prior to filming episode 18, "The Night Operator at Buxton," and blond Kalem actress Anna Q. Nilsson replaced her. Nilsson, ironically, ultimately enjoyed the greatest success of all the "Helens," becoming a favorite screen vamp in the 1920s. The Swedish-born actress is today perhaps best remembered as one of Gloria Swanson's old Hollywood chums in Sunset Boulevard (1949). ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide

http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?v_id=238602

[Orrex]

8. Fall of a Nation probably takes the prize, but even so

There were numerous Godzilla sequels before Puzo's work hit the screen. They weren't conceived as a series, and at least one (Gigantus) makes clear reference to the original.

[qnr]

9. Yeah, I was kind of wondering about the "Road" pictures too, I seem to

remember some references to earlier ones from time to time. I could be wrong though.

[yvr girl]

12. Technically, they didn't play the same characters in the 'Road'

pictures though. They defintly played the movies tongue in cheek though.

[zonkers]

10. The "Thin Man" films were very popular. And they were very cool.

[Broken_Hero]

11. westerns?

man with no name trilogy? it was implied that Eastwoods character, was the same in good the bad and the ugly, a few dollars more, a fist full of dollars...