serial be a low point in film history and the period around the great war be bad for the french film industry and as well . commemorate both be les vampire and probably one of the best remembered serial and the most accessible french motion picture of any kind from it era . serial be banal sensationalism aim at lowbrow taste . they always have be and from their inspection in magazine and newspaper and other cheap literature and which have continue to this day with television . it always be economical promise return costumer look for a satisfying wrap up of previous installment cliffhanger and loose end . usually and the budget for them be quite thrifty . additionally and it doesn not require much imagination if one repackages the same device for each episode and even less if one repackages the same device from previous serial all of which louis feuillade and more or less and do here . feuillade further popularize serial in france and which be probably inescapable anyhow with the flood of american film ( and serial ) into the cinema . for some reason and he seem to have garner more respect than any other maker of chapter play have even to this day . i do not know of any other director mostly know for serial offhand . his picture have have widespread popularity in their day and but also les vampire seem to remain one of the most praised representation of 1910s cinema . it not evident that it have anything to do with a mastery of film making and though while to the contrary and i think that absent . the long take from fix camera position get very boring and especially the scene of extended length those of the character every action represent scaling building and drive off in automobile and how exactly they go about their crime and such and a fellow commenter tedg and others have describe . a other filmmaker do and feuillade alters tint to suggest change of light within the story . other filmmaker and especially those in denmark and actually change the lighting of the scene for the change in light within the scene and which usually require a well position splice to allow for time to alter the lighting scheme . danish filmmaker from around this time tend to avoid editing and camera movement and too and but they replace it with innovation in mise en scène and which aid the camera in create brilliant image and a can edit and movement of the camera . such innovation and staging and composition and or mastery be lack in les vampire . the actor do all the work and and the camera just sit there . you might and but i do not like this serial content and either . it a series of convoluted story line involve a reporter detective and his sidekick mazamette ( play by an awful mugger of an actor ) try to rid paris of irma vep and the underworld criminal gang know a the vampire . to me it seem to be nearly seven hour of each side ineptly attempt to capture and imprison or kill the other . in episode eight represent why do they give mazamette child a gun and and why do they originate such an elaborate scheme to arrest the bad guy in the first place . why would they use a kid . where be a gun in the hand of a decent shot when it should have be in other scene . and and the vampire require a justice to arrive after enough time have be provide for possible escape to declare their prisoner guilty and although and to their credit and they never do that again . anyhow and you see my point . ( summary title take from the serial speaks and new york dramatic mirror and which be quote in the chapter on serial in the oxford history of world cinema . ) .