What was the first sequel ever done for a Motion Picture movie?
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The Golem: How He Came Into The World, 1920.
was the sequel to…
The Golem, 1915.
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not that I can verify. but that sounds like a prequel to me.
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OMG.
This is the third or fourth thread this week that I wanted to post and someone else did before me.
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Also, expect this to be moved to Cafe soon.
Also, when answering this, be sure to tell the difference between sequel and serial.
I would give the following qualifiers:
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Both the first and second movie had to be a-list movies (no “Night of the Mummies” part 7)
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The sequel had to be completely unexpected. (if it was part of a book series it don’t count. So bye bye Tarzan et al)
According to IMDb, Paul Wegener did another Golem film in 1917, i.e. after his 1915 film but before the 1920 film. The 1920 film does sound like a serial, but the 1917 film doesn’t.
On second thoughts, and on closer reading, the Golem stuff may not qualify. The 1920 film is more of a re-make, while the 1917 film is a sort-of sequel that follows the subsequent lives of the actors rather than the characters.
Under the qualifications, Valentino’s “Son of the Shiek” (1926) clearly qualifies as a sequel to “The Shiek.”
Anyone have a list of early early Edison films? If any two of them featured the same person doing different things, could the second be considered a sequel to the first?
It’s hard to pin down firsts, but in this case, it’s pretty cut-and dried:
L’ arroseur arrosé (The Sprayer Sprayed, 1895), was remade as The Bad Boy and the Gardener in 1896, and as A Practical Joke in 1898.
I don’t think I ever saw the Golem. Was Robert Redford in it? 
Eve, are those sequals or remakes?
Hmmm, dunno if that’s really clear. Is it the same boy character playing a prank, or a different boy?
Um, I’m confused. What’s the difference between a sequel and a serial (movie, that is)?