[Oldie1]

Movie Serials mainly of the 1940's consist of between 12 to 36 chapters, each Chapter is a full length movie with it's own Chapter Title.

Please ask Database Owners to enter data for Movie Serials, like they do for TV serials.

also

It would be great if Kodi could group all Chapter Movies for each Movie Serial.

[Dangelus]

Please ask Database Owners to enter data for Movie Serials, like they do for TV serials.

Erm I think you'll find it is up to users to make these sort of suggestions. Most of the databases that you are able to use as scrapers in Kodi allow user submissions so if you want something adding you need to submit it.
It is not the responsibility of Team Kodi to do this.

[Klojum]

It would be great if Kodi could group all Chapter Movies for each Movie Serial.

You could create movie sets for your groups of movie chapters. Or use smart playlists.

[Oldie1]

Database Move Serial Chapter Titles and Story-line.

It Appears several Databases can't easily enter data for Movie Serials Chapter Titles, as the Movie Database is not set up for TV Series Episode Naming, which is what Movie Serials are similar to.
There are over 2,000 Movie Serial Chapters which would need to be data entered.


Movie Serial Sets in Kodi.

Select, Copy and Past or Select, Drag and Drop does not appear to work on the kodi library,
Its very tedious using the kodi Library Edit Tool to group about 2,000 Chapters into their Movie Series Sets, one chapter at a time.

[Karellen]

There are over 2,000 Movie Serial Chapters which would need to be data entered.

Can you provide a couple of examples of these movies? Provide the links from IMDB or whichever site you are using.

[Oldie1]

[Karellen]

@Oldie1

I checked both IMDB and TMDB and it seems that these providers have combined the shorts into a single movie.
IMDB... https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032184/
TMDB... https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/254504-...-red-ryder

But there is a Red Ryder Collection... https://www.themoviedb.org/collection/20...collection
How does this fit in with what you are after?

Same with Captain Marvel.
IMDB... https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033317/
TMDB... https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/61020-a...ain-marvel

I did find Captain Marvel at TVDB as a TV Show... https://thetvdb.com/series/the-adventure...ain-marvel
Does this work better for you? It makes sense that it is a TV Show rather than a collection of movies.

Same with Red Ryder... https://thetvdb.com/series/344321-show

For both of these, you would move them into your TV Show folder. Then name the episodes SxxEyy in the order shown at TVDB. Then use the TVDB v4 tv show scraper.

[Oldie1]

Karellen, You are a Genius!

Problem Solved.

Movies Serials Consist of:
1 Complete Series as individual Chapters (Short Movies) often 12, 15, 25, 36 Chapters.
2 Complete Series as a single video all the full Chapters joined into a single Video.
3 Compact Trimed Series all Chapters trimmed (pro-log and epilogue teasers edited out) and joined into a single video.
4 Series Feature Movie (several selected Chapters edited into a Feature Length Movie).

Chapters are sometimes nominal 15mins new content plus 1 minute pro-log (recap of previous Chapter) and 1 minute epilogue (teaser for the next chapter) giving a chapter a run time of 17 mins, some serials have longer Chapters.

Directing a Serial is a Director's challenge they need a cliffhanger of excitement and suspense every 15 minutes in the serial, writers and directors always rise to this artistic challenge and provide audiences excitement and suspense so audiences return every week to their local cinema to see what happens in the next chapter.