Editing Flash Gordon (section)

===Film serials===
{{Main|Flash Gordon (serial)|Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars|Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe}}
Flash Gordon was featured in three [[serial film]]s starring [[Buster Crabbe]]: ''[[Flash Gordon (serial)|Flash Gordon]]'' (1936), ''[[Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars]]'' (1938), and ''[[Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe]]'' (1940). The 1936 ''Flash Gordon'' serial was condensed into a feature-length film titled ''Flash Gordon'' or ''Rocket Ship'' or ''Space Soldiers'' or ''Flash Gordon: Spaceship to the Unknown'';<ref>{{IMDb title|27624}}</ref> the 1938 serial into a feature-length film entitled ''Flash Gordon: The Deadly Ray from Mars;'' and the 1940 serial into a feature-length film entitled ''The Purple Death from Outer Space''.

The first Flash Gordon serial remains copyrighted, but the compilation made of the second serial, and the third serial itself are in the public domain.<ref>[https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/75122/rocket-ship#notes Turner Classic Movies]  https://books.google.com/books?id=dQIAoAGnKm0C</ref>