In the 1930’s millions of people sat on the edges of their seats as Flash Gordon battled Ming the Merciless week after week. In the 1990’s, audiences watch Flash and his gang duke it out with the forces of evil on an animated battleground. Combining footage of the original black and white serial with the new action-packed animated series, this segment show how the strength of good character can keep a hero on his feet for seventy years!/Stop-motion animation involves the manual positioning of models, which are then shot one frame at a time and replayed at 24 frames a second to simulate normal movement. SPLAT! goes behind the scenes to show the fascinating process behind several pieces of stop-motion animation. Often taking weeks of painstaking work to create mere minutes of finished footage, the animators who coax life from inanimate objects prefer not to describe their work as "playing with dolls."/The Ottawa Animation Festival is the largest of its type in the world. Animators from e