Editing Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars (section)

===''Mars Attacks the World''===
[[Universal Pictures]] also prepared a feature-length version of this serial, which was already ready for release in October 1938 when Orson Welles astounded the country with his ''[[The Mercury Theatre on the Air|Mercury Theatre on the Air]]'' radio production of [[H. G. Wells]]'s ''[[The War of the Worlds (radio)|The War of the Worlds]]''. Universal then quickly had the feature's title changed to ''Mars Attacks the World'', and a week after the Welles broadcast, opened it at a [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] theater as a major premiere event.{{Citation needed|date=May 2019}} The original title for this feature had been ''Rocket Ship'', which was subsequently used for reissues of the first Flash Gordon serial's feature version, which had been originally released under its source serial's title in 1936 in the United Kingdom.