text: how do you make a flash film?   hello right first get flash from http://www.macromedia.com (30 day free trial or buy) then go to   ( http://www.flashkit.com 10000s of open source flash files that you can download 1000s of tutorials  forum, font, pictures, and lots more all free )  download so movies and play around with them and read tutorial try and find similar stuff to what you want to make, if you get stuck register and use the forum people are really help on there. you should know how to use flash in no time it is far better than any books, as you learn from seing how it is done.