Has anyone actually ever...

[Lightning Rod of Hate]

Made something out of flash that was over an HOUR LONG???...I would like to attempt this someday...you know,when I DON'T entirely suck!...

[Propellerhead]

That wouldn't be so nice, it will load very long, you'll have problems with hosting it and it will take weeks to make it! (When it's supposed to be quality of course) I mean, you don't want to make a black dot that chases a green one, right?

[Matt Wilson]

Not possible with Flash's frame limitations, unless your Flash is set to an anemic framerate.

[Lightning Rod of Hate]

Well,at least my question was dignified with an answer ...

[Nar]

I was gonna say the same about frame limitations, but it would be possible (and very annoying) to stream it throughout several flash files automatically linked together. I don't think anyone's done it though.

[Meebs]

Yeah on that note, I saw someone linking some 5 minute episodes togther for continous play, I didnt watch the whole thing because it got boring after the 6th episode seeing as I didn't know when it was going to end, so I don't know how long it was.

[Propellerhead]

The size is the most important thing, if you don't care about the quality of course... you could link more of them together, but as you said, nobody is going to watch a stupid flash for an hour, but if more peoople do it and if it has good sound and good artwork it would be worth making, I once tried to link two files together but I'm just an amateur so you can imagine how it looked... get more people to do it, get a good writer and someone that can make the music, voices,... etc. etc. The first thing you need is... the magic... magic... magic...

[fattymattk]

Made something out of flash that was over an HOUR LONG???

[qwerts]

that's a picture. not a flash file.

[Meebs]

Aye, but it was "Made out of flash"

So sayeth the directions.

[Lightning Rod of Hate]

Okay,ANIMATED in flash!

[fattymattk]

Okay,ANIMATED in flash!

I could make the dot blink or shake or move around if you want

[Jon Hanson]

Make 12 5 minute long flashes, export them as high quality video files, and string them together in a video editing program like final cut. The Foster's pilot was almost an hour long and done in flash.

[Wonchop]

Set your fps to 1 and tween something over 3600 frames
Sorted

[Kisai]

Technical answer:
a) Nobody's computer has enough RAM or processing power to do one flash an hour long and have it stay in sync and not crash. Flash may seem like it can do anything, but one thing it continues to suck about is how long a flash animation can be. You can make a game that lasts an hour, but the flash virtual machine itself sucks greatly at keeping track of resources after a while.
b) Flash is vector based, an hour long flash animation wouldn't necessarily be huge in download, just a lot of processing power over time.

People answer
With the exception of south park the movie, I don't think anyone is willing to sit through an hour of poorly drawn, poorly orchestrated, poorly voiced animation in one sitting. Broken up over several pieces so you can stop/pause, get up, get a snack, use the potty, grab a drink and come back.
People are willing to watch Bonus stage 3 episodes at a time, not 20 at a time. Hell even when I watched it, I thought it was terrible and only came back to it after watching one of the multi-part episodes, when I then gave it a second chance and watched it from the beginning. While it's not the worst animation ever, it's -VERY- hard to get into if introduced through the beginning. That's the risk you take when you base things "getting the reference" to it.

One of the reasons I haven't watched space tree is that it's just so boring, it's talking heads. BS and EJ&B are more than just talking heads. Flash is good at doing "talking heads" because it's very easy and requires no additional creative skill. An hour of "talking heads" is not something I can stand to watch. It's also the same reason why I don't like sprite-rip comics/animations. The same 4 stock images with flapping lips is not very exciting.

Regular non-animated webcomics are also pretty hard to read through in one hour, comics that use primarily the same side view or 3/4 view for all their characters that look nearly all alike become boring to look at. They read fine when you read them a couple at a time, but feel like a chore to read the entire archive to get whatever joke happened in the latest episode.