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    It's funny how many 'ideas' were tried, but never caught on, them BAM! [no-pun intended![​IMG]] you have a show like "The Flintstones & all it's 'spin-offs'....

    20 years before The Flintstones, there was a small series of 'shorts' called "Stone Age Cartoons" from the Fleischer [Max & Dave] Studio.

    In 1955 Tex Avery released his "The First [Texas] Bad Man", set in a 'modern yet stone-age' city where the 'cowboys' ['cow-folk'??] of the 'west' meet the 'caveman days'.
    Lots of funny goings-on showing how the people lived & coped.
    Then a 'bad guy' shows up & shoots everyone, [man! it's really ridiculously 'violent' when you look above the 'humor'![​IMG]]but the 'bad man' gets caught & incased in a small stone-age jail cell........which years [centuries!!] later shows him still serving his time in a modern [1950s] "Texas" city [Dallas?? Houston??]

    Soon after in 1957, the many-time award winning "Zagreb Film" studio in Croatia [then "Yugoslavia"] released a film called "Encounter in a Dream". This story shows a teenage boy [in the 1950s] looking at a book of 'dinosaur' pictures & listening to a girl singing on his portable radio.
    He drifts off into a town [in his dream] EXACTLY like the one in the Tex Avery cartoon! A 'modern/stone age city' with everyone busling around riding dino-vehicles & the wacky "goings-on".

    Zagreb didn't turn THEIRS into a series, neither did Tex [although the MGM & HB connection may've influenced the "Flintstones"?] but by 1960 "The Flintstones" happened & have been here ever since...[​IMG]

    That's MY 2 cents worth....[​IMG]
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    Some other early attempts at "prehistoric" humor -- not counting Stone Age episodes involving existing characters, such as Popeye and Mighty Mouse. Are silent cartoons prehistoric themselves?:


    Stone Age Roost Robberand A Stone Age Adventure(Glackens Cartoons; Bray Productions, Inc., 1916)
    Both were humorous cartoons that compared modern man and his customs to those of older times.

    The Dinosaur and the Missing Link, A Prehistoric Tragedy (Thomas A. Edison, Inc., 1917)
    Three suitors, named the Duke, Stonejaw Steve and Theophilus Ivoryhead, compete for the hand of Miss Araminta Rockface. Ivoryhead, an unassuming weakling, wins her hand when the others mistakenly believe that he has killed a large ape which was actually felled by a dinosaur. (Animator Willis O'Brien was also responsible for the dramatic stop-action sequence involving a fight between prehistoric creatures in 1925's The Lost World.)

    A Stone Age Romeo(Aesop's Fables; Fables Studios, 1922)
    No synopsis available.

    The Bonehead Age(Aesop's Fables; Fables Studios, 1925)
    I don't know much about this series entry, but a caveman and cavewoman were characters.

    A Stone Age Romance(Aesop's Fables; Van Beuren Studios, 1929)

    Stone Age Stunts (Aesop's Fables; Van Beuren Studios, 1930)

    Stone Age Error(Aesop's Fables; Van Beuren Studios, 1932)

    Club Life In The Stone Age (TerryToons, 1940)
    Synopsis, anyone?

    Dizzy Dinosaurs(Kartune; Famous Studios, 1952)
    This singalong (to the song "Sweet Adeline"!) with spot gags about caveman days predates The Flintstones. Similar to the Max Fleischer Stone Age series of cartoons.
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