tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738012638904762739.post1997790843115196549..comments2024-03-28T11:45:24.378-07:00Comments on Tralfaz: Before the FlintstonesYowphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09264605351878574044noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738012638904762739.post-89651221781376053132012-10-24T21:07:17.936-07:002012-10-24T21:07:17.936-07:00And of course Tex Ritter's the CREDITED narrat...And of course Tex Ritter's the CREDITED narrator!Steve CPokeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15936757752447320636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738012638904762739.post-37458167878049155442012-10-13T23:29:38.014-07:002012-10-13T23:29:38.014-07:00Well, Dan Gordon even wrote one of the Stone Age c...Well, Dan Gordon even wrote one of the Stone Age cartoons at Fleischer's and he gets a fair amount of credit for the early Flintstones development 20 years later, so there's a stronger connection than Paiker.<br />But the idea behind the post was to see how Tex handled the same general concept with the same designer.Yowphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09264605351878574044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738012638904762739.post-34985800616525566102012-10-12T21:26:43.263-07:002012-10-12T21:26:43.263-07:00Frank Paiker would have been with the Fleischers i...Frank Paiker would have been with the Fleischers in Miami at the time the Stone Age cartoons were done, but given the MGM connection and Hanna-Barbera's frequent borrowing from the Avery unit for some of their TV ideas, if anything influenced The Flintstones that wasn't connected to Jackie Gleason, it was probably this (the 'caveman' attitude towards women in Tex's short and elsewhere meshes pretty well with Ralph's normal attitude toward Alice on The Honeymoners, so 'Ralph Kramden as a caveman' no doubt seemed like a natural fit to Bill, Joe and the ABC executives).<br /> J Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15175515543694122729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738012638904762739.post-88413837588715675082012-10-12T16:08:50.651-07:002012-10-12T16:08:50.651-07:00The Fleischers had produced their "Stone Age&...The Fleischers had produced their "Stone Age" series fifteen years before TFBM, so the theme of prehistoric times/modern era juxtaposition was not exactly original in 1955.top_cat_jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06365510398800837335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738012638904762739.post-55897773955128347882012-10-12T08:30:02.945-07:002012-10-12T08:30:02.945-07:00Seeing First Bad Man again not too long ago, I was...Seeing First Bad Man again not too long ago, I was paying attention to how much it looked like the Flintstones (both those outfits and all the "modern stone age" gags), and knowing it came first, figured the Flintstones must have ripped off of this film. <br />Didn't think the same artists would be behind both. It figures, because the pretty redhead who clubs the guy looks so much like Wilma. Another one that sort of prefigured the Flintstones was WB's "Prehysterical Hare", where Elmer's last name becomes "Fuddstone".Eric Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10177883772293704851noreply@blogger.com