A Page Right Out of History

Ever had a good look at the Town of Bedrock? If you’ve seen the opening and closing of the first couple of seasons of ‘The Flintstones,’ then you have. But David Pruiksma snipped together this background from one of the early episodes (Click to enlarge).


David points out it served as a model for a Marx Flintstones playset that came out about that time.



He suspects the layout is by Ed Benedict. As for the background artist, you can find those same sponged clouds-with-a-tail in a bunch of Quick Draw McGraw cartoons. One of them is “Six-Gun Spook,” with backgrounds by Dick Thomas. It also has the same kind of blue rock face you see in the Flintstones background.