Were They Making Movies In 75,000,000 BC?

In a burlesque of Dave Garroway's WIDE WIDE WORLD TV show -- which had ceased production two years before this cartoon was released -- we get to see the oldest film in the world, shot 75,000,000 years ago.

It's a pretty good one-shot cartoon by Bob McKimson, even if the contemporary references were already fading from peoples' minds. Did Hanna and Barbera have this cartoon in mind when they pitched THE FLINTSTONES? Or were they hearkening back to similar Stone-Age cartoons done by the Fleischers in the early 1940s?

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