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In 1950, because of the tv, film studios starting to slash their budgets. every major film studio had an animation division. suddenly by the late '50s almost none of them do. >> you've got people like bill hanna and joe barbara winning oscars for tom & jerry cartoons, they're out of work, what are they going to do? they pitched the idea of a primetime adult-oriented sitcom. >> the flintstones, looking for something different on tv? well, here it is. >> the flintstones, that's a kids cartoon, that's not family guy. but it was in 1960. look at the first two seasons of the flintstones, they're al...

Competitor for movies starting in 1950, because of the film tv studios starting to slash their budgets. every major film studio had an animation division. suddenly by the late '50s almost none of them do. >> you've got people like henna and joe barbara winning oscars for tom & jerry cartoons, they're out of work, what are they going to do? they pitched the idea of a primetime adult-oriented sitcom. >> the flintstones, looking for something different on tv? well, here it is. >> the flintstones, that's a kids cartoon, that's not family guy. but it was in 1960. look at the first two seasons of th...

In 1950, because of the film tv studios starting to slash their budgets. every major film studio had an animation division. suddenly by the late '50s almost none of them do. >> you've got people like henna and joe barbara winning oscars for tom & jerry cartoons, they're out of work, what are they going to do? they pitched the idea of a primetime adult-oriented sitcom. >> the flintstones, looking for something different on tv? well, here it is. >> the flintstones, that's a kids cartoon, that's not family guy. but it was in 1960. look at the first two seasons of the flintstones, they're all adul...