The HOLY GRAIL of Lost Cartoon Media...

Cartoon Network recently found this incredible piece of lost media. Considered as the holy grail of lost media.

[Gambito]

Knowing it was just "shoved in the back of a warehouse in New York" made me so sad

[mechajay]

This is a piece of Lost Media that was so important that even a Network wanted to find it

[JessiDolli]

“Flagstones! Meet The Flagstones! They’re a page right out of lost media history!”

[ericj.]

I remember when Cartoon Network showed this off one evening. It really blew my mind back then to see this early look at the Flintstones. I think this is what got me into stuff like tv pilots and video game prototypes.

[MrBuiznessMan]

I'm gonna ask my Grand Dad if he remembers seeing it when he was 7.

[NormanFoxLee]

I still cannot find cartoons my mother saw in the past. One year search got me only the note that they existed in the past and even names of creators. Sadly they were showed only in the cinema before the movie and nobody saved the films.

[Skelepony]

Anybody notice that in that pic of the pilgrims and native americans.... there's Popeye?

[jazzercise]

Mannnn cartoon network really was probably the most influential TV channel in the 90s/00s not counting network TV. I understand Meet the Flagstones was probably from the late 50s but the fact they found it is amazing. Also loved Boomerang, their vintage cartoon channel they had. My grandma lived on a farm and had to get satellite so I always watched tht at her house.

[Sliver-Animations]

This is a rare moment of a
Company helping the lost medía community find lost media 😊

[Oscar-The-Boxer]

Yabadabdoo I’m so happy they found it because if they didn’t there wouldn’t be any fruity pebbles in existence 😂

[joellerma]

The biggest animated lost media at least for me is gonna always be "15 000 dibujos", a Chile animate movie from 1945 that was a failure and there's not single full copy of the movie. Is a really important part of history of south America animation because it was one of the first animated movies in that part of the world and now there are only a few clips that survive all the years. At least we found the Flintstones pilot but who knows if there's a copy of that movie somewhere but looks like no one cares and that's really sad

[onemercilessming]

Ah, yes. "The Flintstones". The poor man's "The Honeymooners".

[wolfbones]

There was an episode of the Flintstones in which someone didn't hear Fred's name right and called him Mr. Flagstone.

[PaxTheCat]

They lived more primitive, which is interesting

[Ayson-Roberto]

Honestly the first concept idea seemed cool

[narottamcecil]

I remember seeing that pilot on a “Flintstones” DVD.

[reverseshin]

Based on the footage you showed in the short, it looks like that flim reel needs some work to it, like it needs to be given to a restoration team.

[timothypeterson]

But that's not the weirdest story of lost media. Because it's no longer a story of lost media.

[darkcloudsxiaoisbestgirl]

Wait, so Cartoon Network decided on their own to find it?

[TrueHavoc]

I have very personal generation spanning reasons for hating the Flintstones.