The Flintstones Page #13

PILTDOWN:

Okay! Let's start with Slate's

golf trophies and work our way

up to the assembly line!

AD LIB angry cheers, and the mob storms into the plant,

knocking aside equipment and supplies.

134 IN CAR -FRED AND BARNEY -NIGHT 134

Both pedaling like mad.

(CONTINUED)

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134

FRED:

I don't believe this... how did

things ever get this out of

hand --?

BARNEY:

I know. Makes you wish things

were back the way they were...

before we was big executives.

FRED:

Well, I wouldn't go that far...

Suddenly they're interrupted by the sound of a SIREN.

Fred looks back and sees -

135 FELDSPAR AND GRAVEL 135

Coming up from rear. Feldspar grabs his megaphone as he

pulls abreast of Fred.

FELDSPAR:

Flintstone! Pull over!

FRED:

Oh, no, not now...

Feldspar signals Fred onto the shoulder. Fred smiles,

nods...

136 CLOSE ON FRED'S FEET 136

He slams them down through the floorboard -

137 WIDER 137

Fred's CAR SKIDS, spins out, whirling around like a

record on a turntable. It jerks to a halt 180 degrees

later, and then ROARS off in the opposite direction.

138 FELDSPAR 138

So astonished he follows this action with his head... a

bad move because -

GRAVEL:

Sarge! Look out --!

139 NEW ANGLE 139

The patrol CAR runs off the road, CRASHING into a stone

fire hydrant. Water squirts into the air. Feldspar and

Gravel are drenched. They're just coming to their senses

when the ground heaves --the car's front wheels rise -

67.

140 NEW ANGLE 140

As we see that the water spout is actually coming from

the blowhole of a whale which now sticks a bit of its

head up from under the broken curb.

WHALE:

I'm gonna sue you for everything

you got -

CUT TO:

141 SLATE QUARRY -NIGHT 141

Led by Piltdown, the workers have grabbed a big timber

which they're using like a battering ram on the doors of

the assembly line building. Suddenly, with a crash, the

doors go down! Piltdown and Pyrite stand back while the

angry workers rush past them.

PILTDOWN:

(loudly)

Now we'll show 'em who's boss!

PYRITE:

They can't push us around!

Piltdown and Pyrite smash a few items to get everybody

juiced up, and then... when no one is looking...

... they slip out the back!

142 REAR OF QUARRY -NIGHT 142

Fred pulls into the lot, slams his feet down to stop -we

hear SKIDDING --they fishtail all over, slam right

through a storage area for crates and barrels which

collapse all around them.

Finally they slam broadside into the main Quarry building,

knocking a hole in the wall.

143 NEW ANGLE 143

Fred and Barney cough in the rising dust. Neither one of

them sees what we see, which is that visible in the hole

in the wall is the Slate Company's granite-doored safe...

... and right beside it is the Xenosaurus, which now

jumps up, startled, dropping a crowbar and a big hand

drill.

Recovering its composure, the Xenosaurus grabs up the

tools as well as a big canvas bag and tiptoes away,

vanishing just as our heroes stir.

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143

FRED:

(double-taking)

Barn! Did you see that --?

(peering through

the dust)

--Huh, now it's gone... I

coulda sworn...

BARNEY:

Come on Fred. Time to earn those

big bucks.

They rush into the plant.

144 INT. ASSEMBLY LINE -NIGHT 144

As the workers continue their rampage, Piltdown and

Pyrite reappear.

PYRITE:

Darn that Flintstone and Rubble...

they're gonna screw everything

up...

PILTDOWN:

Not if we give 'em a nice long

vacation... in the hospital.

Saying this, he grips tightly on a wrench. Then some

rampaging workers rush by. Piltdown gives them an encouraging

cheer, and then he and Pyrite lead them up some

stairs to the assembly line catwalk. There, Pyrite

begins SMASHING some LIGHT FIXTURES with a club, while

Piltdown uses brute strength to snap big support beams

which he flings below.

145 CLOSE -PYRITE 145

Winds up for another baseball-type swing --but as he

follows through, the ball-shaped light fixture jerks up

on its cable. Unable to stop in time, Pyrite spins

around, falls on his ass.

Barney drops down INTO VIEW, hanging horizontally from

the rafters. He's holding the light fixture with his

free hand.

BARNEY:

Stee-rike one! Heh-hey. Ready

for a curve ball?

Pyrite doesn't have a sense of humor; club in hand,

he jumps up, starts chasing Barney through the rafters.

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146 PILTDOWN 146

Spits on his hand, grabs another big beam. He pulls down

on it... but it doesn't snap, it goes right up again.

Puzzled, he pulls down on it again... there's another

see-saw motion...

... This time Piltdown goes with the flow, pushes up and

peers under the beam...

147 NEW ANGLE 147

Fred is hanging on the other end.

FRED:

Brother Piltdown... can we talk

about this, antler to antler?

Piltdown roars, begins slamming the girder up and down.

FRED:

Guess not...

Fred inches down the shuddering beam, jumps off. Freed

of Fred's weight, the other end "BOINGS" down on

Piltdown's head. He groans, recovers in time to chase

after Fred.

148 BARNEY AND PYRITE 148

Square off in the rafters.

BARNEY:

Give me your best shot.

Pyrite swings. Barney ducks and Pyrite SMASHES a WINDOW

pane. Barney dodges again and the same thing happens.

Getting cocky, Barney does it one more time...

... but this time the window is hinged in the center and

the swivel action after the hit whaps Barney on the back

and knocks him into Pyrite's next blow.

149 FRED 149

Is backpedaling away from Piltdown on the upper superstructure

of the assembly line. Fred scrapes one foot in

an arc in front of him.

FRED:

Dare you to cross that line.

Piltdown crosses it.

FRED:

That line.

(CONTINUED)

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149

Piltdown crosses it. Fred "marks" another one. Piltdown

doesn't even wait for the challenge, takes a giant step.

Oops. Bad idea:
The last "line" was at the edge of a

straight drop! Piltdown yelps, "treads air" in the best

cartoon manner --and then desperately grabs a handful of

Fred's clothing! Both men fall --at the last minute

Piltdown catches a ladder!

150 BELOW -ASSEMBLY LINE 150

Fred lands with a thud right in the clay mold used to

form the Fibre products! Worse, the impact arouses the

goatasauruses out of their sleep. Dutifully, they rise,

and then ram both sides of the mold just as Fred is

struggling to his feet! Fred's yell is muffled by the

clay.

151 OTHER ASSEMBLY LINE ANIMALS 151

Aroused by the "start up" of the assembly line, they do

their job. Fibre foam begins to chug down the trough:

The alligator crane picks up the mold, shakes it.

152 FRED 152

is flung to the conveyor belt, stiffly caked in clay.

153 THE FIBRE MOLD 153

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