Slate Rock and Gravel Company

Slate Rock and Gravel Company
Slate Rock and Gravel Company (known as Rockhead and Quarry Cave Construction) first shown in "The Swimming Pool".
Statistics
Alias	Rockhead and Quarry Cave Construction Company Bedrock Quarrel and Gravel Company Bedrock Rock Quarry
Type	Gravel Pit
Location	Bedrock
Owned by	Mr. Slate
Other information
First appearance	The Flintstones ("The Swimming Pool")

Slate Rock and Gravel Company, (known in earlier episodes as Rockhead and Quarry Cave Construction Company), Bedrock Quarrel and Gravel Company or Bedrock Rock Quarry) is a gravel pit and one of the main locations of the original series, The Flintstones and the rest of the franchise.

Background

It is a gravel pit where Fred Flintstone works as a "bronto-crane operator" along with his boss, Mr. Slate who owns the company and works at his office and also his employees, including Fred's best friend, Barney Rubble who's also a bronto-crane operator.

Uses

According to the franchise of The Flintstones and the book, The Flintstones' Wacky Inventions, animals were used including a pterodactyl as a steam whistle with its tail being yanked by a foreman, annoucing its' commands and mammoths as rock carriers.

Dinosaurs were also used including the Brontosauruses, as Bronto-Cranes and Bronto-Jackhammers, Triceratopses as excavation drills, Tricera-Trucks and Tricera-Dozers, Tyrannosauruses as Tyrannosaura-Cranes and Stegosauruses as dump trucks, time-punch clocks and Stegosaura-Crushers.

Appearances

Media

Television shows

• The Flintstones
• The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show
• The Flintstone Comedy Hour
• Fred Flintstone and Friends
• The New Fred and Barney Show
• Fred and Barney Meet the Thing
• Fred and Barney Meet the Shmoo
• The Flintstone Comedy Show (known as Flintstone Frolics)
• The Flintstone Funnies
• Yabba-Dabba Dinosaurs

Films and specials

• A Flintstone Christmas
• The Flintstones: Little Big League
• The Flintstone Primetime Specials
  • The Flintstones: Jogging Fever
• The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones
• The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera
• I Yabba-Dabba Do!
• Hollyrock-a-Bye Baby
• A Flintstone Family Christmas (mentioned)
• The Flintstones
• A Flintstones Christmas Carol
• The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas
• The Flintstones: On the Rocks
• The Flintstones & WWE: Stone Age SmackDown!

Video games

• The Flintstones: The Surprise at Dinosaur Peak
• Flintstones/Jetsons Time Warp
• The Flintstones: Bedrock Bowling
• The Flintstones: BurgerTime in Bedrock
• The Flintstones: Bring Back Bedrock

Cancelled series

• The Flintstones (Seth MacFarlane reboot)

Publications

• The Flintstones (comic strips) (1961-1998)
• The Flintstones (Dell Comics)
• The Flintstones (Gold Key Comics)
• The Flintstones (Charlton Comics) and Harvey
  • Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm (Charlton Comics)
  • Barney & Betty Rubble (Charlton Comics)
  • Dino (Charlton Comics)
  • The Great Gazoo (Charlton Comics)
• The Flintstones (Marvel Comics)
• The Flintstones (Archie Comics)
• The Flintstones and the Jetsons
• The Flintstones (DC Comics)

Notes/Trivia

• In 35mm open matte film scan prints of the 1994 live-action film and the 2000 prequel film, the indoor and outdoor scenes of Slate Rock and Gravel Company are zoomed out to a much farther distance.