Prehistoric Peeps (film)

Prehistoric Peeps is a 1905 British one-reeler film, starring Sebastian Smith, directed by Lewin Fitzhamon and produced by the Hepworth Manufacturing Company.

In 1893, cartoonist Edward Tennyson Reed launched the cartoon series Prehistoric Peeps in the British humor magazine Punch.

[3] One of Reed's best known drawings depicted a caveman tribe playing cricket at Stonehenge, using the monument's stone arches as wickets.

Then the bat was planted at Piltdown, Sussex, alongside a forged fossil skull.

This depiction formed part of an artistic tradition, later represented by the comic strip Alley Oop (1932-) and the television series The Flintstones (1960–1966).

This artistic tradition may have influenced the Creationist fantasies of actual prehistoric people living alongside dinosaurs.