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Dawkins writes:

“today’s biologists are more fortunate than Darwin was in having access to beautiful series of transitional stages: almost cinematic records of evolutionary changes in action.”

That sounds impressive. I would like to confirm this claim. I would like to see "almost cinematic records" going from the first mammal to each of the following mammals as we find them today: bat, whale, elephant, zebra, and cheetah. I did not pick these to be especially hard, or especially easy. This independent selection simply shows some variety among mammals. Please, no artist reconstructions, claymations, cartoon animations, or computer animations should be advanced. Fossils should be ordered for our cinema without benefit of the theory of evolution. Each fossil should be independently dated for sequencing in the cinema. One dating method should be chosen and used throughout to avoid suspicion of cherry-picking of methods. My request should not be especially difficult given the nearly one hundred fifty years of effort attempting to prove (not test) the theory of evolution, and the frequent claims that evolution is so well established that even the term "theory" does an injustice to it's empirical foundation. When the existence of these five cinema's have been confirmed, we can get serious and move on to more challenging assignments. It is sad to say, but some might be tempted to fraud. One should consider the case of the "Piltdown man" that was successfully used for many decades to win converts to evolution, before it was acknowledged to be a fraud. Evolutionists are still trying to live that one down.

...One should consider the case of the "Piltdown man" that was successfully used for many decades to win converts to evolution, before it was acknowledged to be a fraud. Evolutionists are still trying to live that one down...

Could you please provide a source for the bolded claim. I've never heard anything of the sort before.