Scott erroneously states that Kennedy's assasination occured in November of 1962, when in reality it occured in 1963. I was aware of this mistake, but unfortunately forgot to add a caption to the video to correct it. Sorry for missing it!
@@okso... I enjoyed this and the Foodfight! videos. Good on you for having Jerry Beck and Michael Barrier cited in any worthwhile history about 1930s-1960s US animated films and early TV.
My dad was in no hurry to part with any money for a color TV. I didn’t realize it then, but we were saving for a new house. So my mom, who didn’t drive, walked to Zody's to her part-time job for many months. At the conclusion of which, she brought home a modest color set on a stand in 1967 and happiness reigned. Thank you, Mom!
"50s catalogs showed color TVs at about half the price of a new car, much like the flat screen prices of a few years ago. We stayed in a Miami Beach hotel in '63, that had a small "home theater" in the lobby with a real color TV.
For the means of production to be so simple and yet achieve the clean and dynamic animation is amazing to me, when you consider it's era in particular.
I'm not so sure of that--Have you ever watched "Powerpuff Girls? I believe that is _exactly_ what they were angling for. And with tremendous success too.
For the longest time "the one about the Martian, the puppet and the cave man" lingered in my mind as a vague memory from early childhood in the late 1950s, and when I described what little I could recall about it none of my contemporaries seemed to know what I meant. All I remembered was they lived on Zero-Zero Island, right where the international dateline.intersected the equator. I began to wonder if I'd imagined this show, until finally found references to it on the internet in the early 2000s, and it was nice to have verification and a name for this show- COLONEL BLEEP. Crusader Rabbit was another one I remembered from my early years, with REALLY limited animation.
While I don’t know that I remember Colonel Bleep…I sure do have fond memories of Crusader Rabbit! Thanks for the memory jog - off to find clips on YT right now!!💕
This is nuts. We watched these Speed Racer compilation tapes when I was young because my dad was a fan as a kid, and they had these interstitials filled with contemporary commercials and animations. And one of them happened to be a Colonel Bleep short. It was the first time I had ever heard of or seen the cartoon, and remained the only place... until now. More than a decade later, Colonel Bleep has been reintroduced to me. Wild.
Remember colonel Bleep, Squeak and Scratch in early 60s. Only saw them in black and white. Extremely limited motion cartoons. Second only to Clutch Cargo
The art is so striking, such beautiful backgrounds. It's really a testament to his skill how he managed to churn these out so quickly while keeping this immaculately beautiful retro-futurism.
We couldn't afford a new color TV in the 1950s, but my dad repaired TVs as a hobby and restored a discarded color set. The only show I remember seeing in color was "The Perry Como Show" which, according to Wikipedia, went color in 1956. I recall watching "Colonel Bleep" on a local TV station around the same time, and "The Ruff and Reddy Show". The only thing I remember from the latter is the planet Muni Mula. That's how I learned to spell "aluminum". 🙂
If there was anything about Bleep lore I know that's hella wild to me it's that he reached Japanese television around the 60s, airing under three different titles for god knows why. So much so that he even made a cameo in an anime (To Love Ru) decades later! also john k jumpscare
@@okso... (comment should be visible to everyone now, yt has a vendetta against links in comments so just apply a period in between the spaces) ameblo jp/ishii141marina/entry-12477124190.html blog.goo.ne jp/banbo1706/e/c2f57b365dc9e25c448326d270fa3b1e These two blogs discuss the show's presence on Japan TV; It also aired in Turkey under "Albay Bleep" but less is known about that besides it being his last-known TV appearance (1994 on Kanal D, to be exact) Good example of how Japan would buy just about any program America had on their TVs at the time (to the point where shows like General Electric Theater, Linus the Lionhearted, The Smokey Bear Show and even Super President all saw broadcasts in there)
I'm guessing a big part of the reason it was shown in Japan is because, with the characters not talking, all they probably had to dub was the narrator.
The segment near the end when you talked about Jerry Beck and John Kricfalusi organizing cartoon parties where they watched Colonel Bleep together, looking at how the space backgrounds look, it got me thinking that this show might of been what inspired John K to make the space episodes of Ren and Stimpy years later.
I was the guy who painted the video boxes for the Streamline Colonel Bleep video releases. I was also a regular at Jerry Beck's Friday cartoon shows at John K's and Lynn Naylor's apartment. Eddie Fitzgerald, Kent Butterworth, Tom Minton and Jim Smith would usually be there, too. Sometimes Ralph Bakshi would show up, as he loved cartoons as much as the rest of us. Fun times. We had been having the Friday cartoon nights for about two years before we started production on the Bakshi "Mighty Mouse" show in 1987. I think those cartoon nights had an influence on our show, and that was only encouraged by Ralph.
It actually was far closer to the inspiration of He-Hog The Atomic Pig which was one of John's failed cartoon pitches in the 80's before Ren and Stimpy was picked by Nickelodeon (incidentally originally just two random pets from another series called Your Gang, a parody of Our Gang (aka the original Little Rascals)
it's really neat to see the sorta "in-between" eras of animation, I had never heard of Colonel Bleep before watching this, but now im happy that i have. great vid
I LOVED Colonel Bleep. But when I grew up and went to video stores, I couldn't find it. I thought I just was remembering something wrong. When I finally found it,, I was elated to watch it again, and elated that I really had remembered it..
You would watch it once then you would never watch it again. If you had a genie and only three wishes I know damn well you wouldn't wish that. Just say you enjoyed the story
Appealing visual design, appealing sound design, great color, simplicity, great energy. Simplicity and making the most of the least is the essence of good design.
Holy crap! I remember watching Colonel Bleep on one of those DVD with a bunch of public domain toons. As a kid, I always thought it was just a one-off episode, I had no idea there were a hundred of these. The episode I watched was called 'The Lunar Lugar', it was about Destructo wanting to use this pill-shaped device, the titular Lunar Lugar. Honestly, if Lunar Lugar is one of those missing episodes, I'd be more than willing to upload it to UA-cam since I still have the DVD. Thanks for unearthing this forgotten memory! :D
I watched Colonel Beep faithfully when I was a kid. I credit the cartoon for teaching me about latitude and longitude. Luckily, I found the DVDs and snatched them up immediately.
Man streamline pictures....thats a name i havent heard in years but remember so fondly. I grew up with a lot of old school anime. Makes since they did oddball animation, i remember back in the day before anime exploded in the late 2000s anime would be put at the special interest category at Hollywood video. Anyway nostalgia aside, i really love the aesthetic of this show its just screams of all things beautiful from the atomic age
REALLY fascinating video there. I'm a sucker for mid century cartoons and it's one of my biggest influences as an artist. I seen a few episodes of this show on YT. Has such a unique vibe. Hell Soundac as a whole has an interesting vibe. I love to see more documentaries about early tv animation. It's so damn unique and experimental. I really would like to see small time indie animators make a show like this. It really is a vibe. Great show to play in the background of something.
Thanks for this. A cool little documentary video essay. Well done. I used to watch COLONEL BLEEP on tv when I was a little kid. I don’t remember when I started. I was born in 1956. But most of my earliest memories of what I watched was when I was four. But I might have been watching it when I was three. In any case, I loved it an it haunted me.
Finding Colonel Bleep was a very cool find when browsing the Cartoon Research website one day. Kind of jealous you made a video about it before I did, but it gives me an excuse to check it out again.
When I was a kid, we used to drive about 30 miles to my mom's cousin's house every Sunday, because he had a color TV, and that was the night when "Wonderful World of Disney" was on. It was a great show, and looked amazing, in color.
It’s weird how I haven’t even known about this cartoon before watching this video (being the type of guy to normally go searching for hidden gems of animation out of sheer motivation; whether it’s old, foreign, obscure or has left a milestone in the landscape), and the overall history behind is fascinating to say the least, especially with the studios' outputs and what the creators were doing during those times. Now, there’s another mid-century cartoon I’ll be checking out, let alone being in a futuristic sci-fi setting. Thanks for being this to my attention!
@@Ola20089 How about I link a few? Of course, some might not be linked and can be done with a simple Google search, so here goes; бременские музыканты (The Bremen Town Musicians) - A 1969 Soviet animated short film based on the German fairy tale. [ua-cam.com/video/d7NpFhucGbg/v-deo.htmlsi=B-3t0hGNJ699HYjQ] Carosello - An Italian television advertising show of sketch comedy films that utilizes various animation styles blended with live action footages. This was also the debut of Italian animation icons such as Calimero and La Linea. [ua-cam.com/video/iVhv7TxUYDQ/v-deo.htmlsi=baJv7-zNQnoTH9qy] Globi - A Swiss comic/animation icon that's apparently been considered the nation's Mickey Mouse. [ua-cam.com/video/bhh-QNjSKfY/v-deo.htmlsi=6oXRK5wb5NafqYxv] The Adventures of Spunky and Tadpole - A syndicated animated series with 150 episodes (apparently, supposedly due to its low budget) that ran from 1958 to 1961, and continued via lesser-known markets to the mid '60s, struggled about throughout its lifespan due to heavy competition, the merge of a major TV distributor at the time (Guild Films), and shady funding practices from the president of the studio (Beverly Hills Productions) producing the series, causing the former vice presidents to exit out the door. Hijitus - The first televised animated series in Latin America, let alone Argentina.
How about I link a few? For a couple examples, however, I think I'll just recommend you to do a simple Google search. So, here goes; The Bremen Town Musicians and On the Trail of the Bremen Town Musicians - Two Soviet animated short films released in 1969 and 1973 respectively based on the German fairy tale, has since gained a cult following in the country for its soundtrack inspired by Western rock & roll music. [ua-cam.com/video/cHeRDRAxowQ/v-deo.htmlsi=C0W-fLHmkk5ngTY0] Carosello - An Italian television adverting show consisting of vignettes that utilizes various animation styles combined with live action footages. This show was also the debut of the country's animation icons, Calimero and La Linea. [ua-cam.com/video/iVhv7TxUYDQ/v-deo.htmlsi=PObqZS6RCilamSqq] Globi - A Swiss comic/animation icon that's apparently considered to the country's Mickey Mouse. [ua-cam.com/video/bhh-QNjSKfY/v-deo.htmlsi=VKhhyXXrbFjOidfW] The Adventures of Spunky and Tadpole - A syndicated animated television series that ran from 1958 to 1961, and continued to air via lesser-known market into the mid-1960's, sputtered about throughout its lifespan due to heavy competition from stronger performing shows at the time, the merge of a major TV distributor of the period (Guild Films), and shady funding practices from the president of the studio (Beverly Hills Productions) that produced it, leading to the former vice presidents to exit out the door. The Adventures of Hijitus - The first televised animated series in Latin America, let alone Argentina.
How about I link a few? For a couple examples, however, I think I'll just recommend you to do a simple Google search. So, here goes; Бременские музыканты (The Bremen Town Musicians) and По следам бременских музыкантов (On the Trail of the Bremen Town Musicians) - Two Russian animated short films released in 1969 and 1973 respectively based on the German fairy tale, has since gained a cult following in the country for its soundtrack inspired by Western rock & roll music. ua-cam.com/video/cHeRDRAxowQ/v-deo.htmlsi=C0W-fLHmkk5ngTY0 Carosello - An Italian television adverting show running from 1957 to 1977, consisted of vignettes that utilized various animation styles combined with live action footages. This show was also the debut of the country's animation icons, Calimero and La Linea. ua-cam.com/video/iVhv7TxUYDQ/v-deo.htmlsi=PObqZS6RCilamSqq Globi - A Swiss comic/animation icon that's apparently considered to the country's Mickey Mouse. ua-cam.com/video/bhh-QNjSKfY/v-deo.htmlsi=VKhhyXXrbFjOidfW The Adventures of Spunky and Tadpole - A syndicated animated television series that ran from 1958 to 1961, and continued to air via lesser-known market into the mid-1960's, sputtered about throughout its lifespan due to competition from stronger performing shows at the time, the merge of a major TV distributor of the period (Guild Films), and shady funding practices from the president of the studio (Beverly Hills Productions) that produced it, leading to the former vice presidents to exit out the door. The Adventures of Hijitus - The first televised animated series in Latin America, let alone Argentina.
How about a few, perhaps? For a couple examples, however, I think I'll just recommend you to do a simple Google search. So, here goes; Бременские музыканты (The Bremen Town Musicians) and По следам бременских музыкантов (On the Trail of the Bremen Town Musicians) - Two Russian animated short films released in 1969 and 1973 respectively based on the German fairy tale, has since gained a cult following in the country for its soundtrack inspired by Western rock & roll music. ua-cam.com/video/cHeRDRAxowQ/v-deo.htmlsi=C0W-fLHmkk5ngTY0 Carosello - An Italian television adverting show running from 1957 to 1977, consisted of vignettes that utilized various animation styles combined with live action footages. This show was also the debut of the country's animation icons, Calimero and La Linea. ua-cam.com/video/iVhv7TxUYDQ/v-deo.htmlsi=PObqZS6RCilamSqq Globi - A Swiss comic/animation icon that's apparently considered to the country's Mickey Mouse. ua-cam.com/video/bhh-QNjSKfY/v-deo.htmlsi=VKhhyXXrbFjOidfW The Adventures of Spunky and Tadpole - A syndicated animated television series that ran from 1958 to 1961, and continued to air via lesser-known market into the mid-1960's, sputtered about throughout its lifespan due to competition from stronger performing shows at the time, the merge of a major TV distributor of the period (Guild Films), and shady funding practices from the president of the studio (Beverly Hills Productions) that produced it, leading to the former vice presidents to exit out the door. The Adventures of Hijitus - The first televised animated series in Latin America, let alone Argentina.
I remember this now! :O When I was younger, my fam would buy bootleg-ish DVDs with random old cartoons on them, and one of them had a few episodes of Colonel Bleep (though I'd forgotten the name since then). It just visually stood out to me so much! So glad I stumbled on this today :D
A friend modeled Squeak for me a while back, been thinking about having him printed. Would love to see a limited release of Colonel Bleep figures some day.
I'd love you to look into animation and colour tv shows outside of America. The history of colour tv varies from country to country along with the first tv shows to use it. In Australia the first show to really REALLY mess with it was the Aunty Jack show, the episode airing on the first of march 1975. You can even find this episode thanks to the fact the Aunty Jack show was recently remastered for dvd few years ago. And if I recall one of the earliest UK tv shows to air in colour was Stingray but I'm not too familiar with UK tv programming as I live in Australia and and all our info in publicly available at ACMI in Melbourne (Though honesty our animation history they have is incomplete unfortunately. )
You made a great analysis video! Plus, I also like how you included other productions by Soundac, not just Colonel Bleep. However, I noticed you didn’t include info of that weird Speed Racer Show that featured one of the show’s episodes for some reason or how Rangoon Rifflets had made a sarcastic commentary series of the show, which both introduced CB to a modern audience. Regardless, here’s hoping more episodes will come into the light till we can all experience the complete adventures of Colonel Bleep! Going to the audience, I know some of y’all had been hoping for a Colonel Bleep remake/reboot, but believe it or not, I’ve actually had been working on one for two years. It was initially created be a book, but I changed it after the uplifting of Indie Animation had kept going since the release of TADC. Since then I made a character test video with a newer design of the titular character and a test pilot titled Colonel Bleep and the Test Theme depicting the modern variant’s twisted origin story. As of now I am currently working on the first official episode which won’t come out until next year, but you can check out its website and blog page for progress updates (no spoilers included).
I've done & studied animation, the limited style on show here is first-rate. Very stylish, surprisingly smooth with bags of energy & characterisation. It's as good as anything UPA were producing at the time. Deserves to be remembered.
I would love to see a video someday that covers the history of Bill Scott’s career, cuz I can’t really find that much info on his later years, such as the behind the scenes stories behind his work on George of The Jungle or Duck Factory.
Hopefully there’s still enough time. (You never know when it’s too late to find somebody with invaluable info like a first hander, relative, friend, or child) Though I also recognize you probably have plenty of commitments already. Whatever the case, I wish you the best of luck in your endeavors. Keep up the great work.
Holy moly! I remember randomly being obsessed with Colonel Bleep when I found a DVD for it on Amazon a while ago (it was an actual hyperfixation of mine lol), sucks that most of the series is lost :/
@theminecraftbro661 There's some on demand DVDs still being sold on Amazon, though the most convenient way to watch the show right now is off UA-cam playlists
I grew up with Col. Bleep. And I revisited it when the VHS tapes came out, and still have them. Also a DVD or two. Still a favorite. Also watched Crusader Rabbit quite a bit.
0:33 I like how he pronounced the k in knob, as a non-native speaker I used to do such things all the time. That's what you get if you learn how to read a language first.
When I first saw Colonel Bleep in black and white, I thought it was composed on scratchpoint. You couldn't garnish anything from the plots, whatsoever. The soundtrack was outstandingly unique and grabbing, and recorded in news audio. No base at all, but the top end was unlimited. I only found out it was color from UA-cam, and boy, was it color. A few of the slogans were memorable like Stand By for Adventure and See Yas in Space , both of which I use to this day .
I've heard about this cartoon for a while. Watched it many times on a Public Domain cartoon DVD I had and this had been locked in my brain for years including other forgotten animations. Very surprised to see Jerry Beck into this.
I'm 71, but I remember vividly watching this Professor von Drake cartoon on Wonderful World of Disney as an adolescent. If I remember correctly, my life quite nearly revolved around Sunday night and Disney episodes. We didn't get color TV until 64.
My family has a BUNCH of DVD compilations of old cartoons. We had Betty Boop, Popeye, and Felix the Cat of course, but Colonel Bleep was there too! It’s how I learned the Morse Code for SOS
I grew up with The Snorks, Top Cat, and Atom Ant. I feel Colonel Bleep is Atom Ant’s father in a way, and i’m absolutely delighted to learn about him. My friend Steve and I have been on a wonderful path of rediscovery with Atom Ant, spurred by him finding an old vinyl of it, and getting to share my love of old Barbera with him is always a delight (we watched Top Cat years ago). In a way, Colonel Bleep makes all of these experiences feel so much more complete. Thanks, excited to watch it
For years I'd heard that Colonel Bleep existed, and knew what he looked like, but basically nothing else, because all I knew was that I'd seen those compilations on video-store shelves. But I never actually watched them until recently on UA-cam. Obviously, they were dealing with tiny budgets and tight schedules in a medium that didn't reward taking great pains. And they didn't have so much as a voice actor, just a narrator. But the cartoons are still really visually striking, and I can see the influence on Spumco.
Colonel Bleep to me personally, is the quintessential 50's cartoon made for television. The sharp and showy art design from Jack Schleh, the radio like story narration from Noah Tyler and the shows' presentation that was heavily inspired by space race americana at the time. A lot of more modern cartoons that later parodied mid-century futurism definitely were inspired by Colonel Bleep in many ways than one! By the way, what's all the music you used in the video?
I used to watch Bleep in the '50s on a Buffalo TV station, either WGR or WBEN. I didn't realize it was created in color, but at the time there were no color TVs around. This brought back some very old memories!!
Colonel Bleep is almost the earliest cartoon I remember. I watched it on a crappy black and white TV (never saw a color set until '69) in a distant suburb of LA in 1961, my kindergarten year. Still have a grudging fondness for the art style, although the fidgety cricket legs kind of weird me out.
proud to have recognized that alien almost as soon as i saw the thumbnail, good to know that 12 disc dvd set i got as a child came in handy in some way
I was born in 1961 and remember faithfully watching Disney's Wonderful World of Color, even though we had a black and white television until the early 1970's. When we could finally watch in color is was like an entire new library of shows. There were some repeats on network TV but syndication was becoming much more prevalent and lots of old cartoons were getting picked up. I was about 12 when we first got a color TV so I still enjoyed watching all the great reruns of shows I had only seen in black and white before.
When the VHS tapes of Colonel Bleep came out, my girlfriend Betsy immediately demanded we rent them, as she recalled watching the show very clearly when she was a kid. I assume it would have been the mid-late '60s syndication run that she saw, at about the time that she and her best friend Donna Butterworth were hanging out with Elvis Presley and Jerry Lewis in Hawaii. Like Beck and John K. I immediately dug the style and colorful flair of the show, though I couldn't say that I recall ever following anything like a plot in any of what I saw -- the look wasn't well-suited to storytelling in the expensive animation field, but I'm surprised Shleh didn't make it big in commercials...
In a way, this show is similar in concept to "The Amazing Three" by Tezuka (early anime). I'm pretty sure that he watched the Japanese dub of "Colonel Bleep" on TV.
I watched those back in the late 1950s when I was a kid… black and white. Actually everything on our TV was sorta yellow and brown. I am surprised by the color, looks really good.
One of my favorite shows as a kid. I used to think Zero Zero Island was a real place and thought what a coincidence that the island just happened to be there. My parents thought color TV was a frivolous luxury and I watched it in black and white.
I remember seeing Colonel Bleep on Channel 4 (NBC in NYC) in the late 60s. They used to run it on Saturday mornings before the network cartoons started at 8 AM. They also shoed Dodo The Kid from Outer Space between 6 and 8 AM. I never realized it was from the 50s.
I well remember watching “Felix the Cat” cartoons in 1959-‘60 and can still sing the theme song. When I found this on UA-cam a few years ago I was very surprised to see it was color. I only ever saw it in black & white because not only did we not have a color TV then, no local stations were yet broadcasting in color either. Like “Colonel Bleep”, Felix was ahead of his time as well.
that was interesting, definitely never heard of it so I'm happy this video popped in my recommended The artstyle of Colonel Bleep's minimalism reminded me of one of those new AI videos that have been starting to exist, I wonder how those will evolve, sort of another "beginning" of sorts there
I remember seeing bits and bobs of Colonel Bleep on an old cartoon tape years ago. I'm guessing maybe it was the videos you mention. And Bud Wilkerson was the head coach of the Oklahoma Sooners from 1947 to 1963.
Very interesting story. I can't say I am familiar with Colonel Bleep but I would love to spend some times watching some episodes. I was honored to be able to provide some information to a book called "Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol: The Making of the First Animated Christmas Special" by Darrell Van Citters, which came out in 2009. Jerry Beck also helped support that book.
I used to watch Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol religiously during the holidays when I was younger! Very cool to hear you helped contribute to the retrospective book.
Hehehex A Geman-English-Quack in it. The great voice actor of the old days, such talented for professor duck. Also 2D animation was not easy, embraced to those old animator with hard work in it with full heart.
My family got a color TV for Xmas 1962 which was still pretty early even though color broadcasts had been around for years by then. I didn’t remember, however, that only one of the three network stations where I lived was showing color in 1962, so there still wasn’t much to watch.
Get tip top, with Titan, Shape up the titan way, Get tip top, with Titan, Grow stronger every day, Your country needs an active crew, Of healthy boys and girls like you, Get tip top, with Titan, Join the Titan team today! I think that's it. It was a long time ago,
I didn't see a color T.V. in my family's apartment until sometime in the '70's. I didn't have my OWN until 1982 - I bought a Sharp brand 13" for $250. I had that for YEARS, until, eventually, the color went to purple. It even came with a remote!!! (which, as I recall, only had a power on\off button. But, MAN, I had a T.V. with a REMOTE!!!!!!
I remember that exact Akira commercial when it was airing on MTV back in the early '90s. I''ve seen Akira many times but I've never seen that exact commercial uploaded anywhere.
Scott erroneously states that Kennedy's assasination occured in November of 1962, when in reality it occured in 1963. I was aware of this mistake, but unfortunately forgot to add a caption to the video to correct it. Sorry for missing it!
The assasination actually occurred Nov. 22 1963
@@oldtimetv65thanks!
@@okso... I enjoyed this and the Foodfight! videos. Good on you for having Jerry Beck and Michael Barrier cited in any worthwhile history about 1930s-1960s US animated films and early TV.
Yes. Nov 22 63
This is the kind of stuff the internet was created for. Saving info on long forgotten pieces of history.
My dad was in no hurry to part with any money for a color TV. I didn’t realize it then, but we were saving for a new house. So my mom, who didn’t drive, walked to Zody's to her part-time job for many months. At the conclusion of which, she brought home a modest color set on a stand in 1967 and happiness reigned. Thank you, Mom!
"50s catalogs showed color TVs at about half the price of a new car, much like the flat screen prices of a few years ago. We stayed in a Miami Beach hotel in '63, that had a small "home theater" in the lobby with a real color TV.
The art is simple and cute. It's a aesthetic that is not used anymore
For the means of production to be so simple and yet achieve the clean and dynamic animation is amazing to me, when you consider it's era in particular.
@@CB-ke7eq yep.
Today's illustrations are covered in a bland sheen, as if stepping out of an oil shower.
@@mc4ndr3 yep.
I'm not so sure of that--Have you ever watched "Powerpuff Girls? I believe that is _exactly_ what they were angling for. And with tremendous success too.
For the longest time "the one about the Martian, the puppet and the cave man" lingered in my mind as a vague memory from early childhood in the late 1950s, and when I described what little I could recall about it none of my contemporaries seemed to know what I meant. All I remembered was they lived on Zero-Zero Island, right where the international dateline.intersected the equator. I began to wonder if I'd imagined this show, until finally found references to it on the internet in the early 2000s, and it was nice to have verification and a name for this show- COLONEL BLEEP. Crusader Rabbit was another one I remembered from my early years, with REALLY limited animation.
I had a similar experience as a vague fond memory and looked for information about the show. Finally found references and videos on line in the 2000s
I remember Colonel Bleep! Until I saw this video just now, I’d been wondering if I’d imagined it.
While I don’t know that I remember Colonel Bleep…I sure do have fond memories of Crusader Rabbit! Thanks for the memory jog - off to find clips on YT right now!!💕
This is nuts. We watched these Speed Racer compilation tapes when I was young because my dad was a fan as a kid, and they had these interstitials filled with contemporary commercials and animations. And one of them happened to be a Colonel Bleep short. It was the first time I had ever heard of or seen the cartoon, and remained the only place... until now. More than a decade later, Colonel Bleep has been reintroduced to me. Wild.
“I must thank you for reviving me through your shade Kurt Yarish.” - Colonel Bleep.
I had that tape too. Good times...
Same. That's the ONLY reason why I even heard of it.
Remember colonel Bleep, Squeak and Scratch in early 60s. Only saw them in black and white.
Extremely limited motion cartoons.
Second only to Clutch Cargo
@@MichaelWysocki-ks5xt i prefered space angel
Love that 1950's scifi retro futurism!
This isn't retro-futurism. This is genuine futurism from the 1950s.
@@TiberianFiend What do you think inspired retro futurism?
@@MacUser2-il2cx Actual period futurism.
@@TiberianFiend What is today but yesterday's tomorrow?
The art is so striking, such beautiful backgrounds. It's really a testament to his skill how he managed to churn these out so quickly while keeping this immaculately beautiful retro-futurism.
We couldn't afford a new color TV in the 1950s, but my dad repaired TVs as a hobby and restored a discarded color set. The only show I remember seeing in color was "The Perry Como Show" which, according to Wikipedia, went color in 1956.
I recall watching "Colonel Bleep" on a local TV station around the same time, and "The Ruff and Reddy Show". The only thing I remember from the latter is the planet Muni Mula. That's how I learned to spell "aluminum". 🙂
If there was anything about Bleep lore I know that's hella wild to me it's that he reached Japanese television around the 60s, airing under three different titles for god knows why. So much so that he even made a cameo in an anime (To Love Ru) decades later!
also john k jumpscare
Do you have any links for that? Would love to read about it!
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ameblo jp/ishii141marina/entry-12477124190.html
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These two blogs discuss the show's presence on Japan TV; It also aired in Turkey under "Albay Bleep" but less is known about that besides it being his last-known TV appearance (1994 on Kanal D, to be exact)
Good example of how Japan would buy just about any program America had on their TVs at the time (to the point where shows like General Electric Theater, Linus the Lionhearted, The Smokey Bear Show and even Super President all saw broadcasts in there)
ditto, and what episode did he appear in?
@@LunaStardust666 episode 3
I'm guessing a big part of the reason it was shown in Japan is because, with the characters not talking, all they probably had to dub was the narrator.
The segment near the end when you talked about Jerry Beck and John Kricfalusi organizing cartoon parties where they watched Colonel Bleep together, looking at how the space backgrounds look, it got me thinking that this show might of been what inspired John K to make the space episodes of Ren and Stimpy years later.
John K definitely watched Colonel bleep and studied the backgrounds for the space episodes of Ren & Stimpy
I was the guy who painted the video boxes for the Streamline Colonel Bleep video releases. I was also a regular at Jerry Beck's Friday cartoon shows at John K's and Lynn Naylor's apartment. Eddie Fitzgerald, Kent Butterworth, Tom Minton and Jim Smith would usually be there, too. Sometimes Ralph Bakshi would show up, as he loved cartoons as much as the rest of us. Fun times. We had been having the Friday cartoon nights for about two years before we started production on the Bakshi "Mighty Mouse" show in 1987. I think those cartoon nights had an influence on our show, and that was only encouraged by Ralph.
It actually was far closer to the inspiration of He-Hog The Atomic Pig which was one of John's failed cartoon pitches in the 80's before Ren and Stimpy was picked by Nickelodeon (incidentally originally just two random pets from another series called Your Gang, a parody of Our Gang (aka the original Little Rascals)
@@EastWillis Who are you? (Joe Suggs from Atlanta here).
@@SurferJoe1 Mike Kazaleh.
it's really neat to see the sorta "in-between" eras of animation, I had never heard of Colonel Bleep before watching this, but now im happy that i have. great vid
Colonel Bleep. The alien whose name is so vulgar, they had to censor it.
"Bidi bidi, I was attempting human comedy."
I LOVED Colonel Bleep. But when I grew up and went to video stores, I couldn't find it. I thought I just was remembering something wrong. When I finally found it,, I was elated to watch it again, and elated that I really had remembered it..
Animation history is always full of interesting stories. Thank you for sharing this one!
This channel needs far more subs. Never heard of the studio but Spumco's work has Bleek all over it
I wish this was restored. This being in the public domain makes me more hope.
You would watch it once then you would never watch it again. If you had a genie and only three wishes I know damn well you wouldn't wish that. Just say you enjoyed the story
I'm telling you now also if you really want to see this you can. The Internet has many layers
"You want this thing? Well you don't want it enough for me to consider it valid."
@@brain_snakes i mean alot of the films from Zagreb films were inspired from this art style alone.
@@AlexGamingConsole Stop being such a bah humbug.
I love the reto futuristic look of the era
Something about the visuals of this cartoon really feels very imaginative!
I really love old-school media!
Appealing visual design, appealing sound design, great color, simplicity, great energy. Simplicity and making the most of the least is the essence of good design.
Holy crap! I remember watching Colonel Bleep on one of those DVD with a bunch of public domain toons. As a kid, I always thought it was just a one-off episode, I had no idea there were a hundred of these. The episode I watched was called 'The Lunar Lugar', it was about Destructo wanting to use this pill-shaped device, the titular Lunar Lugar. Honestly, if Lunar Lugar is one of those missing episodes, I'd be more than willing to upload it to UA-cam since I still have the DVD. Thanks for unearthing this forgotten memory! :D
That episode is alive and well!! 35 episodes ended up being released on DVD, that being one of them. You can find it on UA-cam.
@@okso... Alright, awesome! XD
I watched Colonel Beep faithfully when I was a kid. I credit the cartoon for teaching me about latitude and longitude. Luckily, I found the DVDs and snatched them up immediately.
Man streamline pictures....thats a name i havent heard in years but remember so fondly. I grew up with a lot of old school anime. Makes since they did oddball animation, i remember back in the day before anime exploded in the late 2000s anime would be put at the special interest category at Hollywood video.
Anyway nostalgia aside, i really love the aesthetic of this show its just screams of all things beautiful from the atomic age
In the early 1960’s I remember getting up @5:30AM to see the local TV station sign on and show Colonel Bleep.
REALLY fascinating video there. I'm a sucker for mid century cartoons and it's one of my biggest influences as an artist. I seen a few episodes of this show on YT. Has such a unique vibe. Hell Soundac as a whole has an interesting vibe. I love to see more documentaries about early tv animation. It's so damn unique and experimental. I really would like to see small time indie animators make a show like this. It really is a vibe. Great show to play in the background of something.
I actually remember watching this program. I was probably 5 or so. Wow. I totally forgot about this but this rang bells! Thx!
Thanks for this. A cool little documentary video essay. Well done.
I used to watch COLONEL BLEEP on tv when I was a little kid. I don’t remember when I started. I was born in 1956. But most of my earliest memories of what I watched was when I was four. But I might have been watching it when I was three. In any case, I loved it an it haunted me.
Classic cartoons from the past this is really great Thank You.🇺🇲📺🇺🇲
Finding Colonel Bleep was a very cool find when browsing the Cartoon Research website one day. Kind of jealous you made a video about it before I did, but it gives me an excuse to check it out again.
When I was a kid, we used to drive about 30 miles to my mom's cousin's house every Sunday, because he had a color TV, and that was the night when "Wonderful World of Disney" was on. It was a great show, and looked amazing, in color.
Thank you so much for this. I remember watching Colonel Bleep (on black and white).
That show has a brilliant art style! Thanks for bringing it to attention!
There is only one military man I respect and his name is Colonel Bleep.
He debuted on the same channal as Disney NBC.
So was The Monkees I Dream Of Jeannie and Bewitched.
Living Color inspired by Living Stereo. RCA.
so you don't respect the military? cringe
Cap'n Crunch doesn't rate??!!
You restored my memory of this wonderful character!!!
I only had vague images. I’m 68 now. Loved him as a very young boy. Thanks for the post!!!!
It’s weird how I haven’t even known about this cartoon before watching this video (being the type of guy to normally go searching for hidden gems of animation out of sheer motivation; whether it’s old, foreign, obscure or has left a milestone in the landscape), and the overall history behind is fascinating to say the least, especially with the studios' outputs and what the creators were doing during those times.
Now, there’s another mid-century cartoon I’ll be checking out, let alone being in a futuristic sci-fi setting. Thanks for being this to my attention!
Can you send me a link to one of your discoveries
@@Ola20089 How about I link a few? Of course, some might not be linked and can be done with a simple Google search, so here goes;
бременские музыканты (The Bremen Town Musicians) - A 1969 Soviet animated short film based on the German fairy tale.
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Carosello - An Italian television advertising show of sketch comedy films that utilizes various animation styles blended with live action footages. This was also the debut of Italian animation icons such as Calimero and La Linea.
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Globi - A Swiss comic/animation icon that's apparently been considered the nation's Mickey Mouse.
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The Adventures of Spunky and Tadpole - A syndicated animated series with 150 episodes (apparently, supposedly due to its low budget) that ran from 1958 to 1961, and continued via lesser-known markets to the mid '60s, struggled about throughout its lifespan due to heavy competition, the merge of a major TV distributor at the time (Guild Films), and shady funding practices from the president of the studio (Beverly Hills Productions) producing the series, causing the former vice presidents to exit out the door.
Hijitus - The first televised animated series in Latin America, let alone Argentina.
How about I link a few? For a couple examples, however, I think I'll just recommend you to do a simple Google search. So, here goes;
The Bremen Town Musicians and On the Trail of the Bremen Town Musicians - Two Soviet animated short films released in 1969 and 1973 respectively based on the German fairy tale, has since gained a cult following in the country for its soundtrack inspired by Western rock & roll music.
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Carosello - An Italian television adverting show consisting of vignettes that utilizes various animation styles combined with live action footages. This show was also the debut of the country's animation icons, Calimero and La Linea.
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Globi - A Swiss comic/animation icon that's apparently considered to the country's Mickey Mouse.
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The Adventures of Spunky and Tadpole - A syndicated animated television series that ran from 1958 to 1961, and continued to air via lesser-known market into the mid-1960's, sputtered about throughout its lifespan due to heavy competition from stronger performing shows at the time, the merge of a major TV distributor of the period (Guild Films), and shady funding practices from the president of the studio (Beverly Hills Productions) that produced it, leading to the former vice presidents to exit out the door.
The Adventures of Hijitus - The first televised animated series in Latin America, let alone Argentina.
How about I link a few? For a couple examples, however, I think I'll just recommend you to do a simple Google search. So, here goes;
Бременские музыканты (The Bremen Town Musicians) and По следам бременских музыкантов (On the Trail of the Bremen Town Musicians) - Two Russian animated short films released in 1969 and 1973 respectively based on the German fairy tale, has since gained a cult following in the country for its soundtrack inspired by Western rock & roll music.
ua-cam.com/video/cHeRDRAxowQ/v-deo.htmlsi=C0W-fLHmkk5ngTY0
Carosello - An Italian television adverting show running from 1957 to 1977, consisted of vignettes that utilized various animation styles combined with live action footages. This show was also the debut of the country's animation icons, Calimero and La Linea.
ua-cam.com/video/iVhv7TxUYDQ/v-deo.htmlsi=PObqZS6RCilamSqq
Globi - A Swiss comic/animation icon that's apparently considered to the country's Mickey Mouse.
ua-cam.com/video/bhh-QNjSKfY/v-deo.htmlsi=VKhhyXXrbFjOidfW
The Adventures of Spunky and Tadpole - A syndicated animated television series that ran from 1958 to 1961, and continued to air via lesser-known market into the mid-1960's, sputtered about throughout its lifespan due to competition from stronger performing shows at the time, the merge of a major TV distributor of the period (Guild Films), and shady funding practices from the president of the studio (Beverly Hills Productions) that produced it, leading to the former vice presidents to exit out the door.
The Adventures of Hijitus - The first televised animated series in Latin America, let alone Argentina.
How about a few, perhaps? For a couple examples, however, I think I'll just recommend you to do a simple Google search. So, here goes;
Бременские музыканты (The Bremen Town Musicians) and По следам бременских музыкантов (On the Trail of the Bremen Town Musicians) - Two Russian animated short films released in 1969 and 1973 respectively based on the German fairy tale, has since gained a cult following in the country for its soundtrack inspired by Western rock & roll music.
ua-cam.com/video/cHeRDRAxowQ/v-deo.htmlsi=C0W-fLHmkk5ngTY0
Carosello - An Italian television adverting show running from 1957 to 1977, consisted of vignettes that utilized various animation styles combined with live action footages. This show was also the debut of the country's animation icons, Calimero and La Linea.
ua-cam.com/video/iVhv7TxUYDQ/v-deo.htmlsi=PObqZS6RCilamSqq
Globi - A Swiss comic/animation icon that's apparently considered to the country's Mickey Mouse.
ua-cam.com/video/bhh-QNjSKfY/v-deo.htmlsi=VKhhyXXrbFjOidfW
The Adventures of Spunky and Tadpole - A syndicated animated television series that ran from 1958 to 1961, and continued to air via lesser-known market into the mid-1960's, sputtered about throughout its lifespan due to competition from stronger performing shows at the time, the merge of a major TV distributor of the period (Guild Films), and shady funding practices from the president of the studio (Beverly Hills Productions) that produced it, leading to the former vice presidents to exit out the door.
The Adventures of Hijitus - The first televised animated series in Latin America, let alone Argentina.
I remember this now! :O
When I was younger, my fam would buy bootleg-ish DVDs with random old cartoons on them, and one of them had a few episodes of Colonel Bleep (though I'd forgotten the name since then). It just visually stood out to me so much!
So glad I stumbled on this today :D
Good documentation. Love you interviewing these figures too
I kinda want colonel bleep figures now....
A friend modeled Squeak for me a while back, been thinking about having him printed. Would love to see a limited release of Colonel Bleep figures some day.
Thanks for this video! It's good to know the history of TV milestones...
I'd love you to look into animation and colour tv shows outside of America. The history of colour tv varies from country to country along with the first tv shows to use it. In Australia the first show to really REALLY mess with it was the Aunty Jack show, the episode airing on the first of march 1975. You can even find this episode thanks to the fact the Aunty Jack show was recently remastered for dvd few years ago.
And if I recall one of the earliest UK tv shows to air in colour was Stingray but I'm not too familiar with UK tv programming as I live in Australia and and all our info in publicly available at ACMI in Melbourne (Though honesty our animation history they have is incomplete unfortunately. )
colonel bleep is peak character design
You made a great analysis video! Plus, I also like how you included other productions by Soundac, not just Colonel Bleep.
However, I noticed you didn’t include info of that weird Speed Racer Show that featured one of the show’s episodes for some reason or how Rangoon Rifflets had made a sarcastic commentary series of the show, which both introduced CB to a modern audience.
Regardless, here’s hoping more episodes will come into the light till we can all experience the complete adventures of Colonel Bleep!
Going to the audience, I know some of y’all had been hoping for a Colonel Bleep remake/reboot, but believe it or not, I’ve actually had been working on one for two years.
It was initially created be a book, but I changed it after the uplifting of Indie Animation had kept going since the release of TADC.
Since then I made a character test video with a newer design of the titular character and a test pilot titled Colonel Bleep and the Test Theme depicting the modern variant’s twisted origin story.
As of now I am currently working on the first official episode which won’t come out until next year, but you can check out its website and blog page for progress updates (no spoilers included).
Thanks for exposing me to Colonel Bleep. Great stuff.
YESSS COLONEL BLEEP! BORN IN ‘97 AND I REMEMBER WATCHING THIS SHOW ON DVD!!!
I've done & studied animation, the limited style on show here is first-rate. Very stylish, surprisingly smooth with bags of energy & characterisation. It's as good as anything UPA were producing at the time. Deserves to be remembered.
Great discovery, research and presentation!
I would love to see a video someday that covers the history of Bill Scott’s career, cuz I can’t really find that much info on his later years, such as the behind the scenes stories behind his work on George of The Jungle or Duck Factory.
Maybe some day. I was a big Rocky and Bullwinkle fan as a kid.
Hopefully there’s still enough time. (You never know when it’s too late to find somebody with invaluable info like a first hander, relative, friend, or child) Though I also recognize you probably have plenty of commitments already. Whatever the case, I wish you the best of luck in your endeavors. Keep up the great work.
Holy moly! I remember randomly being obsessed with Colonel Bleep when I found a DVD for it on Amazon a while ago (it was an actual hyperfixation of mine lol), sucks that most of the series is lost :/
where can i find more episodes
@theminecraftbro661 There's some on demand DVDs still being sold on Amazon, though the most convenient way to watch the show right now is off UA-cam playlists
I grew up with Col. Bleep. And I revisited it when the VHS tapes came out, and still have them. Also a DVD or two. Still a favorite. Also watched Crusader Rabbit quite a bit.
Thanks for this. Born in 1953 I remember Colonel Bleep well! This is real 50s era kid's TV. I only saw it in black and white. AHHH... to be 4 again!
This was so interesting and well done! Thank you for the entertaining and informative video! Keep up the good work 🤩
ITS MY FAVOURITE SHOW EVER!
0:33 I like how he pronounced the k in knob, as a non-native speaker I used to do such things all the time. That's what you get if you learn how to read a language first.
When I first saw Colonel Bleep in black and white, I thought it was composed on scratchpoint. You couldn't garnish anything from the plots, whatsoever. The soundtrack was outstandingly unique and grabbing, and recorded in news audio. No base at all, but the top end was unlimited. I only found out it was color from UA-cam, and boy, was it color. A few of the slogans were memorable like Stand By for Adventure and See Yas in Space , both of which I use to this day .
I've heard about this cartoon for a while. Watched it many times on a Public Domain cartoon DVD I had and this had been locked in my brain for years including other forgotten animations. Very surprised to see Jerry Beck into this.
I remember switching to another channel whenever cartoon this came up. Interesting to hear the history.
Genuinely interesting video! I have an interest in animation for this era, but I hadn't even heard of these guys. Thanks!
Colonel Bleep is still on Local Access Channel in Ocean Shores, WA. ...along with Clutch Cargo.
I'm 71, but I remember vividly watching this Professor von Drake cartoon on Wonderful World of Disney as an adolescent. If I remember correctly, my life quite nearly revolved around Sunday night and Disney episodes.
We didn't get color TV until 64.
I remember watching these as a kid a around 6:30 am in the 60’s. ‘Dodo the kid from outer space’ was another one.
My family has a BUNCH of DVD compilations of old cartoons. We had Betty Boop, Popeye, and Felix the Cat of course, but Colonel Bleep was there too! It’s how I learned the Morse Code for SOS
I grew up with The Snorks, Top Cat, and Atom Ant. I feel Colonel Bleep is Atom Ant’s father in a way, and i’m absolutely delighted to learn about him. My friend Steve and I have been on a wonderful path of rediscovery with Atom Ant, spurred by him finding an old vinyl of it, and getting to share my love of old Barbera with him is always a delight (we watched Top Cat years ago). In a way, Colonel Bleep makes all of these experiences feel so much more complete. Thanks, excited to watch it
For years I'd heard that Colonel Bleep existed, and knew what he looked like, but basically nothing else, because all I knew was that I'd seen those compilations on video-store shelves. But I never actually watched them until recently on UA-cam. Obviously, they were dealing with tiny budgets and tight schedules in a medium that didn't reward taking great pains. And they didn't have so much as a voice actor, just a narrator. But the cartoons are still really visually striking, and I can see the influence on Spumco.
I remember watching this as a kid during the sixties. I suspect that I watched most if not all episodes.
Colonel Bleep to me personally, is the quintessential 50's cartoon made for television. The sharp and showy art design from Jack Schleh, the radio like story narration from Noah Tyler and the shows' presentation that was heavily inspired by space race americana at the time. A lot of more modern cartoons that later parodied mid-century futurism definitely were inspired by Colonel Bleep in many ways than one! By the way, what's all the music you used in the video?
Its in the description! Music from the Seeburg 1000 background music library.
@@okso... Much appreciated, I love me some light orchestra music!
I used to watch Bleep in the '50s on a Buffalo TV station, either WGR or WBEN. I didn't realize it was created in color, but at the time there were no color TVs around. This brought back some very old memories!!
Colonel Bleep is almost the earliest cartoon I remember. I watched it on a crappy black and white TV (never saw a color set until '69) in a distant suburb of LA in 1961, my kindergarten year. Still have a grudging fondness for the art style, although the fidgety cricket legs kind of weird me out.
Great story about the history of my favorite cartoon!
proud to have recognized that alien almost as soon as i saw the thumbnail, good to know that 12 disc dvd set i got as a child came in handy in some way
Best episode yet!
Born in 1954 and grew up in NYC area so was prime market for Colonel Bleep, also Crusader Rabbit, Space Angel, Spunky and Tadpole.
I was born in 1961 and remember faithfully watching Disney's Wonderful World of Color, even though we had a black and white television until the early 1970's. When we could finally watch in color is was like an entire new library of shows. There were some repeats on network TV but syndication was becoming much more prevalent and lots of old cartoons were getting picked up. I was about 12 when we first got a color TV so I still enjoyed watching all the great reruns of shows I had only seen in black and white before.
When the VHS tapes of Colonel Bleep came out, my girlfriend Betsy immediately demanded we rent them, as she recalled watching the show very clearly when she was a kid. I assume it would have been the mid-late '60s syndication run that she saw, at about the time that she and her best friend Donna Butterworth were hanging out with Elvis Presley and Jerry Lewis in Hawaii. Like Beck and John K. I immediately dug the style and colorful flair of the show, though I couldn't say that I recall ever following anything like a plot in any of what I saw -- the look wasn't well-suited to storytelling in the expensive animation field, but I'm surprised Shleh didn't make it big in commercials...
In a way, this show is similar in concept to "The Amazing Three" by Tezuka (early anime). I'm pretty sure that he watched the Japanese dub of "Colonel Bleep" on TV.
I remember when got our first color set and watched cartoons. It was in the early 60s on Sat morning. Wow.
I watched those back in the late 1950s when I was a kid… black and white. Actually everything on our TV was sorta yellow and brown. I am surprised by the color, looks really good.
I hope Mister Titan still exists & the footage has been preserved. Now it should be restored & released on DVD.
One of my favorite shows as a kid. I used to think Zero Zero Island was a real place and thought what a coincidence that the island just happened to be there. My parents thought color TV was a frivolous luxury and I watched it in black and white.
I remember seeing Colonel Bleep on Channel 4 (NBC in NYC) in the late 60s. They used to run it on Saturday mornings before the network cartoons started at 8 AM. They also shoed Dodo The Kid from Outer Space between 6 and 8 AM. I never realized it was from the 50s.
I well remember watching “Felix the Cat” cartoons in 1959-‘60 and can still sing the theme song. When I found this on UA-cam a few years ago I was very surprised to see it was color. I only ever saw it in black & white because not only did we not have a color TV then, no local stations were yet broadcasting in color either. Like “Colonel Bleep”, Felix was ahead of his time as well.
that was interesting, definitely never heard of it so I'm happy this video popped in my recommended
The artstyle of Colonel Bleep's minimalism reminded me of one of those new AI videos that have been starting to exist, I wonder how those will evolve, sort of another "beginning" of sorts there
Omg. I loved Colonel Bleep & the Soundec style.
I remember seeing bits and bobs of Colonel Bleep on an old cartoon tape years ago. I'm guessing maybe it was the videos you mention. And Bud Wilkerson was the head coach of the Oklahoma Sooners from 1947 to 1963.
good channel. hope to see more
Very interesting story. I can't say I am familiar with Colonel Bleep but I would love to spend some times watching some episodes. I was honored to be able to provide some information to a book called "Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol: The Making of the First Animated Christmas Special" by Darrell Van Citters, which came out in 2009. Jerry Beck also helped support that book.
I used to watch Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol religiously during the holidays when I was younger! Very cool to hear you helped contribute to the retrospective book.
You just awakened memories I never new I had, or why I had
This looks like a video someone with at least 50000 subscribers would make. Keep up the good work!
5:55 so cute designs 😍
> The intro clocks on all of the Colonel Bleep episodes have stuck in my head for 60 years.
Hehehex
A Geman-English-Quack in it.
The great voice actor of the old days, such talented for professor duck.
Also 2D animation was not easy, embraced to those old animator with hard work in it with full heart.
I only know Colonel Bleep by way of some creatures called Rangoons.
The story about this forgotten cartoon is so fascinating!
i knew jerry beck's part in the story was coming and i *still* got jumpscared by john k
It's weird, I was jumpscared, yet not at all surprised. Guess it just seemed like something he would be enamored with.
@KillThad Indeed. Its even referenced in the Ren and Stimpy episode, Space Madness.
11:19 was a fucking jumpscare and a half holy shit
No, it's not.
It took me a while, but it took me to understand that this was the first *TELEVISION* colored cartoon
Flip the frog was theatrical
My family got a color TV for Xmas 1962 which was still pretty early even though color broadcasts had been around for years by then. I didn’t remember, however, that only one of the three network stations where I lived was showing color in 1962, so there still wasn’t much to watch.
My mom was a television pioneer. My eldest sib went to the Seattle World's Fair in '62. I grew up watching Tip Top with Titan exercise segments.
Get tip top, with Titan,
Shape up the titan way,
Get tip top, with Titan,
Grow stronger every day,
Your country needs an active crew,
Of healthy boys and girls like you,
Get tip top, with Titan,
Join the Titan team today!
I think that's it. It was a long time ago,
The first color TV set we got was a Zenith Space Command 25 inch! in 1973!
I didn't see a color T.V. in my family's apartment until sometime in the '70's. I didn't have my OWN until 1982 - I bought a Sharp brand 13" for $250. I had that for YEARS, until, eventually, the color went to purple. It even came with a remote!!! (which, as I recall, only had a power on\off button. But, MAN, I had a T.V. with a REMOTE!!!!!!
I like whenever Scratch is mentioned he just... Ya know, scratches
I remember that exact Akira commercial when it was airing on MTV back in the early '90s. I''ve seen Akira many times but I've never seen that exact commercial uploaded anywhere.
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Well done 👍