Name Robert Buchanan | ||
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Robert D. Buchanan is a creator of several animated TV shows in the 1950s and 1960s.
Most notably, he created the five-minute cartoon Colonel Bleep, the first color cartoon produced for television. Produced at Soundac Studios in Miami, Colonel Bleep was syndicated in 1957.
In 1965, Buchanan co-produced another animated series, Mighty Mr. Titan. Buchanan also produced Weather Man, a series of short animated clips for stations that relied on Weather Bureau forecasts to relay the weather.
Buchanan and Soundac ceased operations in the early 1970s. Master tapes of his productions were stolen during the closedown process, and as a result, only a portion of the company's productions remain: roughly a fourth of Colonel Bleep episodes, and one black-and-white kinescope reel of Weather Man clips (Mighty Mr. Titan is believed to be mostly intact).