Colonel Bleep | show | 1956 | Official Featurette - video Dailymotion

Colonel Bleep was the first color cartoon ever made for television. It was created by Robert D. Buchanan, and was filmed | dHNfWXk1aTBwRV84REU

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00:00And now, stand by for adventure.

00:17Three, two, one.

00:21And the exciting story of the Uncharted Island.

00:36Soon after his arrival on Earth, Colonel Bleak discovered that to thoroughly investigate

00:42the places, people, and customs of our planet would require a long time, because it's almost

00:5025,000 miles around this Earth of ours, and it's filled with many interesting and exciting

00:56things to see. So Colonel Bleak decided they must have a place to live. Bleak suggested

01:02a space platform. Scratch, Bleak's prehistoric friend, wanted a cave. And Squeak, the little

01:10silent puppet, hoped for a house and garden, or to use the one word Squeak wrote on his

01:14magic slate, a home. Colonel Bleak remembered that as he was approaching the Earth from

01:20outer space, he had seen a tiny island which might be ideally suited to their needs. This

01:24island was located in the South Atlantic Ocean at the very center of the Earth. In fact,

01:29according to Bleak, it was on the equator at zero degrees latitude and zero degrees

01:36longitude. This was Zero, Zero Island. That tiny uncharted land, which is to be their

01:44home while Colonel Bleak carries out his mission to investigate the places, people, and customs

01:52of our planet Earth. Bleak, Squeak, and Scratch rapidly covered the distance across the Atlantic

01:57Ocean, then turned south to the equator and on to a spot of land in the South Atlantic,

02:03approximately 400 miles south of the African Gold Coast and 600 miles east of French Equatorial

02:09Africa. Here is the beautiful tropical island which Bleak has named Zero, Zero Island because

02:17it's located exactly at zero degrees latitude and zero degrees longitude. Here for the first

02:25time, Bleak, Squeak, and Scratch see the delightful little green land that is to be their home

02:30for many exciting adventures. You know, an island is a mass of land smaller than a continent

02:36that is completely surrounded by water, and Zero, Zero Island is such a land. It is shaped

02:41like a crescent moon around a calm blue lagoon. The trees are filled with brilliantly plumaged

02:46birds, the woods abound with tropical fruit of many kinds, and a sparkling stream flows

02:52across the island from the eastern end to the lagoon at the center. It is here that

02:56Colonel Bleak, Squeak, and Scratch decide to establish headquarters on the planet Earth.

03:02On this pleasant island, they could work and rest, but already forces of evil are at

03:06work and danger, great danger, lies ahead.