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Aug 17, 1931 92 years old
American animator
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About Robert D. Buchanan
- Robert D.
- Buchanan (born August 17, 1931) is a creator of several animated features in the 1950s and 1960s at the Miami area studio Soundac.
- He joined Soundac following the departure of Bobby Nicholson, who formed the company in 1951.He most notably created the animated series Colonel Bleep, the first color cartoon produced for television, which was syndicated in 1957. In 1965, Buchanan co-produced another animated series, Mighty Mr.
- Titan.
- Soundac 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 third of Colonel Bleep episodes, and one black-and-white kinescope reel of Weather Man clips (Mighty Mr.
- Titan is believed to be mostly intact).
