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34-429: He is most notable for co-creating the animated series Colonel Bleep , the first color cartoon produced for television, with Jack Schleh. Colonel Bleep was syndicated in 1957. In 1965, Buchanan co-produced another animated series, Mighty Mr. Titan , which taught viewers how to exercise. Soundac also produced Weather Man , a series of short animated clips for stations that relied on Weather Bureau forecasts to relay

68-467: A DVD entitled Colonel Bleep Volume 1 . The DVD contains 23 episodes, about 20 of which do not appear on earlier video releases. Among the known episodes are the series premiere ("Col. Bleep's Arrival on Earth") and a clip show believed to be the series finale ("Test of Friendship"). Eight previously lost episodes were uploaded to YouTube on September 12, 2019, procured from sepia-toned black-and-white prints. A ninth lost episode ("Winner Take All")

102-430: A nihilistic or cynic position, "thereby preventing any means of intervening in the field effectively". To be effective, and simply as its mode of practice, deconstruction creates new notions or concepts, not to synthesize the terms in opposition but to mark their difference, undecidability, and eternal interplay. Logocentrism is an idea related to binary opposition that suggests certain audiences will favor one part of

136-531: A binary opposition is seen as a fundamental organizer of human philosophy, culture, and language. Binary opposition originated in Saussurean structuralist theory. According to Ferdinand de Saussure , the binary opposition is the means by which the units of language have value or meaning; each unit is defined in reciprocal determination with another term, as in binary code. For instance, 'hot' gains meaning because of its relation to 'cold,' and vice versa . It

170-500: A binary opposition pair over the other. This favoritism is often most strongly influenced by readers' cultural backgrounds. An example of such logocentrism is the strong patriarchal themes in 'The Women and the Pot', an Amharic folktale that tells the story of two women who are upset at their diminished role in society, and who consequently go to their King for help. He effectively conveys the message that women cannot be relied upon to take on

204-562: A format of binary oppositions in which the savvy learner Scratch would follow Bleep's instructions while the hotshot Squeak blew off his duties and got himself into trouble. Travelogues featured the trio visiting areas such as the Belgian Congo or New Orleans , with no substantial conflict. Most commonly, the trio would be pit against intergalactic villains, some of whom were recurring: the hooded archvillain Dr. Destructo, who escaped from

238-461: A greater role in society, which becomes the moral of the tale. Prasad explains this idea: "The logocentric value is seen through the 'Eternal Knowledge'—the naturalness of male superiority—that is conveyed through the folktale. The hidden a priori binary opposition is 'Man over Woman'." In relation to the cultural heritage of an audience having an influence on their unconscious preference for one part of binary opposition, Prasad says; "By way of studying

272-458: A hosted show illustrated the initial concept of Colonel Bleep : the animated shorts would serve as the framework for a full-service children's variety show , complete with quizzes, riddles and interactive content. It may have had a public airing on Colonel Bleep's Buffalo affiliate, WGR-TV (channel 2). The show was syndicated by Richard H. Ullman in Buffalo, and the wraparound segment reel

306-564: A previous account, but noted in a comment that the lost episode had already been cut from the film by the time he received it. In March 2023, a lost episode "The Malicious Mailman" was discovered by film archivist Sarah Smith. The episode, a sequel to the existing episode "The Lunar Luger," was restored at Multicom Entertainment Group. and released on the streaming service The Archive on August 23, 2023. One episode, "The Treacherous Pirate", can be seen as part of The Speed Racer Show , an anthology film released by Streamline Pictures in 1993; it

340-457: A selection of Ethiopian folktales, the paper uncovers the presence of logocentrism and a priori binary opposition being at work in Ethiopian folktales. These two elements attempt to endorse and validate the 'given' subservient position of women in society". Binary opposition is deeply embedded within literature as language, and paired opposites, rely upon a relation with adjoining words inside

374-420: A series of syndicated physical fitness cartoons for children through Soundac called The Mighty Mister Titan . The series premiered on January 1, 1964, with 100 episodes airing. Unlike contemporary animated television shorts of the era, which were mostly preserved, practically no original material from the production of Colonel Bleep is known to exist today. The show aired as late as 1971. The copyrights of

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408-399: Is "often value-laden and ethnocentric", with an illusory order and superficial meaning. Furthermore, Pieter Fourie discovered that binary oppositions have a deeper or second level of binaries that help to reinforce meaning. As an example, the concepts hero and villain involve secondary binaries: good/bad, handsome/ugly, liked/disliked, and so on. A classic example of binary opposition is

442-480: Is a pair of related terms or concepts that are opposite in meaning. Binary opposition is the system of language and/or thought by which two theoretical opposites are strictly defined and set off against one another. It is the contrast between two mutually exclusive terms, such as on and off, up and down, left and right. Binary opposition is an important concept of structuralism , which sees such distinctions as fundamental to all language and thought. In structuralism ,

476-409: Is an important part of third wave feminism , post-colonialism , post-anarchism , and critical race theory , which argue that the perceived binary dichotomy between man/woman, civilized/uncivilised, and white/black have perpetuated and legitimized societal power structures favoring a specific majority. In the last fifteen years it has become routine for many social and/or historical analyses to address

510-406: Is awakened/transported to the present by the blast; and the denizens of the possible exoplanet Futura become alarmed. The Futurians, an alien race with heads shaped like Reuleaux triangles and small, slender bodies, send one of their own, Colonel Bleep, to investigate. Upon reaching Earth, Bleep commissions Scratch as a deputy, with Bleep representing the future and Scratch the past. Representing

544-434: Is believed to be mostly intact). This article relating to an American animator is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Colonel Bleep Colonel Bleep is a 1957 American animated TV series which was the first color cartoon series made for television . It was created and written by Robert D. Buchanan and Jack Schleh on June 8, 1956, and was animated by Soundac , Inc. of Miami. The show

578-596: Is described as apolitical—that is, not intrinsically favoring one arm of a binary opposition over the other. Deconstruction is the "event" or "moment" at which a binary opposition is thought to contradict itself, and undermine its own authority. Deconstruction assumes that all binary oppositions need to be analyzed and criticized in all their manifestations; the function of both logical and axiological oppositions must be studied in all discourses that provide meaning and values. But deconstruction does not only expose how oppositions work and how meaning and values are produced in

612-427: Is not a contradictory relation but a structural, complementary one. Saussure demonstrated that a sign's meaning is derived from its context (syntagmatic dimension) and the group ( paradigm ) to which it belongs. An example of this is that one cannot conceive of 'good' if we do not understand 'evil'. Typically, one of the two opposites assumes a role of dominance over the other. The categorization of binary oppositions

646-609: Is often defined in terms of binary oppositions, where "one of the two terms governs the other." An example of binary opposition is the male-female dichotomy. A post-structuralist view is that male can be seen, according to traditional thought, as dominant over female because male is the presence of a phallus, while the vagina is an absence or loss. John Searle has suggested that the concept of binary oppositions—as taught and practiced by postmodernists and poststructuralists—is specious and lacking in rigor. The political (rather than analytic or conceptual) critique of binary oppositions

680-577: The Space Age of its time. Occasionally, the planet Futura and its denizens would be seen; most of the series took place within Earth's Solar System, with intelligent life forms existing on most planets. Interplanetary travel was facilitated by robots , and a space station , X-1, served as a transportation hub. The accuracy of the science varied widely from episode to episode. Episodes could follow any number of formats. Training episodes would often follow

714-614: The rings of Saturn early in the series; Bruto the Black Robot, Dr. Destructo's former henchman; Black Patch, a space pirate ; and the Black Knight of Pluto . Colonel Bleep was produced by Soundac, Inc. Soundac was originally formed in 1951 in Buffalo, New York by Bobby Nicholson . After Nicholson left, Robert D. Buchanan took his place. In 1955, Soundac relocated to Miami, Florida . A collection of wraparounds for

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748-470: The characters were mute). Jack Schleh directed all of the episodes. The design of the series was greatly influenced by the futuristic googie designs of the 1950s and early 1960s: space vehicles included angular designs and large tailfins, boomerangs were frequently incorporated into signs, architecture and some vehicles, and stereotypical atomic symbols were used frequently, particularly to represent Bleep's futomic energy. Schleh and Buchanan also produced

782-579: The presence-absence dichotomy. According to structuralism , distinguishing between presence and absence, viewed as polar opposites, is a fundamental element of thought in many cultures. In addition, according to post-structuralist criticisms, presence occupies a position of dominance in human society over absence , because absence is traditionally seen as what you get when you take away presence . (Had absence been dominant, presence might have most naturally been seen as what you get when you take away an absence .) According to Jacques Derrida , meaning

816-538: The present day is Squeak, a cowboy hat-wearing puppet ("a happy-go-lucky boy...very much like you") and former actor that can move on his own volition but cannot speak (as a puppet, he cannot speak on his own; this concept was eventually abandoned, and Squeak occasionally spoke in some of the later episodes). Together, the three establish a base at Zero Zero Island in the Atlantic Ocean to protect Earth's Solar System from extraterrestrial threats. Colonel Bleep

850-473: The show's episodes lapsed, without being renewed, in 1985. Two videocassettes from the series were released by Streamline Pictures in 1991, containing most episodes still known to exist at the time (reportedly discovered in the film storage vault of a southwestern U.S. TV station which had formerly aired the show during a bankruptcy proceeding). Apart from "The Treacherous Pirate", no more episodes were released until August 23, 2005, when Alpha Video released

884-417: The variables of gender, class, sexuality, race and ethnicity. Within each of these categories there is usually an unequal binary opposition: bourgeoisie/working class man; men/women; heterosexual/homosexual. In critical race theory, the paradigm is known as the black–white binary . Post-structural criticism of binary oppositions is not simply the reversal of the opposition, but its deconstruction , which

918-407: 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 (some in their original color and others in sepia tone prints), and one black-and-white kinescope reel of Weather Man clips ( Mighty Mr. Titan

952-582: The wraparounds was uploaded to YouTube on February 18, 2024. In October 2019, YouTube user D Fan (Los Angeles radio personality Jhani Kaye) uploaded a kinescope of an episode of the Local children's show Cartoon Express with Engineer Bill which included a title card for the lost episode Squeak and the Black Knight ; Kaye had previously included the Colonel Bleep snippet in a 2017 video posted on

986-404: Was also discovered and uploaded to YouTube on October 19, 2019; all nine of the rediscovered episodes were in the personal archives of Ron Kurer and his website Toon Tracker. In September 2018, animation historian Jerry Beck located black-and-white wraparounds, including the show's original title sequence, in the archives of Mark Kausler, and posted the film on YouTube . A higher-quality version of

1020-501: Was finite, and in a few episodes he runs out of energy and becomes vulnerable; there were also situations where the heat that the futomic beam generated would pose a hazard and make it an unsuitable choice. His helicopter could also be pressed into service as a drill or auger. Scratch's main weapons were his superhuman strength and a large club . Squeak, other than his unexplained sentience and ability to move on his own, had no identifiable superpowers. The series drew heavy influence from

1054-416: Was originally syndicated on September 21, 1957, as a segment on Uncle Bill's TV Club . One hundred episodes, of varying length of between three and six minutes each, were produced. Of these episodes, 45 episodes are known to exist in some form, eight of which are only available in monochrome. In 1945, the first nuclear explosion on Earth has cosmic effects: Scratch, a hibernating Stone Age caveman ,

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1088-609: Was released on VHS, LaserDisc and DVD by Family Home Entertainment as Speed Racer: the Movie . The episode occurs between Speed Racer episodes ("The Car Hater" and "Race Against the Mammoth Car, Part 1"). Production notes for The Ren & Stimpy Show cite Colonel Bleep as an inspiration to the show's animators, and the episode " Space Madness " includes a recreation of Colonel Bleep's title sequence. Binary opposition A binary opposition (also binary system )

1122-532: Was sponsored by the Canadian grocery store chain Loblaws , which had locations in the Buffalo area at the time. The show's working title was The Adventures of Colonel Bleep . The animation in the show was extraordinarily limited animation , as was typical of TV animation during that era. Local newscaster Noah Tyler was the narrator for the show and provided virtually all of the vocal characterizations (most of

1156-462: Was typically seen with a transparent bubble as a helmet, with a helicopter-like propeller and two antennae. The propeller, used in conjunction with Bleep's ever-present unicycle , helped propel the creature through space. The antennae shot beams of "futomic energy" (a portmanteau of future and atomic), which could manifest itself in any number of ways, most commonly as a raygun . The amount of futomic energy Colonel Bleep could absorb at any given time

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