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Post by Thetaloops on Feb 18, 2004 1:16:06 GMT -5
The Colonel Bleep cartoon from the 50's is one of my favorite TV memories. Space was being promoted as a positive thing. 'Colonel Bleep, Scratch the Caveman and Squeek',not to mention the Merry Mailman and Kaptain Kangaroo filled many a happy moment as a five year old. ;D Watch out the villian 'Master Cyclinder'. He's out to take over the world. Hey, maybe Dubya watched this and made the bad guy, his mentor.
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Post by Swamp Gas on Feb 21, 2004 2:02:51 GMT -5
Colonel Bleep really hangs in the memory. Wanting to be a spaceman more than anything growing up, had it's influence from Bleep. It was simply the most surreal cartoon of the 50's. We have 4 episodes on tape. www.toontracker.com/bleep/bleep.htm
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Post by boomerchick on Mar 11, 2004 19:42:05 GMT -5
;D OMG! I LOVED Colonel Bleep! I haven't found too many people that could relate to that memory of mine, watching the Bleep Man before school in California! What a trip! One time I did a search on him and found a great website devoted to nostalgic cartoons and found him! It was such a joy! I think Felix the Cat was close by, also, either right after Colonel Bleep or later chronologically! 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grade for me? Maybe 5th for Felix? My husband lived in Ohio and never watched it! I can't remember the storylines, but of course the Colonel always fought the "bad guys" and won! Was this a form of brainwashing us kids to want to participate in the race for space? It's interesting to contemplate the reasons for such a format! Thanks for the memories!
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Post by Swamp Gas on Mar 12, 2004 13:09:52 GMT -5
The "Bad Guys" had already won the race for space, the Nazis. Werner Von Braun had developed the V-2 rocket already, so what you say could be the Russians, the other bad guys.
Some people in Hollywood, like William Cameron Menzies, Robert Wise, and Ivan Tors, thought that the US secretly was the "Bad Guys". Menzies produced, and designed the sets for the original "Invaders From Mars" in 1953. In it, martians were implanting control devices in people's necks. All of them were investigated by the House on UnAmerican Activities in the 50's.
The word was out that the CIA had brought in thousands of Nazis secretly through Operation Paperclip, and many progressive writers and producers knew this, including Grouch Marx.
Colonel Bleep could then be looked at either way.
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Post by boomerchick on Mar 12, 2004 18:08:41 GMT -5
But don't you think, considering we were American children that we were to identify as Americans as the "good guy" and that no-matter-what-the-enemy they would be the "bad guys?" Very interesting about the background of the artists and the Nazis, etc. And the race for space seemed to have been in my childhood -- the Russians -- regarding Sputnik, remember? Interestink!
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