{{Short description|American animator}}{{Infobox person | name = Robert D. Buchanan | occupation = animator, producer | known_for = co-creating ''Colonel Bleep'' | notable_works = ''Colonel Bleep'', ''Mighty Mr. Titan'' }} '''Robert D. Buchanan''' is a creator of several animated features in the 1950s and 1960s. He joined Soundac following the departure of Bobby Nicholson, who formed the company in 1951.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Kempner|first1=Marvin|year=1998|title=Can't Wait Till Monday Morning|url=https://archive.org/details/cantwaittillmond00kemp/page/56|publisher=Rivercross Publishing Inc.|page=[https://archive.org/details/cantwaittillmond00kemp/page/56 56-57]|isbn=0944957730}}</ref> Buchanan relocated Soundac from its original location of Buffalo, New York to Miami, Florida in 1955;<ref>{{Citation |last=McMahan |first=Harry |title=Animation from Down South |date=1958 |work=Television Magazine |pages=33 |year= |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Magazines/Archive-Television-Magazine-IDX/IDX/50s/1958/Television-1958-Dec-OCR-Page-0031.pdf |access-date= |publisher= |last2= |first2= |author-link= |author2-link=}}.</ref> he maintained a sales and distribution agent, Richard H. Ullman, in Buffalo through the late 1950s.<ref name=beck_colonelbleepshow>{{cite web|first=Jerry|last=Beck|url=https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/the-colonel-bleep-show/|title=The Colonel Bleep Show|date=September 12, 2018|access-date=January 9, 2020}}</ref>
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.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Erickson |first1=Hal |title=Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 |date=2005 |edition=2nd |publisher=McFarland & Co |isbn=978-1476665993 |page=549}}</ref><ref name="Monday">{{cite book|author=Kempner, Marvin|url=https://archive.org/details/cantwaittillmond00kemp.html|year=1998|title=Can't Wait Till Monday Morning|publisher=Rivercross Publishing Inc.|isbn=0944957730}}</ref> Soundac also produced ''Weather Man'', a series of short animated clips for stations that relied on Weather Bureau forecasts to relay the weather.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cartoonbrew.com/animators/weather-man-3509.html|title = Weather Man|date = 15 June 2007}}</ref>
Buchanan and Soundac ceased operations in the early 1970s.{{citation needed|date=October 2021}} Master tapes of his productions were stolen during the closedown process,{{citation needed|date=October 2021}} 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'' is believed to be mostly intact).
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