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.
00:00and now stand by for adventure three two one in the exciting story of building an island base
00:30once colonel bleep and his friends were back on zero zero island little squeak could wait no longer to build a home in fact squeak had already drawn a sketch of the kind of house he dreamed of with picket fence and a garden for flowers and vegetables but how can you build a house without the tools of the carpenter's trade you know a carpenter is an expert in the use of hammers and saws and planes and chisels but squeak and scratch had no tools however they did have colonel bleep who brought
00:59with him from outer space
01:01utomic energy the power of the future stronger even than atomic energy and so bleeped through the f energizer switch
01:16and suddenly there was a beautiful little house for squeak
01:21with a huge chain underneath for scratch
01:25and completely covering the entire island was a gigantic plastic-like dome to protect them from bad weather and incense and which would also serve as a giant laboratory for bleep's experiments and research
01:39but squeak
01:40and scratch
01:42could not linger long in their house and cave because colonel bleep
01:46reminded them it was travel time again this time to see
01:50the belgian congo
01:52here we go
01:54looking down on the continent of africa from high in the sky
02:05bleep
02:06squeak
02:08and scratch
02:10see that the belgian congo looks something like an ivy leaf
02:14the stem touches the atlantic ocean on the west
02:16and the central vein of the leaf is formed by the congo river which curves some three thousand miles into the interior and
02:23is the only river in the world that crosses the equator twice
02:27the capital city of leopoldville is a modern busy river fort
02:31but half of the belgian congo is covered by dense equatorial jungle
02:34with a temperature in the 80s almost every day of the year
02:37if bleep and his friends were to crash
02:40in this land they would find jungles that are almost useless to man few tropical fruits grow here and in fact until recently the natives lived almost entirely on game they snared
02:55or shot with bow and arrow today civilization is moving into the congo and the wild animals antelope zebra rhinoceros hippopotamus and gorilla are slowly disappearing except in the game reserves and the natives are being taught modern farming methods
03:15the belgian congo was first opened to europeans by henry morton stanley the american newspaper man
03:21the same mr stanley who said dr livingston i presume
03:25to most people the belgian congo would not be considered a very pleasant place to live
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