Art Clokey

Director

October 12, 1921 (88 years)

† January 8, 2010

Detroit, Michigan, USA

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Arthur "Art" Clokey (October 12, 1921 - January 8, 2010) was a pioneer in the popularization of stop motion clay animation, beginning in 1955 with a film experiment called Gumbasia, influenced by his professor, Slavko Vorkapich, at the University of Southern California. From the Gumbasia project, Art Clokey and his wife Ruth invented Gumby. Since then Gumby and his horse Pokey have been a familiar presence on television, appearing in several series beginn…

Filmography

6.1

The Gumby Show

Innovative "Claymation" adventures of Gumby and his horse Pokey.

5.7

Gumby: The Movie

Amidst putting together a benefit concert for the local farmers and on the brink of a huge deal with mogul Lucky Claybert, Gumby and his band The Clayboys must battle with the villainous Blockheads, who have kidnapped their loyal canine Lowbelly.

6.0

Gumby's Christmas Capers

Join everybody s favorite playmates -- that doughy green guy, Gumby, and his pony pal Pokey -- as they bring a world of Christmas adventure to life in these wonderful, stop-action holiday stories... including seeing the duo visit merry old England to keep Ebenezer Scrooge from putting the humbug on Christmas!

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Christmas Lost and Found

This Davey & Goliath special involves a boy selling Christmas trees and a sacrifice to be made by Davey.

6.5

Mandala

Gumby creator Art Clokey takes viewers on a psychedelic journey through a strange, homemade world. Mandala is an extraordinary film, made in 1974-77, in which transformations of colored abstract shapes in a mystical dreamscape of clay animation transition out to the real world and back, suggesting a revolution in thinking, and an evolution of feeling.

8.0

The Clay Peacock

Abstract clay landscape with occasional peacock, from the creator of Gumby

7.5

Gumbasia

A jazzy riff on 'Fantasia' from the creator of Gumby.

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Happy Easter

As Easter is nearing in the early Spring season, Davey and Sally visit their grandmother Hansen (their dad's mother), that the whole family deeply loved. She had a sweet, caring, loving, soft and honest personality. Davey and Sally called her grandma.

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Adventures of Gumby: A Sample

Art Clokey's first clay animation film was Gumbasia (1953), a short film showcasing a series of clay shapes twisting, turning and contorting in kaleidoscopic patterns. Clokey showed the film to producer Sam Engel, who suggested that Clokey apply the technique to form children's stories. Although the next film Adventures of Gumby: A Sample (1955) was never televised, it is confirmed to be the first pilot episode of what would become The Gumby Show. Soon afterward, Clokey completed the second pilot for the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) through the financial assistance of Engel. Entitled Gumby on the Moon (which Moon Trip Part 1, the actual first episode), this marked the television debut of Gumby. The cartoon was presented on Howdy Doody to much success, and led to the development of the series The Gumby Show.

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Mysterious Fires

A knight mistakes Gumby for a magician and asks for his help in fighting a set of mysterious fires around the kingdom.

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