Art Clokey

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 beginning with the Howdy Doody Show and later The Adventures of Gumby. The characters enjoyed a renewal of interest in the 1980s when American actor and comedian Eddie Murphy parodied Gumby in a skit on Saturday Night Live. In the 1990s Gumby: The Movie was released, sparking even more interest. Clokey's second most famous production is the duo of Davey and Goliath, funded by the Lutheran Church in America. Description above from the Wikipedia article Art Clokey, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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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.

Release Date: 2016-01-01

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Gumby Dharma

Step into the life and work of Art Clokey, creator of Gumby, grandfather of stop-motion animation, and explore why a man would spend his 85 years on earth playing with lumps of colored clay.

Release Date: 2006-10-20

Character: Self

Vote Count: 2

Gumby: The Movie

On the brink of a big deal with mogul Lucky Claybert, Gumby and his band The Clayboys must do battle with the villainous Blockheads, who have kidnapped their loyal canine Lowbelly.

Release Date: 1995-10-04

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Character: Pokey / Prickle / Gumbo (voice)

Vote Count: 17

Gumby Adventures

The continuous adventures of Gumby and his pals. This time, he runs a farm which includes more pals such as a wooly mammoth, Denali, and a bee, Groobee.

Release Date: 1988-01-02

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Character: Pokey (voice)

Episode Count: 36

Vote Count: 3

The Puppetoon Movie

Animated characters introduce a compilation of George Pal replacement animation Puppetoon short films from the 1930s and 1940s.

Release Date: 1987-06-12

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 8

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.

Release Date: 1977-01-01

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 2

The Clay Peacock

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

Release Date: 1975-01-01

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 1

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.

Release Date: 1967-03-26

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Christmas Lost and Found

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

Release Date: 1965-12-25

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine

In this campy spy movie spoof Dr. Goldfoot (Vincent Price) has invented an army of bikini-clad robots who are programmed to seek out wealthy men and charm them into signing over their assets. Secret agent Craig Gamble (Frankie Avalon) and millionaire Todd Armstrong set out to foil his fiendish plot.

Release Date: 1965-11-06

Department: Art

Job: Opening Title Sequence

Vote Count: 54

How to Stuff a Wild Bikini

When he's stationed in Tahiti, a sailor hires a witch doctor to keep an eye on his girlfriend.

Release Date: 1965-07-14

Department: Art

Job: Opening Title Sequence

Vote Count: 20

Davey and Goliath

Davey and Goliath is a 1960s stop-motion animated children's Christian television series. The programs, produced by the Lutheran Church in America, were produced by Art Clokey after the success of his Gumby series. Each 15-minute episode features the adventures of Davey Hansen and his "talking" dog Goliath as they learn the love of God through everyday occurrences.

Release Date: 1961-02-25

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Episode Count: 65

Vote Count: 5

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!

Release Date: 1957-01-01

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Mysterious Fires

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

Release Date: 1956-07-06

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Gumby

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

Release Date: 1956-05-01

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Character: (voice)

Episode Count: 109

Vote Count: 11

Gumbasia

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

Release Date: 1955-02-05

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 2