In 1953 Art Clokey Introduced the Popular Clay Characters

American animator

Art Clokey
Clokey in 1967
Born	Arthur Charles Farrington (1921-x-12)October 12, 1921 Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
Died	Jan viii, 2010(2010-01-08) (aged 88) Los Osos, California, U.South.
Alma mater	Pomona College Miami Academy Academy of Southern California The Webb Schools
Occupation	Animator director producer screenwriter vocalism thespian
Years active	1953–1995
Known for	Creator of Gumby and Davey and Goliath
Spouse(s)	Ruth Clokey ​ ​ (g. 1948; div. 1966)​ Gloria Clokey ​ ​ (m. 1976; died 1998)​
Children	2
Family	Joseph W. Clokey (father)
Awards	Inkpot Award (2006)[1]

Arthur "Art" Clokey (born Arthur Charles Farrington; October 12, 1921 – January eight, 2010) was an American pioneer in the popularization of end-motion clay animation, best known every bit the creator of the grapheme Gumby and the original vocalisation of Gumby's sidekick, Pokey. Clokey'south career began in 1953 with a moving picture experiment called Gumbasia, which was influenced past his professor, Slavko Vorkapich, at the University of Southern California.^{[two] [3] [iv] [5]} Clokey and his wife Ruth subsequently came up with the clay character Gumby and his equus caballus Pokey, who commencement appeared in the Howdy Doody Testify and afterward got their own serial The Adventures of Gumby, from which they became a familiar presence on American television. The characters enjoyed a renewal of interest in the 1980s when American actor and comedian Eddie Murphy parodied Gumby in a skit on Sabbatum Night Alive.

Clokey's 2d-most famous product is the duo of Davey and Goliath, funded past the Lutheran Church in America (now the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America).^[6]

Clokey founded the company Premavision (which has manufacturing subsidiary, Prema Toy Visitor) effectually his Gumby and Pokey franchise.

Early life [edit]

At Webb School in Claremont, young Clokey came under the influence of teacher Ray Alf, who took students on expeditions digging for fossils and learning about the world around them. Clokey later studied geology at Pomona College, where his father Joseph was an organist, before leaving in 1943 to join the military machine during Globe War 2.^{[seven] [8]} He graduated from his father's alma mater, Miami University, in 1948.^[9]

Clay animation [edit]

Fine art Clokey also fabricated a few highly experimental and visually inventive brusque dirt animation films for adults, including his first educatee pic Gumbasia (produced in 1953 and released in 1955), the visually rich Mandala (1977)—described by Clokey as a metaphor for evolving man consciousness—and the every bit bizarre The Clay Peacock (1959), an elaboration on the animated NBC logo of the fourth dimension.^{[ten] [11]} Consisting of animated dirt shapes contorting to a jazz score, Gumbasia and then intrigued Samuel G. Engel, then president of the Move Pictures Producers Association, that he financed the pilot film for what became Clokey's The Gumby Bear witness (1957). The title Gumbasia was in homage to Walt Disney's Fantasia.

In 1987, Clokey provided the vocalisation for the figure Pokey in Arnold Leibovit'south moving picture The Puppetoon Movie, and has been voicing him since.

The Clokeys are credited with the dirt-animation title sequences for the 1965 beach movies Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Automobile and How to Stuff a Wild Bikini. His son, Joe Clokey, continued the Davey and Goliath cartoon in 2004. In March 2007, KQED-Television set broadcast the hour-long documentary Gumby Dharma equally part of their Truly CA series.^[12]

In 1995, Clokey and Dallas McKennon teamed up again for Gumby: The Movie, a feature film. The movie was non a success at the box role and was widely panned by critics, although information technology saw minor success on home media, going on to sell more than a 1000000 copies on home media, cementing itself every bit a cult classic.^[13] It was released in its original 90-minute theatrical version on Blu-ray in 2017.

In the mid-1990s, Nickelodeon, Fox, and Cartoon Network signed a contract with Art Clokey to air every episode of Gumby for its anchor spots at eight a.m. and two p.m. It was on acme of their ratings for over 3 years.

Expiry and legacy [edit]

Clokey died in his sleep on January 8, 2010, at age 88, at his home in Los Osos, California, later suffering recurrent bladder infections.^{[14] [xv] [16]}

On Oct xiii, 2011, a twenty-four hour period later on on what would have been Clokey'south 90th altogether, Google paid homage to his life and works with an interactive logo doodle in the fashion of his clay animations, including Gumby, produced by Premavision Studios.^[17]

Filmography [edit]

• Gumbasia (produced in 1953 and released in 1955) (animator, director, producer and writer)
• The Gumby Show (1957–1968) as Pokey (voice; too animator, managing director, producer and writer)
• Davey and Goliath (1961–1964, 1971–1975) (director, producer and writer)
• The Clay Peacock (1975) (director, producer and photographic camera operator)
• Mandala (1977) (manager, producer and camera operator)
• The Puppetoon Flick (1987) as Pokey (voice)
• Gumby Adventures (1988) every bit Worm and Pokey (voice; as well director, producer and head writer)
• Gumby: The Movie (1995) every bit Pokey, Prickle, and Gumbo (Gumby's Dad) (voice; also manager, producer, script writer and animator)

References [edit]

1. ^ Inkpot Award
2. ^ Tim Lawson; Alisa Persons, eds. (2004). The magic behind the voices. Academy Press of Mississippi. p. 120. ISBN978-1-57806-696-4.
3. ^ TV personalities: biographical sketch volume: Volume 3. St. Louis, Mo. : TV Personalities. 1957. OCLC 2470684.
4. ^ "Hero Complex". Los Angeles Times.
5. ^ "Art Clokey dies at 88; creator of Gumby". Los Angeles Times. January 9, 2010.
6. ^ "Who Are Davey and Goliath?". Daveyandgoliath.org. Archived from the original on 2012-08-31. Retrieved 2011-10-11 .
7. ^ Felch, Jason (ix January 2010). "Art Clokey dies at 88; creator of Gumby". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved 6 Nov 2020.
8. ^ Gilbertsen, Christian (12 Feb 2010). "Arthur Clokey Dies: Pomona alumnus and creator of Gumby dies at 88". The Pupil Life . Retrieved 29 July 2020.
9. ^ Fox, Margalit (2010-01-11). "Art Clokey, Animator Who Created Gumby, Dies at 88". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-xi-29 .
10. ^ These films have recently go available for purchase by the public and are included in the Rhino box-set release of Gumby's television shorts.
11. ^ "Art Clokey'due south Clay Peacock". world wide web.gumbyworld.com.
12. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-03-21. Retrieved 2007-03-26 . {{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy every bit title (link)
13. ^ Clokey, Joe (2017). Gumby Imagined: The Story of Art Clokey and his Creations. Dynamite. p. 228. ISBN9781524104344.
14. ^ Felch, Jason (January 9, 2010). "Art Clokey dies at 88; creator of Gumby". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved May 20, 2012.
15. ^ Fox, Margalit (Jan xi, 2010). "Art Clokey, Animator Who Created Gumby, Dies at 88". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 14 January 2010. Retrieved Jan 11, 2010.
16. ^ Pemberton, Patrick South. "'Gumby' creator and Los Osos resident Art Clokey dies" Archived January x, 2010, at the Wayback Machine, SanLuisObispo.com/The Tribune, January eight, 2010
17. ^ Art Clokey: How Gumby got his name, The Christian Science Monitor, retrieved 2010-ten-12.

External links [edit]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Fine art Clokey.

• Premavision Archived 2011-x-14 at the Wayback Machine
• Fine art Clokey Fine art Clokey's bio on Gumbyworld.com
• Fine art Clokey at Notice a Grave
• Fine art Clokey at IMDb
• KQED Arts and Culture: Art Clokey
• Fine art Clokey: Gumby 50th Anniversary Exhibition
• Fine art Clokey at The Interviews: An Oral History of Television

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