Art Clokey (born Arthur Farrington, October 12, 1921, Detroit, Michigan) is 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. Events 539 BC - The army of Cyrus the Great of Persia takes Babylon. Year 1921 ( MCMXXI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1921 calendar of the Gregorian calendar Stop motion (or frame-by-frame) animation is an Animation technique to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own Clay animation is one of many forms of Stop motion animation Each animated piece either character or background is "deformable"&mdashmade of a malleable substance Year 1955 ( MCMLV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1955 Gregorian calendar) Slavko Vorkapić (born name Slavoljub Vorkapić) ( English Slavko Vorkapich, originally in Serbian Cyrillic Славко Воркапић The University of Southern California (commonly referred to as USC, SC, Southern California, and incorrectly
When Clokey was 9 years old, his parents divorced and he stayed with his father. After his father died in a car accident, he went to live with his mother in California, but was placed in a half-way house orphanage after one year because his stepfather did not want him around. At age 12, he was adopted by Joseph W. Clokey, a classical music composer and organist who taught music at Pomona College in Claremont, California, and who encouraged young Arthur's artistic inclinations. Joseph Waddell Clokey (b August 28 1890, New Albany Indiana - d Classical music is a broad term that usually refers to mainstream music produced in or rooted in the traditions of Western liturgical and Secular music A composer (literally meaning 'one who puts together' is a person who creates Music, usually in the medium of notation, for Interpretation and Performance An organist is a musician who plays any type of organ. An organist may play solo organ works, play with an ensemble or Orchestra, or accompany Pomona College is a private residential liberal arts college located in Claremont California. Claremont is a College town in eastern Los Angeles County, California, USA, about 30 miles (45 km east of downtown Los Angeles The aesthetic environment later became the home of Art Clokey's most famous character, Gumby, whose name derives from Art Clokey's childhood experiences during summer visits to his grandfather's farm, when he enjoyed playing with the clayey mud called "gumbo. Gumby is a dark green Clay humanoid figure who was the subject of a 233-episode series of American Television which spanned over a 35-year period "
He was adopted by Joseph Clokey who was a dean of fine arts at Miami University. It gave Clokey an idle environment to pursue career in art. While he was living in Detroit, he used to visit his grandparent's farm in Millington, Michigan. From there he played with neighbor's son making toy with clay and it is said that it contributed his career in clay stop motion animation some point.
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. The Webb Schools is the collective name for two Private schools for grades 9-12 founded by Thompson Webb, located in Claremont California. FOSSIL is a standard protocol for allowing serial communication for Telecommunications programs under the DOS Operating system. Clokey later studied geology at Pomona College, where he received his undergraduate degree in 1943. Geology (from Greek γη gê, "earth" and λόγος Logos, "speech" lit
Beginning in 1955, Gumby has been a familiar presence on television, appearing in several series—and even in a 1995 feature film, Gumby: The Movie. Year 1955 ( MCMLV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1955 Gregorian calendar) Year 1995 ( MCMXCV) was a Common year starting on Sunday. Events of 1995 In the Film industry, a feature film is a Film made for initial distribution in theaters and being the "main attraction" of the screening Gumby The Movie is a 1995 Clay animation Feature film featuring the character Gumby. Clokey's second most famous production is the duo of Davey and Goliath, funded by the Lutheran Church. Davey and Goliath was the title of a 1960s Stop-motion animated television series Lutheranism is a major branch of Western Christianity that identifies with the teachings of the sixteenth-century German reformer Martin Luther
Art Clokey also made a few highly experimental and visually inventive short clay animation films for adults, including his first film Gumbasia, the visually rich Mandala—described by Clokey as a metaphor for evolving human consciousness—and the equally bizarre The Clay Peacock, an elaboration on the animated NBC logo of the time. The National Broadcasting Company ( NBC) is an American Television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's These films have only recently become available via the Rhino box-set release of Gumby's television shorts, all appearing on the bonus DVD (disc 7). Rhino Entertainment Company is an American specialty Record label and production company owned by Warner Music Group.
Clokey is also credited with the bizarre clay-animation title sequence for the beach movie Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (1965), starring Vincent Price and Frankie Avalon. Dr Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine is a 1965 American International Pictures film directed by Norman Taurog and starring Vincent Price, Vincent Leonard Price Jr ( May 27 1911 &ndash October 25 1993) was an American Film Actor, remembered Frankie Avalon (born Francis Thomas Avallone September 18 1939 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American Actor
His son, Joe Clokey, continued the Davey and Goliath cartoon in 2004. Joe Clokey is the Animator son of animator Art Clokey and Ruth Clokey
In March 2007, KQED broadcast an hour-long documentary "Gumby Dharma" as part of their Truly CA series.
In 2007, Princeton Architectural Press published an interview between Art Clokey and Dorian Devins (illustrated by Glenn Head) in "The Best of LCD (Lowest Common Denominator): The Art and Writing of WFMU" edited by Dave the Spazz.
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