![]() ![]() I'll finance a pilot film,'" Clokey says. "He said, 'Art, if you can make little figures out of that clay and animate them. Engel was a Hollywood producer and thought Clokey's clay figures would look great on television. ![]() The dancing clay shapes became the clay boy Gumby once Clokey showed his film to Sam Engel, whose son Clokey was tutoring. Then he'd repeat the process over and over again - about 4,000 times.Ĭlokey added music and called the film Gumbasia - a reference to Disney's Fantasia and to the clay soil in Michigan that Clokey's father called "gumbo" whenever it rained. Clokey shot the film in stop-motion animation: he would barely move a piece of clay, shoot a frame of film, stop the camera, then move the clay a tiny bit more. She reports on Gumby's roots for Morning Edition as part of the Present at the Creation series on American icons.īut with money tight, Clokey decided to make a short film in 1953 starring clay balls, clay cones and other geometric clay shapes that seemed to dance, grow, divide and dart around, Baskas reports. "I was studying to be a producer and director of films with live people in them - not clay," Clokey tells Harriet Baskas. Clokey, who created Gumby 45 years ago, says he can't believe that a clay boy with googly eyes, mitten hands and a lump on his head ended up with his own TV show and top-selling poseable doll. Ma- Art Clokey never had clay actors like Gumby, Pokey, Prickle and Goo in mind when he went to film school. ![]()
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