Gumbasia
Gumbasia | |
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Directed by | Art Clokey |
Written by | Art Clokey |
Produced by | Art Clokey |
Cinematography | Clokey Productions |
Edited by | Art Clokey |
Music by | "Don-Que-Dee" by Mel Powell |
Distributed by | Clokey Inc. |
Release date | September 2, 1955 |
Running time | 3 minutes |
Country | United States |
Gumbasia, a 3-minute, 10-second short film released on September 2, 1955, was the first clay animation produced by Art Clokey, who went on to create the classic series, Gumby and Davey and Goliath, using the same technique.[1]
Production[]
Clokey created Gumbasia while studying at the University of Southern California under the direction of Slavko Vorkapić. He used a ping-pong table in his father's garage as the surface upon which to work the clay.[2] The film was a surreal short of pulsating shapes and lumps of clay set to jazz music in a homage of Walt Disney's Fantasia.[3]
Summary[]
Gumbasia was created in a style Vorkapić taught called Kinesthetic Film Principles. Described as "massaging of the eye cells" this technique, based on camera movements and stop-motion editing, is responsible for much of the look and feel later seen in Gumby films.[4]
When Clokey showed Gumbasia to film producer Sam Engel in 1955, Engel decided to fund a 15-minute short film that became the first Gumby episode—"Gumby Goes to the Moon".
Impact[]
A TV series based on the short, titled Fun in Gumbasia, was scheduled for release in mid-2017.[5]
References[]
- ^ Beck, Jerry (January 8, 2010). "Art Clokey 1921-2010". Cartoon Brew.
- ^ "Gumbasia". KQED.
- ^ "For Art Clokey's birthday, five great stop-motion shorts". October 12, 2011 – via Christian Science Monitor.
- ^ "Art Clokey, article at KQED". Archived from the original on 2009-03-07. Retrieved 2008-10-26.
- ^ "Gumbasia (available in two video formats)". Archived from the original on 2009-12-30. Retrieved 2008-10-26.
External links[]
- Gumbasia at IMDb
- The short film Gumbasia is available for free download at the Internet Archive.
- Article at Gumbyworld.com
- Premavision/Clokey Productions
- ArtClokey: the First 50 Years
- 1955 films
- Clay animation films
- 1955 animated films
- Films without speech
- American animated short films
- American films
- Disney parodies
- 1955 short films
- 1950s stop-motion animated films
- 1950s parody films
- 1955 comedy films
- Animated films without speech