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Gumbasia
Gumbasia, the first stop-motion clay animation film by Art Clokey
Directed byArt Clokey
Written byArt Clokey
Produced byArt Clokey
CinematographyClokey Productions
Edited byArt Clokey
Music by"Don-Que-Dee" by Mel Powell
Distributed byClokey Inc.
Release date
  • September 2, 1953 (1953-09-02)
Running time
3 minutes
CountryUnited States

Gumbasia is a 3-minute animated short film released on September 2, 1953, the first clay animation produced by Art Clokey.[1] He used the same technique to create the classic characters Gumby and Davey and Goliath.[2]

Production

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Clokey created Gumbasia while a student at the University of Southern California under the direction of Slavko Vorkapić. In his father's garage, he worked the clay on a ping-pong table.[3] The film is a surreal short of pulsating shapes and lumps of clay set to jazz music in a homage of Walt Disney's Fantasia.[4]

Gumbasia was created in a style Vorkapić taught, called Kinesthetic Film Principles and described as "massaging of the eye cells". Based on camera movements and stop-motion editing, this provides much of the look and feel of Gumby films.[5]

References

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  1. ↑ Gumbasia (1953), Art Clokey’s first claymation short film · The Kid Should See This
  2. ↑ Beck, Jerry (January 8, 2010). "Art Clokey 1921-2010". Cartoon Brew.
  3. ↑ "Gumbasia". KQED. March 15, 2007.
  4. ↑ "For Art Clokey's birthday, five great stop-motion shorts". Christian Science Monitor. October 12, 2011 – via Christian Science Monitor.
  5. ↑ "Art Clokey, article at KQED". Archived from the original on March 7, 2009. Retrieved October 26, 2008.

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