Gumbasia is a 3-minute short film released on September 2, 1953, the first clay animation produced by Art Clokey. He used the same technique to create the classic characters Gumby and Davey and Goliath.[1]
| Gumbasia | |
|---|---|
Gumbasia, the first stop-motion clay animation film by Art Clokey | |
| 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, 1953 |
Running time | 3 minutes |
| Country | United States |
Production edit
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.[2] 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.[3]
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.[4]
References edit
- ^ 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 March 7, 2009. Retrieved October 26, 2008.
External links edit
- Gumbasia at IMDb
- The short film Gumbasia is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive.
- Article at Gumbyworld.com
- Premavision/Clokey Productions
- ArtClokey: the First 50 Years
