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	NPR : Gumby, Present at the Creation
		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.
		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.
		Gumby soon began to take shape: Clokey's wife suggested the gingerbread man as inspiration; Clokey's favorite color was green, so Gumby was too; the bell-bottom-shaped legs allowed the character to stay upright; and a lump on one side of Gumby's head was styled like the hairdo of Clokey's dad in an old photo.
	www.npr.org /programs/morning/features/patc/gumby (773 words)

	Art Clokey - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Art Clokey (born 1921) is a pioneer in the popularization of claymation, beginning in 1955 with a film experiment called Gumbasia, influenced by his professor Slakvo Vorkapich at the University of Southern California (known colloquially as USC Film School).
		Clokey's second most famous producion is the duo of Davey and Goliath, funded by the Lutheran Church.
		What is not widely known is that Art Clokey also made a few highly experimental and visually inventive short clay animation films which have nothing to do with a children's demographic.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Art_Clokey (230 words)

	Art Clokey (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Art Clokey (born 1921) is a pioneer in the popularization of clay animation, beginning in the 1950's with a film experiment called "Gumbasia," influenced by his professor Slakvo Vorkapich at the University of Southern California (known colloquially as USC Film School).
		Clokey's second most famous producion is the duo of Davey & Goliath, funded by the Lutheran Church.
		Not only his first film "Gumbasia," but also the visually-rich "Mandala" -- described by Clokey as a metaphor for evolving human consciousness -- and the equally bizarre "The Clay Peacock." 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).
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/a/ar/art_clokey.html (208 words)

	Gumby Dharma
		Art has lead a vital life and influential artistic career, guided in large part by his avid spiritual pursuit.
		Art's journey takes us from the orphanage to inspiring adopted father, from the Seminary to the Hollywood movie business, and from traditional Episcopalian church values to Buddhism and Indian guru Sai Babba.
		Art's animation work and personal brand of love of life has for almost half a century influenced millions of TV and film viewers and filmmakers across the world.
	www.gumbydharma.com /index.php?p=art (147 words)

	History of the Studios - 1950's
		In the early 1950's, Art Clokey produced commercials for Andersen's Pea Soup using elements of stop motion and live action.
		Art Produced a pilot with a green clay character called Gumby, and the rest is history.
		Ruth and Art Clokey collaborated with the Lutheran Church to produce a new children's television series.
	www.premavision.com /studio/1950.htm (439 words)

	Enterzone: Gumby's Eastern Mysticism
		Clokey came up with a simple character that could be cut out of clay with a homemade cookie cutter so that it could be replaced every few hours (in 20 seconds of screen time, which can take a day's work to film, a character usually had to be replaced five or more times).
		Clokey made his clay character with a protrusion on one side of his head, modeled after a photo he had of his father as a teenager with a huge cowlick hair lump.
		Clokey remembered that his father used to call the sticky, muddy clay around their farm in Michigan "gumbo." Latin teacher Clokey knew that the diminutive of "gumbo" would be "gumby," so that's the name he gave his new blue character.
	ezone.org /ez/e3/articles/mingo/gumby.html (1006 words)

	The Art Mine - The Art Mine - The Olympic Peninsula's largest contemporary art gallery, located near Port Townsend
		Art Clokey's claymation character, Gumby, is 50 years old this year.
		It is Art Clokey who led the way in claymation, breaking ground for the classic short film, "Clay" and more recently, Wallace and Gromit.
		Art Clokey and his family will be in attendance.
	www.theartmine.com /events.htm (907 words)

	Posts tagged with ArtClokey \| MetaFilter
		He began to teach at USC where a young student, Art Clokey was starting his film studies.
		Art Clokey also happened to tutor the son of Sam Engel-- famous producer and President of the MPAA.
		Clokey, mentored by the special effects master at USC, made a little art film using stop motion and claymation.
	www.metafilter.com /tags/ArtClokey (141 words)

	USATODAY.com - Green TV hero Gumby stages comeback on 50th anniversary (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Art Clokey, the creator of "Gumby," poses with a stuffed version of his creation at an exhibit of Gumby artwork.
		The Antioch exhibit is the first event planned this year to commemorate the 50 years since Clokey made a short art film called "Gumbasia," featuring clay animation set to jazz music, that inspired the beloved television series that debuted a year later in 1956.
		After Art Clokey's father died when he was 10 years old, he moved from Michigan to California to live with his mother.
	www.usatoday.com /life/2005-05-14-gumby-comeback_x.htm (709 words)

	Clokey, television, known, films, bizarre - Art Clokey
		Art Clokey (born 1921 in Detroit, Michigan, USA) 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 C
		Art Clokey (born 1921 in Detroit, Michigan, USA) 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 (known colloquially as USC Film School).
		What is not widely known is that Art Clokey also made a few highly experimental and visually inventive short clay animation films which have nothing to do with a children's demographic.
	www.alphasearch.org /Art-Clokey.html (333 words)

	The green clayboy makes good: It's the Year of Gumby \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		Art Clokey, still in "pretty good health" at 83, no longer does interviews, his son said, but still comes around the studios sometimes to observe new Gumby shows being made – by manipulating clay figures, much as they were made in the 1950s.
		Art Clokey's parents divorced when he was 8 or 9, according to his son Joe.
		Art was sent to California to live with his mother, who had remarried.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20050828/news_1a28gumby.html (772 words)

	Art:21 . Raymond Pettibon . Interview & Videos \| PBS
		Gumby’s creator, Art Clokey, was a pretty brilliant guy, and it wasn’t like the original Gumby cartoons weren’t worth paying attention to and that I’m rescuing him from Saturday morning children’s cartoons.
		Art Clokey was into Zen Buddhism and into a lot of pretty deep stuff for Saturday morning cartoons.
		Clokey was a pretty hip figure in Los Angeles and in the counter-culture of the ’60s and the ’50s.
	www.pbs.org /art21/artists/pettibon/clip1.html (1413 words)

	All-Reviews.com Movie/Video Review: Gumby: The Movie
		The animation is extremely choppy as if they were on a tight time schedule and a low budget, and they cut corners every where possible by not taking the time to do the proper adjustments between each frame.
		I regret to say that director Art Clokey was bereft of ideas when he decided to take something that works well in small doses on television and make it into a movie, and an overly long one at that.
		This is a shame since the last few minutes show what the movie could have been had the writers (Art and Gloria Clokey) not felt constrained to follow a traditional story line.
	www.all-reviews.com /videos-3/gumby-the-movie.htm (840 words)

	Gumby - Pictures, Sounds, and Videos
		The name was a childhood memory of visiting his grandfather's farm and remembering his father coming into the house and saying he'd ''got stuck in the gumbo,'' local coinage for the region's sticky, clay soil.
		From the beginning, Clokey, who once studied to be an Episcopal minister, had a clear vision of Gumby.
		Still, although they can laugh at the renegade Gumby, the Clokey's took no chances on corrupting influences in ''Gumby 1.'' They used their savings from the new TV episodes to produce the $2.8 million film themselves after studio executives wanted to make changes in the script.
	www.everwonder.com /david/gumby/article1.html (883 words)

	PCM Online > Winter 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		When the Clokeys and Gumby returned to Los Angeles, "things started to happen." Gumby shows at colleges and movie theatres, an explosion of Gumby paraphernalia, and offers from production companies proved that Gumby’s adventures, last filmed in the late 1960s, were as fun as music videos and the made-to-merchandise Care Bears.
		Clokey, who did not become nearly as wealthy as Gumby fans might suspect, hopes to set aside some of the new income for a special tribute to his adoptive father, Joseph Clokey, a Pomona music professor from 1926 to 1939.
		Professor Clokey, a prolific composer of liturgical music, gave Art his first chance to get behind a camera during a trip to Siberia and Alaska in 1934.
	www.pomona.edu /Magazine/PCMWin02/OO1986.shtml (728 words)

	kitsapsun.com: Features (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Art Clokey, center, is joined by his son Joe and his creation, Gumby, at a showing of Gumby memorabilia at The Art Mine at The Inn at Port Hadlock on Friday.
		Gumby creator Art Clokey and much of his family were at the gallery last weekend for a special showing of classic Gumby footage, including a clip from a newly restored copy of "Moon Trip," the character’s debut episode.
		At 84, Clokey is no longer as spry or flexible as his creation, requiring a walker and an assistant to get around.
	www.kitsapsun.com /bsun/features/article/0,2403,BSUN_19080_4859145,00.html (1017 words)

	Amazon.com: Gumby, Vol. 1: DVD: Dick Beals,Art Clokey,Ruth Egelson,Pinky Lee,Norma MacMillan,Dal McKennon,Bobby ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Art Clokey was 33 years old, when he first crudely created the classic clay-mation character that would be embraced and loved by generations of children and then satirized by Eddie Murphy on Saturday Night Live and re-discovered by grown-ups and kids.
		Art Clokey's Gumby was re-born, and millions were made throughout the 1980's and 90's on toys and videos and syndication and there was a new digital Gumby created.
		Clokey had a wild imagination and sometimes the narratives of his little stories would be set aside if he had come up with an interesting visual ideas.
	www.amazon.com /Gumby-Vol-1-Dick-Beals/dp/B0000639HE (1782 words)

	ELCA Agreement May Lead to New 'Davey and Goliath' Episodes
		Clokey and his son, Joe, are beginning work with the Disney Co. on a Gumby special, to be shown on ABC Television, Art Clokey said.
		Art and Joe Clokey, Premavision, have a new studio and are looking forward to the possibility of creating new Davey and Goliath episodes.
		Art and Joe Clokey both said the program's relationship to the Lutheran Church remains important and the popularity of the program remains strong today.
	www.elca.org /Scriptlib/CO/ELCA_News/encArticleList.asp?a=2018&p=4 (713 words)

	Gumby’s 50th celebration coming to Hadlock
		Joe Clokey, son of Gumby originator and claymation Pioneer Art Clokey, says the public has the opportunity to attend a 50th anniversary celebration of Gumby and his sidekick Pokey, July 15 at the Inn at Port Hadlock.
		Now, Clokey looks after Gumby, and he said the general public here will soon have the unique opportunity to get a taste of how Gumby and his sidekick Pokey are transformed from clay puppets into characters known and loved worldwide.
		Clokey said the movie would likely be finished in about two and a half years.
	www.ptleader.com /main.asp?SectionID=36&SubSectionID=55&ArticleID=15223 (976 words)

	Art Clokey's Gumby: The First Fifty Years Exhibition featuring the films of animator Art Clokey opens August 4, ...
		The exhibit will follow Clokey work from his earliest use of stop-motion in the 1950s with commercials animated for Pea Soup Anderson, Coca Cola and Budweiser to his most recent work on a stop-motion animated spot for the Namco video game, Gumby vs. the Astrobots, 2005.
		In addition, the audience will be treated to many of Clokey’s early Gumby episodes, which have been lovingly restored to the original uncut versions; not seen since they were first aired back in 1957.
		Clokey fans will also have the opportunity to view many of Clokey’s non-Gumby films as well; including his work on the Davy and Goliath animated series, The Clay Peacock, complied from the animated opening of The Dinah Shore show.
	www.emediawire.com /releases/2006/7/emw416513.php (653 words)

	Gumby Show, The @ Toonarific Cartoons
		Created by Art Clokey, Gumby was an amiable green putty-like boy-creature who, with his orange pony pal Pokey, went on many strange and wonderful adventures in a bizarre 3-D Claymation world of imagination.
		Clokey first presented a Gumby-like character in his 1953 short film Gumbasia.
		Clokey insists his creation?s green complexion was chosen to match the color of grass, because Gumby is a free spirit like "Leaves of Grass" poet Walt Whitman.
	www.toonarific.com /show.php?show_id=1548 (496 words)

	ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive Biopedia: CLOKEY, Art
		Clokey use to visit his grand father's farm and play with neighbor's son making toy out of clay.
		He was adopted by Joseph Clokey who was a dean of fine arts at Miami University.
		However, his work such as Mandala also shows experimental style and art said the goal of Mandala was to communicate "the idea of evolving our consciousness from primordial forms to human form, and then beyond the human to the spiritual and eternal.
	www.animationarchive.org /bio/2005/12/clokey-art.html (1716 words)

	Still Clay After All These Years - June 17, 2005 - The New York Sun
		It's been 50 years since animator Art Clokey molded a piece of green clay into a boy shaped like a gingerbread man and used rudimentary stop-motion techniques to animate him.
		Clokey's son signed a contract with National Lampoon Networks, a syndicated television network broadcast on about 600 college campuses nationwide, to carry Gumby reruns.
		On opening day, Joe Clokey will introduce a new compilation program of Gumby highlights, including his father's abstract short "Gumbasia," which sparked producer Sam Engel to invite Art to use his claymation techniques to create a television show for children.
	www.nysun.com /article/15609 (510 words)

	As Gumby Nears 50, the Nation Bends Over Backward to Salute Him
		Art Clokey, still in "pretty good health" at 83, no longer does interviews, his son said, but still comes around the studios sometimes to observe new Gumby shows being made - by manipulating clay figures, much as they were made in the 1950s.
		Clokey and his wife conceived Gumby in 1955, Joe Clokey said, and the character first appeared on TV's "Howdy Doody Show" a year later.
		Gumby's "tilted, bumped head" came from an old photo of Art Clokey's late father, taken when he was a teen-ager, showing a "huge cowlick" sprouting from one side of his head.
	www.wtopnews.com /?nid=249&pid=0&sid=550197&page=3 (901 words)

	St. Louis Gateway Arts -- View Event -- arts, entertainment, culture, concerts, film, music, theatre, dance
		Step into the life and work of Art Clokey, creator of Gumby, grandfather of stop-motion animation, and explore why a man would spend his 85 years on earth playing with lumps of colored clay.
		Art has lead a vital life and influential artistic career, guided by his persistent and evolving spiritual pursuits.
		Art's journey takes us from the orphanage to inspiring adopted father, from the Seminary to the Hollywood movie business, and from traditional Episcopalian church values to Buddhism and Indian guru Sai Baba.
	gatewayarts.net /event.asp?id=3486 (359 words)

	Davey and Goliath
		Art and his production team did 65 15-minute shows, with half-hour specials on Christmas and Easter.
		Art wanted to create stories for children that communicated a message of love, and this is very powerfully expressed in the Gumby episodes.
		(There is a lot about Art's love for children in the section on Gumby.) At the same time his background gave him a deep respect for Christian values, and a deep understanding of Christ's love for children.
	www.gumbyworld.com /memorylane/goliath.htm (243 words)

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