![]() Soon after Gumby had his own television series on NBC. The little green character was first seen on the very popular show Howdy Doody. Sam asked Art to create a children’s show using the same method. Sam Engel, whom at the time was a Producer at 20 th Century Fox saw the film and told Art that it was the most amazing thing he had ever seen. At the time Art created a short film called “Gumbasia” using Vorkapich’s principles of filmmaking and animating plasticine clay. While attending night school at USC he was under the training of Slavko Vorkapich. He wanted to make religious films and become an expert in religious filmmaking. They both decided to leave college and move to California. He took Art painting in the deserts of Mexico, exploring and filming all over the American West, and even venturing as far as the Arctic Circle.Īfter serving in photo reconnaissance during WWII Art attended the Harford Seminary and was studying to become an Episcopal Priest. His new father was a renaissance man who wrote over 200 pieces of secular and sacred classical music. Arts new stepfather didn’t want Arthur around and so his mother was forced to place him into a home for boys.Īt age 11 Art was adopted by a Dr. ![]() He moved to Southern California to live with his mother who had remarried a policeman. Art’s parents divorced when he was a child and his father died shortly after in a tragic car accident. The adults at the time used to refer to the mud as Gumbo and would often reference it when talking about their trucks being stuck in the mud. When Art was a very young boy he used to play in the mud of his grandfathers farm. The very kind and generous being who started a movement that has influence so many and has kick started the careers of animation legends is none other then the Grand Father of Clay Animation, Art Clokey.Īrt was born Arthur Farrington in Detroit, October 1921. The birth of Gumby and the life of his creator will most likely be one of the most crowning moments in Animation and Film history. The invention of fire, the wheel, the invention of flight, all the revolutionary art movements, and the birth of film, are all such moments in time that will be looked back upon with pride in the eyes of many. In man kinds history there are moments in time that standout far beyond any other time.
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