This is Gumby.
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Gumby is the coolest piece of clay this side of the universe. He had a TV series that lasted for 35 years with 233 episodes. He also starred in the greatest film known to man and clay alike.
[U][B]Gumby: Origins[/B][/U]
[quote]Gumby was created by Art Clokey while a student of Slavko Vorkapich at the University of Southern California. Clokey and his wife, Ruth (née Ruth Parkander), invented Gumby in the early 1950s at their Covina home shortly after Art finished film school at USC. Clokey's first animated film was a 1953 three-minute short called Gumbasia, a surreal montage of moving and expanding lumps of clay set to music in a parody of Disney's Fantasia.[7] Gumbasia was created in a style Vorkapich taught called Kinesthetic Film Principles. Described as "massaging of the eye cells", this technique of camera movements and editing was responsible for much of the Gumby look and feel. In 1955 Clokey showed Gumbasia to movie producer Sam Engel, who encouraged him to develop his technique by adding figures. Of the three pilot episodes of Gumby, the first was done by Clokey on his own, and the next two were done for NBC and shown on The Howdy Doody Show to test audience reaction. The second 15-minute pilot, "Gumby Goes to the Moon", was initially rejected by NBC executive Thomas Warren Sarnoff. The third Gumby episode, "Robot Rumpus", made a successful debut on the Howdy Doody Show in August 1956. Gumby was an NBC series starting in 1957.
Gumby was inspired by a suggestion from Clokey's wife Ruth that he base his character on the Gingerbread man. Gumby was green simply because that was Clokey's favorite color. Gumby's legs and feet were made wide for pragmatic reasons: they ensured the clay character would stand up during stop-motion filming. The famous slanted shape of Gumby's head was based on the hair style of Clokey's father Charles Farrington in an old photograph.[/quote]
[U][B]Characters:[/B][/U]
[quote]Gumby's principal sidekick is Pokey, a talking red pony voiced by Art Clokey and Dallas McKennon at different times, and his nemeses are the Blockheads, a pair of humanoid, red-colored figures with block-shaped heads, who wreak mischief and havoc at all times. The Blockheads were inspired by the Katzenjammer Kids, who were always getting into scrapes and causing discomfort to others. Other characters are Gumby's dog Nopey (who responds to everything with a gloomy "nope"); and Prickle, a yellow dinosaur who sometimes styles himself as a detective with pipe and deerstalker hat like Sherlock Holmes. Also featured are Goo, a flying blue mermaid who spits blue goo-balls and can change her physical shape at will; Gumby's mother Gumba and father Gumbo. The later series on Nickelodeon added Gumby's sister Minga and mastodon friend Denali.[/quote]
[U][B]The Movie:[/B][/U]
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Gumby 1 (Aka Gumby: The Movie) was released in 1995. Upon being released on VHS, it was purchased by TheBrokenHobo and played in his VCR until it disintegrated.
[U][B]Plot:[/B][/U]
[quote]When the Blockheads' E-Z Loan company threatens to take away the farms belonging to the small farmers, Gumby and his band, the Clayboys, decide to have a benefit concert to save the farms. But when the Blockheads find out that Gumby's dog, Lowbelly, cries pearls when he sees the Clayboys perform, they decide to kidnap Lowbelly and force him to cry pearls. When he doesn't respond, they kidnap Gumby and the Clayboys and create robot clones of them. With the help of Pokey, Prickle, Goo, fans Tara and Ginger, and talent agent Lucky Claybert, Gumby takes on his robot clone and is still in time for his video taping session. At a picnic, Gumby announces that he's opening his own farm loan company. The Blockheads are forced to weed Gumby's garden as punishment, and Gumby and Pokey decide that things are looking up for them and Gumby and Pokey went back to outer space.[/quote]
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Gumby and Pokey being rad as hell.
[U][B]The Man Behind the Legend. Art Clokey (1921-2010)[/B][/U]
The creator of Gumby, Art Clokey, died of natural causes in his sleep at his home in Los Osos, California on the 8th of January 2010.
This man deserves a statue and a medal for creating Gumby and therefore countless childhoods.
RIP.
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[U][B]In Conclusion:[/B][/U]
Gumby was my childhood in clay form, and I'm sure he was part of some of your childhoods as well. Whether it was through the movie, the TV series, or both. Gumby is the definition of cool.
Fuck those Square robot head guys. Those guys were dicks.
I saw Gumby, and I didn't much care for it. Although, I must give the creator credit for being an innovator in stop motion. Without it, we wouldn't have had better shows, like Pee wee's Playhouse.
I used to wish Pokey was real and I still have a doll of him. I really miss that show
Art Clokey is one of the people that inspired me to be a director.
I will sincerely miss him.
Gumby was trippy as fuck.
Holy toledo.
[QUOTE=Mister B;27661728]Holy toledo.[/QUOTE]
Oh god that brought back so many memories.
Never really watched Gumby but I had Gumby and Pokey figures that I used to love as a child.
I never really watched the show, but I loved the movie. It's one of the earliest things I can remember.
Gumby and his band taught me the lyrics to Mary had a little lamb. He is a god.
Gumby Bangin Horses
I have a Pokey figure with bendable legs, but they broke a long time ago. :(
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Oh I could replace it for 10 dollars and get Gumby back. :)
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The entire movie (director's cut) is on YouTube, in eight parts.
Nostalgia away.
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The Original Gumby was the best, I still can't believe he's had 233 adventures.
[QUOTE=Grimezy15;27770308]The Original Gumby was the best, I still can't believe he's had 233 adventures.[/QUOTE]
And counting.
He's just stopped filming them since they've gotten so amazing that the casual viewer might have a Gumby overload and go into cardiac arrest.
never had gumby in england
looks somewhat similar to morph
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