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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" byMel Powell |
| Distributed by | Clokey Inc. |
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Running time | 3 minutes |
| Country | United States |
Gumbasia is a 3-minute animated short film released on September 2, 1953, the firstclay animation produced byArt Clokey. He used the same technique to create the classic charactersGumby andDavey and Goliath.[1]
Clokey createdGumbasia while a student at theUniversity of Southern California under the direction ofSlavko 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 ofWalt Disney'sFantasia.[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 ofGumby films.[4]
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