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Gumbasia
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

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]

Production

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

^ Beck, Jerry (January 8, 2010). "Art Clokey 1921-2010". Cartoon Brew.
^ "Gumbasia". KQED. March 15, 2007.
^ "For Art Clokey's birthday, five great stop-motion shorts". Christian Science Monitor. October 12, 2011 – via Christian Science Monitor.
^ "Art Clokey, article at KQED". Archived from the original on March 7, 2009. Retrieved October 26, 2008.