What is Gumbasia?
{{italictitle}} '''''Gumbasia''''' is a very short [[movie]] made in 1953 by [[Art Clokey]].<ref name=Yahoo>{{cite web|url=https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100109/ap_on_en_ot/us_obit_gumby_creator;_ylt=AqAttd6QFylzUyImVUv7OYwEtbAF;_ylu=X3oDMTJzdGFidGo2BGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMTAwMTA5L3VzX29iaXRfZ3VtYnlfY3JlYXRvcgRwb3MDMjQEc2VjA3luX3BhZ2luYXRlX3N1bW1hcnlfbGlzdARzbGsDZ3VtYnlhbmltYXRv|title=Gumby animator Art Clokey dies at 88 in California|accessdate=2010-01-09}}{{Dead link|date=September 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> ''Gumbasia'' was a [[clay animation]] movie.<ref name=Yahoo/> Clokey became famous for his two series ''[[Gumby (TV series)|Gumby]]'' and ''[[Davey and Goliath]]'' which also used clay animation.<ref>[http://www.kqed.org/arts/programs/trulyca/shorts/episode.jsp?essid=14527 Gumbasia (available in 2 video formats)]</ref> Clokey made ''Gumbasia'' while he was studying at the [[University of Southern California]] and being taught by [[Slavko Vorkapich]]. It was Clokey's first clay animation movie and it was only 3 minutes and 45 seconds long. The movie showed moving lumps of clay set to music in a copy of [[Walt Disney]]'s ''[[Fantasia (film)|Fantasia]]''. Gumbasia was made in a style Vorkapich taught called Kinesthetic Film Principles. This style, which uses [[camera]] movements and [[stop-motion]] editing, is used in later Gumby movies.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.kqed.org/arts/profile/index.jsp?essid=14526 |title=Art Clokey, article at KQED |access-date=2009-08-01 |archive-date=2009-03-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090307131243/http://www.kqed.org/arts/profile/index.jsp?essid=14526 |url-status=dead }}</ref> After watching ''Gumbasia'', [[movie producer]] Sam Engel decided to give Clokey money to make a 15 minute movie that became the first Gumby movie -- ''Gumby Goes to the Moon''. ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== *{{imdb title|id=0050022|title=The Gumby Show}} *[http://www.gumbyworld.com/ Gumbyworld.com] *[http://www.premavision.com/ Premavision/Cloke