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Arthur "Art" Clokey (born October 12, 1921 in Detroit , Michigan , United States , † January 8, 2010 in Los Osos , California ) was an American director and animator . Clokey is considered a pioneer of clay animation technology. He is the creator of the children's programs Gumby and Davey and Goliath .
Life
He was born Arthur Charles Farrington in Detroit in 1921 . After his parents divorced in 1929, he lived with his father, who died in a car accident a year later. His mother and her new husband sent him to a children's home. At the age of 11 he was adopted by the composer Joseph W. Clokey , who introduced him to art by teaching him to draw.
Clokey studied at Miami University in Ohio and then attended Hartford Seminary in Connecticut. He later began studying at the University of Southern California , where he met the Serbian-American filmmaker Slavko Vorkapić , who greatly influenced his later work.
In 1953 he made his first film Gumbasia , in which figures made of plasticine dance to jazz music . Shortly thereafter, he created the character Gumby . The figure received its own series in 1957, which was supplemented by further episodes in 1962 and 1966/67. Another Gumby series was created in 1988, in which, in addition to newly produced films, old material was also reused.
In 1995, the film Gumby and his friends was made .
Clokey was married twice. His first wife Ruth Clokey also supported him in the production of his modeling clay animations. The marriage entered into in 1948, from which a son and daughter (1955–1974) arose, was divorced in 1966. In 1976, Clokey remarried; his second wife Gloria died in 1998.
Filmography
- 1955: Gumbasia
- 1961-1967: Davey and Goliath
- 1966: Gumby (The Gumby Show)
- 1977: Mandala
- 1987: The Puppetoon Movie
- 1988: Gumby Adventures
- 1995: Gumby and Friends (Gumby: The Movie)
literature
- Louis Kaplan: Gumby: The Authorized Biography of the World's Favorite Clayboy . Harmony, New York 1986, ISBN 0-517-56266-9 .
Web links
- Art Clokey in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Art Clokey: Creator Extraordinaire. A True Pioneer (English)
- Art Clokey in nndb (English)
- Gumbasia on the Internet Archive
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f Margalit Fox: Art Clokey, Animator Who Created Gumby, Dies at 88 on nytimes.com from October 12, 2011, accessed October 12, 2011
- ↑ Friederike Lübke: A doodle for the inventor of the funny modeling clay on welt.de from October 12, 2011, accessed on October 12, 2011
- ↑ TV personalities: biographical sketch book: Volume 3 . St. Louis, Mo .: TV Personalities, 1957, OCLC 2470684 (English).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Clokey, Art |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Clokey, Arthur (full name); Farrington, Arthur Charles (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American director and animator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 12, 1921 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Detroit , Michigan, United States |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 8, 2010 |
| Place of death | Los Osos , California |