Art Clokey, the Glossary
Arthur Clokey (born Arthur Charles Farrington; October 12, 1921 – January 8, 2010) was an American animator, director, producer, screenwriter and voice actor, he was pioneer in the popularization of stop-motion clay animation, best known as the creator of the character Gumby and the original voice of Gumby's sidekick, Pokey.[1]
Table of Contents
39 relations: Arnold Leibovit, Claymation, Cult following, Davey and Goliath, Detroit, Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine, Dynamite Entertainment, Eddie Murphy, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Fantasia (1940 film), Film title design, Geology, Google, Gumbasia, Gumby, Gumby: The Movie, How to Stuff a Wild Bikini, Howdy Doody, Inkpot Award, Joseph W. Clokey, KQED (TV), Los Angeles Times, Los Osos, California, Lutheran Church in America, Miami University, NBC, Pomona College, Rhino Entertainment, Saturday Night Live, Slavko Vorkapich, Stop motion, The Christian Science Monitor, The New York Times, The Puppetoon Movie, The Student Life, The Webb Schools, University of Southern California, University Press of Mississippi, World War II.
- Animators from Michigan
- Clay animators
- Deaths from urinary tract infection
- Television producers from Michigan
Arnold Leibovit
Arnold Leibovit (born June 18, 1950) is an American director, producer, and screenwriter of feature films and musical productions. Art Clokey and Arnold Leibovit are American animated film directors.
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Claymation
Claymation, sometimes called clay animation or plasticine animation, is one of many forms of stop-motion animation.
Cult following
A cult following is a group of fans who are highly dedicated to some person, idea, object, movement, or work, often an artist, in particular a performing artist, or an artwork in some medium.
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Davey and Goliath
Davey and Goliath is a Christian clay-animated children's television series, whose central characters were created by Art Clokey, Ruth Clokey, and Dick Sutcliffe, and which was produced first by the United Lutheran Church in America and later by the Lutheran Church in America.
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Detroit
Detroit is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan.
Dr.
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Dynamite Entertainment
Dynamite Entertainment is an American comic book publisher founded in 2004 by Nick Barrucci in Mount Laurel, New Jersey, known for publishing comic book adaptations of licensed feature film properties, such as Army of Darkness, Terminator, and RoboCop; licensed or public domain literary properties such as Zorro, Dracula, Sherlock Holmes, Alice in Wonderland, Red Sonja, Tarzan, and John Carter of Mars; and superhero books including Project Superpowers, which revived classic public domain characters, and original creator-owned comics like The Boys.
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Eddie Murphy
Edward Regan Murphy (born April 3, 1961) is an American comedian, actor, and singer.
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Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) is a mainline Protestant Lutheran church headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
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Fantasia (1940 film)
Fantasia is a 1940 American animated musical anthology film produced by Walt Disney Productions, with story direction by Joe Grant and Dick Huemer and production supervision by Walt Disney and Ben Sharpsteen.
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Film title design
Film title design is a term describing the craft and design of motion picture title sequences.
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Geology
Geology is a branch of natural science concerned with the Earth and other astronomical objects, the rocks of which they are composed, and the processes by which they change over time.
Google LLC is an American multinational corporation and technology company focusing on online advertising, search engine technology, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, consumer electronics, and artificial intelligence (AI).
Gumbasia
Gumbasia is a 3-minute short film released on September 2, 1953, the first clay animation produced by Art Clokey.
Gumby
Gumby and Pokey figures Gumby is a cartoon character and associated media franchise created by Art Clokey.
Gumby: The Movie
Gumby: The Movie (referred to as its on-screen title Gumby 1) is a 1995 American stop-motion surrealist claymation adventure comedy film featuring Gumby.
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How to Stuff a Wild Bikini
How to Stuff a Wild Bikini is a 1965 Pathécolor beach party film from American International Pictures.
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Howdy Doody
Howdy Doody is an American children's television program (with circus and Western frontier themes) that was created and produced by Victor F. Campbell, The New York Times, Dec 1 1973.
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Inkpot Award
The Inkpot Award is an honor bestowed annually since 1974 by Comic-Con International.
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Joseph W. Clokey
Joseph Waddell Clokey (August 28, 1890, New Albany, Indiana – September 14, 1960, Covina, California) was an American educator, organist and composer of sacred and secular music in the first half of the 20th century. Art Clokey and Joseph W. Clokey are Miami University alumni.
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KQED (TV)
KQED (channel 9) is a PBS member television station licensed to San Francisco, California, United States, serving the San Francisco Bay Area.
Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.
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Los Osos, California
Los Osos (Spanish for "the bears") is an unincorporated town in San Luis Obispo County, California, United States.
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Lutheran Church in America
The Lutheran Church in America (LCA) was an American and Canadian Lutheran church body that existed from 1962 to 1987.
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Miami University
Miami University (informally Miami of Ohio or simply Miami) is a public research university in Oxford, Ohio, United States.
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NBC
The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the NBC Entertainment division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.
Pomona College
Pomona College is a private liberal arts college in Claremont, California.
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Rhino Entertainment
Rhino Entertainment Company (formerly Rhino Records Inc.) is an American specialty record label and production company founded in 1978.
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Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live (SNL) is an American late-night live sketch comedy variety show created by Lorne Michaels and developed by Michaels and Dick Ebersol that airs on NBC and streams on Peacock.
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Slavko Vorkapich
Slavoljub "Slavko" Vorkapić (Славољуб "Славко" Воркапић; March 17, 1894 – October 20, 1976), known in English as Slavko Vorkapich, was a Serbian-born Hollywood montagist, an independent cinematic artist, chair of USC School of Cinematic Arts, chair of the Belgrade Film and Theatre Academy, painter, and illustrator.
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Stop motion
Stop motion (also known as stop frame animation) is an animated filmmaking technique in which objects are physically manipulated in small increments between individually photographed frames so that they will appear to exhibit independent motion or change when the series of frames is played back.
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The Christian Science Monitor
The Christian Science Monitor (CSM), commonly known as The Monitor, is a nonprofit news organization that publishes daily articles both in electronic format and a weekly print edition.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The Puppetoon Movie
The Puppetoon Movie is a 1987 animated film written, produced, and directed by Arnold Leibovit.
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The Student Life
The Student Life (abbreviated TSL) is a student newspaper covering the Claremont Colleges (7Cs, or 5Cs when referring only to the undergraduate colleges), a consortium of liberal arts colleges in Claremont, California.
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The Webb Schools
The Webb Schools is the collective name for two private schools for grades 9–12, founded by Thompson Webb, located in Claremont, California.
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University of Southern California
The University of Southern California (USC, SC, Southern Cal) is a private research university in Los Angeles, California, United States.
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University Press of Mississippi
The University Press of Mississippi (UPM), founded in 1970, is a university press that is sponsored by the eight state universities in Mississippi (i.e., Alcorn State University, Delta State University, Jackson State University, Mississippi State University, Mississippi University for Women, Mississippi Valley State University, University of Mississippi, and the University of Southern Mississippi), making it one of the few university presses in the United States to have more than one affiliate university.
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
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See also
Animators from Michigan
- Art Clokey
- Butch Hartman
- Chris Savino
- Dan Scanlon
- Dick Lundy (animator)
- Emud Mokhberi
- Helen Ogger
- Jack Zander
- John Randolph Bray
- Layron DeJarnette
- Rob Oliver
- Tom Tataranowicz
- Winsor McCay
Clay animators
- Art Clokey
- Bob Gardiner (animator)
- Brad Peyton
- Bruce Bickford (animator)
- Craig Bartlett
- David Sproxton
- Eli Noyes
- Giuliano Cenci
- Helena Smith Dayton
- Jan Švankmajer
- Joan C. Gratz
- Lee Hardcastle
- Nick Park
- Otmar Gutmann
- Peter Lord
- Robert Grossman (artist)
- Rony Oren
- Scott DaRos
- Steve Box
- Tunde Adebimpe
- Will Vinton
- Willis H. O'Brien
Deaths from urinary tract infection
- Art Clokey
- Carlos Romero Barceló
- Erastus Brooks
- Grumpy Cat
- Hiren Bhattacharyya
- John Dickens
- John Micklethwaite
- K. Balachander
- Mariana Bridi Costa
- Narciso Ibáñez Serrador
- Rogéria
- Rosalynn Carter
- Wyatt Earp
Television producers from Michigan
- Adolph Mongo
- Al Jean
- Andrea Feczko
- Art Clokey
- Betsy Thomas
- Bill Prady
- Butch Hartman
- Byron Allen
- Chris Savino
- Cynthia Mort
- Danny Thomas
- David S. Goyer
- Elizabeth Meriwether
- Fred Goss
- Gail Kobe
- Glenn Kessler (screenwriter)
- Horace Sheffield III
- John Damoose
- John W. Hyde
- Jon Glaser
- Jordan Klepper
- Keegan-Michael Key
- McG
- Michael Schur
- Paul Feig
- Rachelle Wilkos
- Sam Raimi
- Sinbad (comedian)
- Stephen Chao
- Tim Robinson (comedian)
- Todd A. Kessler
- Tom Welling
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Clokey
Also known as Clokey Films, Clokey Productions, Clokey Productions, Inc., Prema Toy, Prema Toy Co, Prema Toy Co., Prema Toy Company, Premavision, Premavision Inc., Premavision/Clokey Productions.