GUMBY Stop Motion Production SET Signed ART CLOKEY 1980

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TheDeepArchives Animation / Fine Art Gallery specializing in RARE and OBSCURE Animation FOR MORE INFORMATION call or email Animated STOP-MOTION TELEVISION SERIES Art Clokey's GUMBY Adventures Item Type : Rare Original Animation Production Stop motion SET of MACDUFF'S MERCANTILE from the 1980s Animated Television Series.(DOES NOT INCLUDE PUPPETS) Condition :GoodThese are the Original Production pieces that appeared under the camera during production of the original 1980s Animated Television Series.Hand Signed by ART CLOKEYNOTES: Gumby is a green clay humanoid figure who was the subject of a 233-episode series of American television which spanned over a 35-year period. [1 ] He was animated using stop motion clay animation . Gumby 's principal sidekick is Pokey , a talking pony voiced by Art Clokey and Dallas McKennon at different times, and his nemeses are the Blockheads , a pair of humanoid, red-colored figures with block-shaped heads, who wreak mischief and havoc at all times. The Blockheads were inspired by the Katzenjammer Kids , who were always getting into scrapes and causing discomfort to others. [2 ] Other characters are Gumby's dog Nopey (who responds to everything with a gloomy "nope"); and Prickle , a yellow dinosaur who sometimes styles himself as a detective with pipe and deerstalker hat like Sherlock Holmes . [ 3] Also featured are Goo , a flying blue mermaid who spits blue goo-balls and can change her physical shape at will; Gumby's mother Gumba and father Gumbo . The later series on Nickelodeon added Gumby's sister Minga and mastodon friend Denali .In 1987, the character appeared in The Puppetoon Movie . In 1995, Clokey's production company produced an independently released theatrical film, Gumby I (aka Gumby: The Movie ), marking the clay character's first feature-length adventure. In it, the villainous Blockheads replace Gumby and his band with robots and kidnap their dog, Lowbelly. The movie featured in-joke homages to such sci-fi classics as Star Wars , The Terminator , and 2001: A Space Odyssey . Starting in 1992, TV channels like Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network aired re-runs of Gumby episodes.The Library of Congress had Gumby as a spokescharacter from 1994 to 1995, due to a common sequence in his shows where Gumby walks into a book, and then experiences the world inside the book as a tangible place. By the end of the decade, Gumby and Pokey had appeared in commercials for Cheerios cereal, most notably Frosted Cheerios .Although no new animated Gumby material is planned for the foreseeable future, [citation needed ] most of the episodes (with a few exceptions) of the two series are available on home video and DVD .In August 2005, the first video game featuring Gumby, Gumby vs. the Astrobots , was released by Namco for the Game Boy Advance . In it, Gumby must rescue Pokey, Prickle, and Goo after they are captured by the Blockheads and their cohorts, the Astrobots. Also in the summer of 2005, an event produced by TheDeepArchives/TDA Animation was held in New York. The exhibit featured props, storyboards and script pages from various Gumby shorts over the past 50 years, as well as toys and other memorabilia that had appeared during Gumby's "career," including a reproduction of Eddie Murphy 's Saturday Night Live Gumby costume. The centerpiece of the show was an actual complete set used in the production of a TV commercial for Gumby vs. the Astrobots .In San Francisco, California, Studio Z held "Gumby's 50th Birthday Party" with Gumby creator Art Clokey. The bands Smash Mouth and Remoter played at the party, hosted by comedian Kevin Meaney . The party/comedy tribute was written by comedy writer and stage director Martin Olson and Gumby's creative director and composer Robert F. Thompson. It was produced by Missing Link Media Ventures and Clokey Productions.In 2006, The Center for Puppetry Arts , Atlanta , Georgia , hosted the most comprehensive Clokey/Gumby exhibiti... read more

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