It continues to air. Thousands of newspapers along with all the TV networks honor his work. Gumby, who was molded from clay in , celebrates his 60th birthday. He gears up for 2 more years of anniversary celebrations. Fans never seem to get enough of Gumby.
They dress in Gumby costumes at sporting events and concerts, don Gumby hairdos and create Gumby mash-ups in every digital medium. Branches of the U. History Gumby and Art Clokey have a long and interesting history. Clokey based the angle on a photograph of his father when he was a teenager. The poufy cowlick featured prominently in the photo fascinated Clokey, which he affectionately referred to as a " bump of wisdom. Image: gumbyworld. Not many people were creating stop motion claymation in the s.
As a result, Clokey basically had a monopoly on the field. The other famous animated show featuring clay characters in the s, Davey and Goliath , was created by Clokey and produced by the Lutheran Church in America. You're not crazy if you think Gumby sounds a little familiar. The person behind the character, Dallas McKennon, lent his voice to dozens of animated feature films throughout the years.
After children's programming turned mostly to cartoons in the s, Gumby had been forgotten by the time the '80s rolled around. However, an unlikely person brought the character back into the spotlight: Eddie Murphy. The comedian's raunchy impersonation of the beloved character sparked interest again, and by the end of the decade new episodes were being produced. Image: NBCUniversal. Because nostalgia for Gumby was growing in the s, Clokey and McKennon decided to team up and create a feature film.
Completed in and released in , Gumby: The Movie featured the Blockheads kidnapping Gumby and creating a robotic replacement for him. If you're like us, this list must have you pining for Gumby, Pokey and the Blockheads. Although no new series is currently in development, full episodes of the classic s series are on YouTube. The kid's entertainment channel Kabillion features the series on its channel, so you can relive the wacky adventures of one of your favorite cartoon characters.
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Check out what we have to offer at the MeTV Store. Welcome to MeTV! Find your local MeTV station. Where to watch. See when your favorite shows are on. Dallas McKennon returned as the voice of Gumby in new adventures that would take Gumby and his pals beyond their toyland-type setting and establish themselves as a sing-a-long band.
In addition to the new episodes, the classic s and s shorts were re-run as part of the series, but with newly recorded soundtracks, with the voices re-recorded and the original music replaced by Jerry Gerber's synthesizer score from the series.
Clokey's rights to use the original Capitol Records production tracks could not be renewed at the time, due to legal issues. Most episodes are available on home video and DVD. In , the character appeared in The Puppetoon Movie.
In , Clokey's production company produced an independently released theatrical film, Gumby: The Movie aka Gumby 1 , marking the clay character's first feature-length adventure. The Library of Congress had Gumby as a spokescharacter from to , 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. In August , the first video game featuring Gumby, Gumby vs. In it, Gumby must rescue Pokey, Prickle, and Goo after they are captured by the Blockheads and their cohorts, the Astrobots. The Gumby images and toys are registered trademarks of Prema Toy Company. Premavision owns the distribution rights to the Gumby cartoons having been reverted from previous distributor Warner Bros.
Television , and has licensed the rights to Classic Media of which said licensing ends in September Prema Toy Inc. The event, conceived by David Scheve of T. Animation and Joe Clokey of Premavision was one of several exhibits that opened around the country, celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the animated series The Gumby Show, which began production in the fall of , and debuted on NBC in March [ citation needed ]. On March 16, , YouTube announced that all Gumby episodes would appear in their full-length form on its site, digitally remastered and with their original soundtracks.
This deal also extended to other video sites, including AOL. In , Gumby was nominated for two Eisner Awards.
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