Arthur "Art" Clokey who was born on October 12, 1921 was the revolutionary who pioneered the popularization of stop motion clay animation with his 1953 experimental film, “Gumbasia,”which used stop-motion clay animation set to a lively jazz tempo. Soon affter it became the inspiration for the subsequent Gumby TV show when the president of 20th Century Fox saw the film and asked Clokey to produce a children’s television show based on the idea.Clokey used an old photo of his deceased father, which shows him with a large wave of hair protruding from the right side of his head as a referance when he designed Gumby as the main character. He as also made the movies Dr.Golfoot and the Bikini Machine and the Clay Peacock.
