Editing Art Clokey (section)

==Clay animation==
Art Clokey also made a few highly experimental and visually inventive short clay animation films for adults, including his first student film ''Gumbasia'' (produced in 1953 and released in 1955), the visually rich ''Mandala'' (1977)—described by Clokey as a metaphor for evolving human consciousness—and the equally bizarre ''The Clay Peacock'' (1959), an elaboration on the animated [[NBC]] logo of the time.<ref>These films have recently become available for purchase by the public and are included in the [[Rhino Entertainment|Rhino]] box-set release of Gumby's television shorts.</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.gumbyworld.com/art-clokey/the-clay-peacock/|title=Art Clokey's Clay Peacock|website=www.gumbyworld.com}}</ref> Consisting of animated clay shapes contorting to a jazz score, ''Gumbasia'' so intrigued Samuel G. Engel, then president of the Motion Pictures Producers Association, that he financed the pilot film for what became Clokey's ''The [[Gumby]] Show'' (1957). The title ''Gumbasia'' was in homage to Walt Disney's ''[[Fantasia (1940 film)|Fantasia]]''.

In 1987, Clokey provided the voice for the figure Pokey in [[Arnold Leibovit]]'s film ''[[The Puppetoon Movie]]'', and voiced him thereafter.

The Clokeys are credited with the clay-animation [[Film title design|title sequences]] for the 1965 beach movies ''[[Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine]]'' and ''[[How to Stuff a Wild Bikini]]''. His son, Joe Clokey, continued the ''[[Davey and Goliath]]'' cartoon in 2004. In March 2007, [[KQED (TV)|KQED-TV]] broadcast the hour-long documentary ''Gumby Dharma'' as part of their ''Truly CA'' series.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.kqed.org/arts/truly/episode.jsp?eid=160077 |title=KQED &#124; Public TV: Truly CA: Home: Gumby Dharma |access-date=2007-03-26 |archive-date=2007-03-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070321020942/http://www.kqed.org/arts/truly/episode.jsp?eid=160077 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In 1995, Clokey directed and co-wrote (with his second wife, Gloria) ''[[Gumby: The Movie]]'', a feature film. The movie was not a success at the box office and was widely panned by critics, although it saw modest success on home media, going on to sell more than a million copies on home media, cementing itself as a [[cult classic]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Clokey|first=Joe|title=Gumby Imagined: The Story of Art Clokey and his Creations|publisher=[[Dynamite Entertainment|Dynamite]]|year=2017|isbn=9781524104344|pages=228}}</ref>