"Son of Liberty"(1966)

Son of Liberty (1966)
Produced, directed, & written by
ART CLOKEY
Production Supervision & Photography by
RAYMOND PECK
Voices by DAL McKINNON (sic)
Music by GENE KAUER & DOUG LACKEY (uncredited*)
Sound by AUDIO EFFECTS CO.
Animation by J.DANFORTH,etc.
Produced in association with LAKESIDE TOYS
July 1966

TV TROPES:
Big Bad: The Revolutionaries, who emerge from a book.

Cameo: The Groobee from the 1959 cartoon of the same name

Sudden shot: The cannon that shoots through the book, thus closing the episode.

Teleportation: Gumby and Pokey, as often, and mentioned in the 60s groovie-bubblegum pop tune a little later, (the one quoted in the blog name) can go thru any book.




During the mid 1960s the dawn of new Gumby episodes---a third series, was to be done. This would help get the franchise back
on track with MORE episodes, and even onscreen credits---as well as a visitor from a previous episode.
Gumby and Pokey--that's yours truly -play around outside an American History book in a toy store when some enemy soldiers come out and chase
G&P around. Gumby decides to get a cannon and then shoot them into the book. The soldiers come and in some panning shots chase Gumby acorss
the toystore. The crate-building Groobee from the 1961 episode must've really give a love-bite to the Neilsen folks and the executives in the television
programming departments and stations, for the giant helpful insect returns for the first of three times to build crates around the Revolutationary War enemy
soldiers. They then present the soldiers to the President! But then the cannon goes off chasing everyone off, and then the credits appear.
With this one the show would go back to new episodes through 1969. By this time the background music includes cues from Sam Singer's "Trans-Artists Productions"
Television" (as the company went under the name of on "Courageous Cat' from the much earlier nineteen-sixties on teleivision), and heard along the way in
producer Singer's "Sinbad"(and Salty). This includes the jaunty, catchy, slide flute cue that skips along as a theme for Gumby and plays during the credits. It would
then go on to be joined by director-animator Pete Kneinow's theme with lyhrics (the source of the title of this blog!-Kleinow had been with the Flying Burrito Borthers abnd.)

HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY!

To celebrate..here's the famous 1966-vintage episode "Son of Liberty". Notice Gumby's voice is more heavily sped up and the date on beginning and end credits, crediting the unbeatable Dallas "McKinnon"(McKennon) for the voices and Audio Effects Inc. for sound effects though no music credit...Ray Peck is credited photography director:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTlDX0fcNfA

Guess which review's coming next??