Gumbasia Remixia

Pretty good, better than the soundtrack replacement for legal reasons, regarding the 1980s remakes of the original era episodes, dontcha think??

Gumbasia, Before Gumby (1953) - Art Clokey

Sorry for being dormant on this but for the 65th anniversary of pilot, "Gumbasia", 1953, here's the pilot itself---and NO re - sound - tracking as with the show itself!



This one was made in 1953 with backing by a Fox executive, which thus makes it kind of wierd that 20th.Century Fox never took up the Gumby series distribution (and everything to the video distributions..of course we are glad that the rights for everything within it Clokey and company's.)



Anyway, hope that you enjoy this post...



Pokey..SC



PS none of us Gumby characters actually in it,though naturally..

RIP, JOE CLOKEY

It grieves me to report that another member of the Gumby family, Art Clokey's son Joe, has passed away. I don't know of the causes, but apparent his widow Ruth who cowrote the recent GUMBY IMAGINED book, will take over the empire. Art himself died back in 2010 (1921-2010).

New Book Out

In case you haven't heard, (Art's son) Joe Clokey (and sister/) Ruth(?) Rock Clokey have a new book out, supposed to be very in-depth, "Gumby Imagined". It's on Amazon, but I haven't gotten enough previews past the opening to see if it has my, and the others's adventures in=depth in the 50s and 60s (it has the IMHO rotten 1980s show on cover..).It'd be great to see the complete cast voices for the original two decades and (with ACCURATE AS POSSIBLE!) original broadcast dates, even stock music cues..

Gumby Sings - NBC Pilot episode

Motor Mania

MOTOR MANIA (1967)

NOTE: Not to be confused with the 1950 Walt Disney short with Goofy (goes with out saying though)

Producer:
ART CLOKEY

Writers-Directors:
ARTHUR CLOKEY
PETER KLEINOW
RAYMOND PECK

Cast:
Gumby;Pokey/NORMA MacMILLAN
Reggie Van Snoot/?

Music:
JOHNNY HOLLIDAY
LACKEY & KAUER


Aired:1967-68

Happy New year, and back to, finally, a new reivew (rhymes...) Once upon a time Disney-Lantz director Jack Kinney directed a very funny Goofy cartoon,
"Motor Mania". (1950)..17 years later, Art Clokey codirected a likewise titled Gumby short with some of humor but more a chase cartoon.

It shows Gumby
and a (later in the short) bitter pony pal Pokey,too.

Pokey is usually the cynical one, but he and Gumby have to use their ususal teamwork against a racer whom they're planning now to race against:
Reggie Van snoot, a teenage, rich, racer with the voice of the Soda Jerk from "Shady Lemonade" & "Dragon Daffy", as heard in "Shady Leminade"
(probaly most likely Clokey himself).

Midway thru the episode, Gumby's racer breaks down (flashbacks of "The Racing Game/Gumby Racer", 1957, anyone? :-)) and Gumby (get ready for another
flashback to that one) improvises..not merging with Pokey but USING him with hm on wheels and Gumby on top.

A 1967 Clokey racer car.

With one horse power.

4-speed manual

Gets much to the clay gallon

Now able to resume racing, Gumby and Pokey go fast aorund the track, catching up to and surpassing Reggie Van Snoot and ultimately winning!

Norma MacMillan did Pokey's voice actually very successfully, like in the (already reviewed here) "Mystic Magic" and seems to be the voice here as well.

Opening title:
gears instead of "O" in the word Motor.

Open backgrond music: One of the usual Gumby chase themes.
The clayboy/pony get in Gumby's racer, and successfully enter the race, open to anyone, and then get the usual
business from Reg, who outdistances the