Gumby Dharma | KQED Truly CA 

I cried at the end when Art Clokey was dancing with Gumby and Pokey

For anyone who didn't know, care or whatever, Art Clokey produced all of the gumby shorts, [at least the orginal ones} in his garage using am 8mm camera and real toys from the era. Let anyone from Pixar or Dreamworks try that now

Loved the small dance he did in the credits. Art was pretty energetic even in his old age.

RIP, Mr. Clokey! Gumby was a huge part of my childhood, and I still love it as an adult. I especially appreciate the morals, lessons and values of this truly wholesome, entertaining clay cartoon. Even as a child, watching Gumby (along with having great parents!) made me truly want to be a better person... It still does!

Krishna and Alan Watts references and only 20 minutes in….. What an inspiring gentleman, Mr. Art.

R I P Art Clokey. May God grant you eternal repose.

Such a beautiful and moving film.

Man, i miss Art Clokey, he was so nice.

I'm so thankful that The Truly CA Team made this before Art died!

I naively almost didn't watch this based on negative comments but I'm so glad I did! What a cool breakdown of the best stop animation show on earth!

22:53 to be honest, seeing those interviews of pokey are emotional, cause those are the last times Art Clokey voiced him

Always loved Gumby and just found this today after searching for the real thing (brought to mind by Eddie Murphy on SNL). Amazing story of Art Clokey's life-saving adoption and how it brought love to so many households!

Gumby was the best show ever when my sister Jillian and I were kids. Jillian watched it first back in the 80s before I came along the 90s. The best show we’ll never forget in the rest of our lives.

I can’t believe I got to hear Gumby say “Divorce”.

A fun documentary brought back many happy memories of my childhood. Art Clokey was and always will be a genius.

What a dork. With a huge heart. Art seems like a really cool guy. Glad he left such a huge mark on the world. I hope my fundamentalist Christian dad will take a look at the spiritual stuff Art was into and understand being non-Christian doesn't make other texts demonic.

Really appreciated finding this documentary. I never knew about Gumby before but really valued Morph a plasticine animated figure and the Aardman studios work in the UK, so really appreciated learning about Gumby as part of the history of animation and in particular the insightful documentary about Art's life as creators of the characters in the animation. Thank you. Really inspiring and insightful and thought-provoking.

Much respect from one artist to another. He’s so inspirational. I love his advice.

"art met the love of his life, gloria at a nudist camp." "it wasn't a nudist camp."

39:27, 41:56 Wow… Kinda bizarre seeing Gumby act so serious and sad (it’s just weird because we’re so used to seeing him when he’s such a happy carefree character and everything…) Love his usual self, but honestly it’s kinda cool how they experimented with him having a different side outside his own show, kinda like Cartoon Network City or something, but honestly though, characters being more real like this you barely get to see these days for cartoons, kinda wish they would do it like this again more often…. (It’s like SpongeBob showing anger when he’s usually super happy and carefree or Roger Rabbit being heartbroken crying when he’s usually a jokester being super happy making other people happy… This is similar to those, but honestly kinda cool to see a different side to him we never saw in the shows… :) 31:38 Gumby blushing though too! Aww! 🥰😊💖💖💖 Fun fact: Dallas didn’t voice Gumby for the segments (probably because of age), but some other guy named Stephen A. Buckley, REALLY hope they can get this guy to fill in his shoes as Gumby for a Gumby reboot, he’s probably THE closest to Dallas’ character as Gumby we’ll ever beable to get these days, (he’s really good!) everyone else I heard, yeah, they aren’t that good or even close…

I used to watch Gumby on cartoon network when i was Young. Didn't watch him again till 2016 still watch him in 2019

I've always loved Gumby-! Thanks for this Documentary.

16:33 Ladies and Gentlemen, Dal McKennon, the voice of Gumby, Archie Andrews, and some characters including Laughing Hyena of Disney animated features and Disney theme parks!

thanks for sharing KQED Arts

(21:17) I guess at the time they could not find the original soundtrack version of that Gumby episode, so they had to use the '80s version with the re-dubbed music and voices. This was during a time when they insisted everything have the original audio (as many of the other old Gumby clips demonstrate.) Some of that new animation of Gumby and Pokey being interviewed looks a lot like it came straight out of the 1988 episodes. Now imagine new Gumby episodes in high-definition and that style... (They'll need to find good voices for Gumby and Pokey though!)

I had no idea about Mr. Clokey's childhood being the way it was... I did not know that he came from a "broken home," so to speak... Sadly, his childhood situation is more or less "average" by 21st Century standards, but even in the 1980s (when I was a kid) divorce/single parents were not "abrormal," but this was still considered a "broken home," as it should be *-NOT* in a "shameful" sense, but in the sense that the nuclear family 👪 should be what a man and a woman plan when pro-creating... I realise that sometimes things happen, where it is best for the children for a toxic marriage to separate, which is why couples should *really, REALLY* think in the long-term before even *thinking* of having children. I imagine *-and this is just my personal speculation,* that Art created Gumby as a way to relive his childhood in an idealistic way... I might be 100% wrong, but even though I was blessed to have both parents in my life, and still married, until my beloved, kind-hearted father died in my late 30s, but I DID suffer some traumatic things as a child, that I won't get into... Anyhow, I can relate to wanting to "relive" those years in a more *positive* and happier way... If that makes sense?

Gumby is wildly psychedelic.

I grew up loving gumby ad a kid and still love it.thiscwas such a nice documentary

7:56 :( poor Art! You will never win choosing someone over your child!

R.I.P. Art Clokey

Fantastic piece, thanks so much for this.

Tomy James Moments: 7:25 10:52 11:01 11:41 ( I'll edit when I find more )

Dave Attell talked about this Doc on WTF with Marc Maron

He saved the faith of millions of otherwise disillusioned children and possibly adults!😊

6:34 I see a Tomica James right there!

“Gumby is a product of light, and light is love.”

i love gumby!

What happened to his sister and his kids, though? What happened to Ruth?

Gumby's voice is so funky

Thoroughly impressed and inspired.

The train that Gumby rides at 7:25 is a modified TOMY James from Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends.

3:03 The rare intro to The Gumby Show with Pinky Lee. I wish someone would post the original intro. Only the audio is available online but not the video.

Lol, that Lutheran kid and his dog! 23:29 That house kind of looks like a Lutheran church! I've noticed a lot of the supporting/background characters in the 1960s Gumby episodes DO look like D&G characters

You've got a friend in me gumby, pokey, prickle and goo R.I.P Art clockey and gloria clockey husband and wife 🌺🌻🌼🌸🌹🌷

Dal McKennon is in the documentary being interviewed, but he didn't reprises his role as Gumby. Gumby was voiced by Stephen A. Buckley in this documentary. Buckley was involved in the late 80's Gumby cartoons and 1995's Gumby the Movie. Dal McKennon probably officially retired from voice acting during making the documentary. But Art Clokey did reprises his role as the voice of Pokey for the last time ever before his eventual death in 2010.

Truly one in a million r.i.p. art clokey

So beautiful

that was amazing~

gumby rules did you kouw that gumby has a his own pizza place named gumbypizza

What an amazing documentary, thank you 💗

I love Gumby this comment was made in 2022 as of right now there has been no more Gumby episodes and I will try to update this comment every year

I LOVE the cartoon at 23:44.

I had no idea he also did Davy and Goliath.

I used to watch it years ago.

It's a shame that Robina Marchesi, the director of this Gumby documentary died before it was eventually aired. She probably died before it was even finished yet.

R.I.P art clokey love you forever

Now I assume they digitally recolored Gumby for these shots of the 50s-60s episodes, due to the fact that the green used for the episodes came out blueish on camera.

TOMY James and rolling stock

10:50 Does anyone know which episode this footage comes from?

Gumby’s a part of meeee

Ironic that Art Clokey who also created the Christian children's claymotion show, "Davey and Goliath" is a Zen Buddhist and into studying the other East Asian religions. It would be no surprise that Art Clokey prefers Gumby over Davey and Goliath especially because the Gumby cartoons pretty much tried to avoid anything to do with Christianity, in fact, pretty much any other religions, especially the religion he's in. Eddie Murphy did a parody version of Gumby who is Jewish in Saturday Night Live.

I wonder if he's with his daughter now 🤔

Is no one gonna talk about James?

thanks for sharing

GUMBY 💚

the Lawn Party film looks a lot like the stuff, Norman McLaren a Canadian filmmaker was doing at the same time!

Is that Dallas McKennon doing Gumby in this?

I hear a gumby reboot will come out soon, who do you think could voice him?

so first the mom cheats on her husband for a cop they were kind enough to rent a room to, then the cop makes her choose him or her son, heartbreaking.

Who's the singer in the theme song? The credits don't really help much.

Art With Gumby and Pokey 53:56

5:20 Is that same voice actor for gumby or someone else?

The episode from 18:48 to 19:11?

27:05 why is gumby in a wheelchair

Why was he rejected?

The white blasts weren't meteors, they were supernovas they did the explosion by using a doodle

Gumby

52:30 James what are u doing here?

11:05 Ruth Clokey.

39:34 whats is the liquid in his eyes

Funny I have the dvd of this

7:26 11:02 11:42 Tomy James 🚂

24:45 ITS STINGY!

Is that a CGI Gumby?

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The gumby franchise is not over yet, I am making a fan made sequel dedicated to art clokey called THE GUMBY Movie 2 witch comes out later in the summer. And I plan it to be The ending and the finale to the gumby franchise

Then and now--Animators were always the biggest hipsters in society. Very much as part of the counterculture as rock stars---some even resemble rock stars

Robot Rump?

5:14

10:52

HOL UP I SAW JAMES THE RED ENGINE

@24:24 Shit gets real.

Modified James the Red Engine: 7:25, 11:41 and 52:30

I was very disappointed with this documentary. It is too short, and it is badly edited and structured. We did not need to have "interviews" with Gumby and Pokey. We certainly did not need to hear Gumby commenting on Clokey's daughter's suicide. That was just creepy. And does anyone else think it's a bit odd that Clokey seems more regretful about his drug addiction in the 60's than he does about his daughter hanging herself?

reminds me of Shrek

50s version is way Better than this the 50s version is so garbage

gumby is horrifying