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1955 In Animation
Events in 1955 in animation. Events January * January 29: The pilot episode of Art Clokey's '' Gumby'' airs. It will become a full series a year later. February * February 12: Chuck Jones's '' Beanstalk Bunny'' premieres, starring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons . March * March 30: 27th Academy Awards: The Mr. Magoo short film '' When Magoo Flew'', produced by UPA and directed by Pete Burness, wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short. April * April 11: Tex Avery's '' The Legend of Rockabye Point'' premieres, produced by Walter Lantz. * April 16: Bob McKimson's ''The Hole Idea'' is first released, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons, an animated short he directed and animated almost entirely on his own. * April 26 - May 10: 1955 Cannes Film Festival: Jiří Trnka's ''The Good Soldier Schweik'' premieres. June * June 6: Tex Avery's animated short ''Sh-h-h-h-h-h'' is first released, produced by Walter Lantz Productions. It is th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art Clokey
Arthur "Art" Clokey (born Arthur Charles Farrington; October 12, 1921 – January 8, 2010) was an American pioneer in the popularization of stop-motion clay animation, best known as the creator of the character Gumby and the original voice of Gumby's sidekick, Pokey. Clokey's career began in 1953 with a film experiment called '' Gumbasia'', which was influenced by his professor, Slavko Vorkapich, at the University of Southern California. Clokey and his wife Ruth subsequently came up with the clay character Gumby and his horse Pokey, who first appeared in the ''Howdy Doody Show'' and later got their own series ''The Adventures of Gumby'', from which they became a familiar presence on American television. The characters enjoyed a renewal of interest in the 1980s when American actor and comedian Eddie Murphy parodied Gumby in a skit on ''Saturday Night Live''. Clokey's second-most famous production is the duo of ''Davey and Goliath'', funded by the Lutheran Church in America (n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |