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Gumby's DNA: Art Clokey's Gumbasia.

Please hold your beatnik applause until the end...

Thank goodness for the Internet Archive.  Among the zillions of old movies, radio shows, racy Betty Boop cartoons, countless texts, and other out-of-copyright treasures, resides this gem from Gumby creator Art Clokey, produced in 1953 and intended as a parody (?) of Disney's Fantasia.  Apparently Gumbasia did well enough financially that it funded the pilot of the first Gumby TV show, whose creative weirdness I adored as a very young kid.   It's quite the discordantly jazzy and fascinating little trip.

http://archive.org/details/Gumbasia
http://www.gumbyworld.com/

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