Zeenews Bureau
New Delhi: Google is back with yet another interesting doodle. The popular search engine is celebrating the 90th birthday of Arthur 'Art' Clokey today.
Clokey was the first artist to popularize stop motion and clay animation. He made a film titled ‘Gumbasia’ in the year 1955 as an experiment and got great support from his professor.
The master artist along with his wife Ruth, created 'Gumby'. The iconic character and his horse Pokey were a huge hit on television and appeared with 'Howdy Doody Show' and 'The Adventures of Gumby'.
Hollywood actor Eddie Murphy got so inspired by the character that he parodied Gumby in the 1980s on 'Saturday Night Live'. And in the 1990s more and more number of people started following the character with the release of 'Gumby: The Movie. '
Clokey also produced 'Davey and Goliath'. And to celebrate Clokey, Google has paid its tribute in its own doodle way!
First Published: Wednesday, October 12, 2011, 10:13