Late last night, I was surfing around YouTube with my ten year old daughter.  I was showing her clips of some of the old cartoons that I watched -- Peter Potamus, Yippee Yappee and Yahooey, Magilla Gorilla, etc.  She's been interested in stop motion animation lately, so I showed her an old Gumby film, "Small Planets".

She fell asleep, and I googled Gumby creator Art Clokey.  Ironically, the top search result was a news story telling of his death just the day before at the age of 88.

The first clip is his first stop animation film, "Gumbasia".  Hard to believe that it was made in 1953.  After that, "Small Planets".  Art Clokey, RIP.