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Gumby (Picture 4). Gumby cartoon images gallery 4. Gumby cartoon pictures collection 4. Gumby was inspired by a suggestion from Clokey's wife Ruth that he base his character on the Gingerbread man. Gumby was green simply because that was Clokey's favorite color. Gumby's legs and feet were made wide for pragmatic reasons: they ensured the clay character would stand up during stop-motion filming. The famous slanted shape of Gumby's head was based on the hair style of Clokey's father Charles Farrington in an old photograph. Female performers (among them Ginny Tyler and Nancy Wible) supplied Gumby's voice during the initial episodes. New episodes were added from 1961 to 1963, at which time Dallas McKennon became the voice of Gumby. Production continued through 1966-1968, by which time Norma MacMillan voiced Gumby. Gumby (Picture 4). Gumby cartoon images gallery 4. Gumby cartoon pictures collection 4. By the 1980s, the original Gumby shorts had enjoyed a revival, both on television and home video. This led to a new incarnation of the series for television syndication by Lorimar-Telepictures in 1988 that included new characters, like Gumby's little sister Minga and a mastodon named Denali. Dallas McKennon returned as the voice of Gumby in new adventures that would take Gumby and his pals beyond their toyland-type setting and establish themselves as a rock band. In addition to the new episodes, the classic 1950's and 1960's shorts were re-run as part of the series, but with newly recorded soundtracks, with the voiced re-recorded and the original music replaced by Jerry Gerber's score from the 1988 series (Clokey's rights to use the original Capitol Records production tracks could not be renewed at the time, due to legal issues.). Art Clokey reportedly gave many movie industry talents their first break in the business. A number of the clay animators who worked on the new series went on to work for Pixar, Disney and other studios. Gumby (Picture 4). Gumby cartoon images gallery 4. Gumby cartoon pictures collection 4.