Gumbasia is a 3-minute short film released on September 2, 1953, the first clay animation produced by Art Clokey.
[1] Clokey created Gumbasia while a student at the University of Southern California under the direction of Slavko Vorkapić.
[2] The film is a surreal short of pulsating shapes and lumps of clay set to jazz music in a homage of Walt Disney's Fantasia.
[3] Gumbasia was created in a style Vorkapić taught, called Kinesthetic Film Principles and described as "massaging of the eye cells".
Based on camera movements and stop-motion editing, this provides much of the look and feel of Gumby films.