Ep 56 | The Adventures of Mark Twain & Closed Monday's/Gumby Zoops & Rain for Roo | BYF

Batyards Finest

💥 Tonight on Batyard’s Finest Podcast a #claymation extravaganza! 🧤Gumby Zoops & Rain for Roo 🌧. Will Vinton’s The Adventures of Mark Twain ☄️ & Closed Monday’s 🖼. 🧤Gumby 🍉 Zoops - An old man sells Gumby a potion 🧪 that turns watermelon into strange animals that zip around crying “zoop, zoop, zoop!” but there is trouble when magic potion is washed off… 🧤Gumby 🌧 Rain for Roo - Gumby Shows the King Ott 👑 how to make rain for the kingdom, but something goes wrong and it rains mud instead. Closed Mondays 🖼 - is an eight-minute animated film using three-dimensional clay figures, created by Bob Gardiner and filmed by Will Vinton in 1974. It was produced by Lighthouse Productions, released by Pyramid Films in the United States, and won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1975. The Adventures of Mark Twain ☄️ - In this claymation film, celebrated author Mark Twain (James Whitmore), displeased with the state of humanity, sets off in a hot-air balloon to meet his celestial destiny: Halley's Comet. Stowed away on the craft are beloved characters from Twain's stories -- Tom Sawyer (Chris Ritchie), Becky Thatcher (Michele Mariana) and Huckleberry Finn.