Clark Gist was an animator and illustrator who contributed multiple animated segments to Sesame Street, under his studio's name Gist Zeppelin Fleet,[1] formed in 1973.[2] These include The Bridgekeeper series and various stand-alone inserts. The character designs for these spots are marked by particularly round and close set eyes, noses which either protrude or slope downward into the face, and skinny limbs with outsized hands and rounded joints (the latter akin to Popeye and other classic cartoon characters).
Gist worked with writer George Atkins, who scripted Gist's Sesame Street segments, on the latter's 1966 comedy album Washington Is For The Birds (re-editing actual dialogue by Lyndon B. Johnson and others), with Clark Gist credited as production assistant. They worked again on Laugh-In magazine, with Atkins as editor/head writer and Gist as a designer. In animation, before starting his own company, he directed The Electric Company segments produced by Tony Benedict's studio, including "Hound Sound"[3] and the Tom Lehrer segment "Silent E."[4]
Gist's Christian children's book version of Alice in Wonderland, trademarked in 1985 as God's Wonderland, was published posthumously as Alice in God's Wonderland in 2018.
Filmography[]
See The Bridgekeeper for those segments
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