Gumbo: First Rubber Part II

Any film that takes itself as seriously “Rambo: First Blood Part II” calls out for parody. This mash-up of Gumby and Rambo came about as an informal film festival challenge at work in 1985 where the entries had to be made from a single roll of Super-8 film with all edits IN CAMERA. Choosing to create an animated, stop-motion film, instead of live-action, gave me the ability to plan and execute each scene more carefully, but the pressure was on since there could not be any retakes of any shots. Everything was shot straight-ahead, in order, by myself in a 24 hour period.