Earl Hurd | |
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 Hurd in 1917, with Bobby Bumps superimposed | |
| Born | September 14, 1880 Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.[1] |
| Died | September 28, 1940 (aged 60) Burbank, California, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Animator, film director, comic strip cartoonist |
| Years active | 1911–1940 |
| Relatives | Andy Luckey (cousin twice removed) |
Earl Hurd (September 14, 1880 – September 28, 1940) was a pioneering American animator and film director. He is noted for creating and producing the silent Bobby Bumps animated short subject series for early animation producer J.R. Bray's Bray Productions. Hurd and Bray are jointly responsible for developing the processes involved in cel animation, and were granted patents for their processes in 1914.[2]
Animator Andy Luckey is a maternal cousin, twice removed, of Hurd's.
- ^ Bendazzi, Giannalberto (1994). Cartoons: One hundred years of cinema animation. Translated by Anna Taraboletti-Segre. Indiana University Press. p. 21. ISBN 0-253-20937-4.
- ^ Barrier, Michael (1999). Hollywood cartoons : American animation in its golden age. Oxford University Press. pp. 14–15. ISBN 978-0-19-503759-3.