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{{Short description|American animator and film director}}
{{Short description|American animator and director (1880–1940)}}
{{Infobox person
{{Infobox person
| name = Earl Hurd
| name = Earl Hurd
| image = Bobby Bumps Goes Fishing.jpg
| image =Earl Hurd, 1917.jpg
| caption = ''Bobby Bumps Goes Fishing'' (1916)
| caption = Hurd in 1917, with Bobby Bumps superimposed
| birth_name = Fredrick Earl Hurd <ref>Find a Grave</ref>
| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{birth date|mf=yes|1880|09|14}}
| birth_date = {{birth date|1880|9|14}}
| birth_place = [[Kansas City, Missouri]], U.S.<ref name="bendazzi-21">{{cite book |last=Bendazzi |first=Giannalberto |title=Cartoons: One hundred years of cinema animation |publisher=[[Indiana University Press]] |year=1994 |isbn=0-253-20937-4 |translator=Anna Taraboletti-Segre |page=[https://archive.org/details/cartoons00gian/page/21 21] |url=https://archive.org/details/cartoons00gian/page/21 }}</ref>
| birth_place = [[Kansas City, Missouri]], U.S.<ref name="bendazzi-21">{{cite book |last=Bendazzi |first=Giannalberto |title=Cartoons: One hundred years of cinema animation |publisher=[[Indiana University Press]] |year=1994 |isbn=0-253-20937-4 |translator=Anna Taraboletti-Segre |page=[https://archive.org/details/cartoons00gian/page/21 21] |url=https://archive.org/details/cartoons00gian/page/21 }}</ref>
| death_date = {{death date and age|1940|09|28|1880|09|14|mf=yes}}
| death_date = {{death date and age|1940|9|28|1880|9|14}}
| death_place = [[Burbank, California]], U.S.
| death_place = [[Burbank, California]], U.S.
| spouse =
| spouse =
| children =
| children =
| relatives= [[Andy Luckey]] (Cousin)
| relatives= [[Andy Luckey]] (cousin twice removed)
| occupation = [[Animator]], [[film director]], [[comic strip]] [[cartoonist]]
| occupation = [[Animator]], [[film director]], [[comic strip]] [[cartoonist]]
| nationality = American
| years_active = 1911–1940
| years_active = 1911–1940
| website =
| website =
}}
}}
'''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 film|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.<ref name=barrier>{{Cite book|title=Hollywood cartoons : American animation in its golden age|last=Barrier|first=Michael|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1999|pages=14–15|url=https://archive.org/details/hollywoodcartoon00barr/}}</ref>
'''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 film|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.<ref name=barrier>{{Cite book|title=Hollywood cartoons : American animation in its golden age|last=Barrier|first=Michael|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1999|pages=14–15|isbn=978-0-19-503759-3 |url=https://archive.org/details/hollywoodcartoon00barr/}}</ref>


Animator [[Andy Luckey]] is a maternal cousin, twice removed, of Hurd's.
Animator [[Andy Luckey]] is a maternal cousin, twice removed, of Hurd's.


==Career==
==Career==
Hurd, a native of [[Kansas City, Missouri]], later worked for Bray Productions. Inspired by the cartoon character [[Buster Brown]], Hurd invented the cartoon character Bobby Bumps, and his series of cartoons lasted from 1919 to 1925. The series is notable for the first example of a character appearing "out of the inkwell", years before the Fleschier Brothers. Him and Bray developed and patented cel animation in 1914, which eliminated needs to redraw the background. They made a profit off of it with the Bray-Hurd Processing Co. until 1932, when the patent went into the public domain.<ref name=barrier/><ref><ref name=lenburg>{{Cite book |title=Who's who in animated cartoons : an international guide to film & television's award-winning and legendary animators |last=Lenburg |first=Jeff |year=2006 |pages=149-150 |url=https://archive.org/details/whoswhoinanimate0000lenb/}}</ref> <ref>{{Cite web |url=https://loc.gov/loc/lcib/9906/animate.html |title=Innovative Animators: Early American Animation Featured in American Memory |access-date=2022-04-12}}</ref>
Hurd, a native of [[Kansas City, Missouri]], was a cartoonist for The Chicago Journal and [[The New York Herald]]. He then later worked for Bray Productions. Inspired by the cartoon character [[Buster Brown]], Hurd invented the cartoon character Bobby Bumps, and his series of cartoons lasted from 1915 to 1925. The series is notable for the first example of a character appearing "out of the inkwell", years before the [[Fleischer Brothers]]. He and Bray developed and patented cel animation in 1914, which eliminated needs to redraw the background. They made a profit off of it with the Bray-Hurd Processing Co. until 1932, when the patent went into the [[public domain]]. After Bray, he worked for [[The Van Beuren Corporation]], before ultimately making his own studio, making animations from 1922 to 1925.<ref name=barrier/><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://loc.gov/loc/lcib/9906/animate.html |title=Innovative Animators: Early American Animation Featured in American Memory |website=[[Library of Congress]] |access-date=April 12, 2022}}</ref><ref name=lenburg>{{Cite book |title=Who's who in animated cartoons : an international guide to film & television's award-winning and legendary animators |last=Lenburg |first=Jeff |year=2006 |pages=149–150 |publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation |isbn=9781557836717 |url=https://archive.org/details/whoswhoinanimate0000lenb/}}</ref>


Hurd was also a [[comic strip]] artist, illustrating the strips ''[[Trials of Elder Mouse]]'' (1911–1915), ''[[Brick Bodkin's Pa]]'' (1912) and ''[[Susie Sunshine]]'' (1927–1929). He worked later at the [[Ub Iwerks]] studio and the [[Walt Disney Animation Studios|Walt Disney studio]] as a [[storyboard]] artist. Animation historian Giannalberto Bendazzi has called Hurd "probably the best American animator of his time" after Bray and said of his films that they "display an uncommon visual inventiveness, gentle humour and attention to drawing and scenography".<ref name="bendazzi-21"/><ref name=lenburg/>
He worked later at the [[Iwerks studio]] and the [[Walt Disney Animation Studios|Walt Disney studio]] as a [[storyboard]] artist. Animation historian Giannalberto Bendazzi has called Hurd "probably the best American animator of his time" after Bray and said of his films that they "display an uncommon visual inventiveness, gentle humour and attention to drawing and scenography".<ref name="bendazzi-21"/><ref name=lenburg/>


Hurd died on September 28, 1940, in [[Burbank, California]].
Hurd died on September 28, 1940, in his home in [[Burbank, California]].<ref name=lenburg/>


== Gallery ==
== Gallery ==
<gallery mode=packed>
<gallery mode="packed">
Bobby Bumps Starts a Lodge (1916).ogv|''Bobby Bumps Starts a Lodge'' (1916)
Bobby Bumps Starts a Lodge (1916).ogv|''Bobby Bumps Starts a Lodge'' (1916)
Bobby Bumps and the Stork (1916).webm|''Bobby Bumps and the Stork'' (1916)
Bobby Bumps and the Stork (1916).webm|''Bobby Bumps and the Stork'' (1916)
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[[Category:American comic strip cartoonists]]
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[[Category:Film directors from Missouri]]
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[[Category:American animated film directors]]
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Earl Hurd
Hurd in 1917, with Bobby Bumps superimposed
Born(1880-09-14)September 14, 1880
Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.[1]
DiedSeptember 28, 1940(1940-09-28) (aged 60)
Burbank, California, U.S.
Occupation(s)Animator, film director, comic strip cartoonist
Years active1911–1940
RelativesAndy 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.

Career

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Hurd, a native of Kansas City, Missouri, was a cartoonist for The Chicago Journal and The New York Herald. He then later worked for Bray Productions. Inspired by the cartoon character Buster Brown, Hurd invented the cartoon character Bobby Bumps, and his series of cartoons lasted from 1915 to 1925. The series is notable for the first example of a character appearing "out of the inkwell", years before the Fleischer Brothers. He and Bray developed and patented cel animation in 1914, which eliminated needs to redraw the background. They made a profit off of it with the Bray-Hurd Processing Co. until 1932, when the patent went into the public domain. After Bray, he worked for The Van Beuren Corporation, before ultimately making his own studio, making animations from 1922 to 1925.[2][3][4]

He worked later at the Iwerks studio and the Walt Disney studio as a storyboard artist. Animation historian Giannalberto Bendazzi has called Hurd "probably the best American animator of his time" after Bray and said of his films that they "display an uncommon visual inventiveness, gentle humour and attention to drawing and scenography".[1][4]

Hurd died on September 28, 1940, in his home in Burbank, California.[4]

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  • Bobby Bumps Starts a Lodge (1916)
  • Bobby Bumps and the Stork (1916)
  • Bobby Bumps Starts For School (1917)
  • Bobby Bumps' Fourth (1917)
  • Bobby Bumps puts a Beanery on the Bum (1918)
  • Bobby Bumps in Their Master's Voice (1921)

Notes

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  1. ^ a b 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.
  2. ^ a b Barrier, Michael (1999). Hollywood cartoons : American animation in its golden age. Oxford University Press. pp. 14–15. ISBN 978-0-19-503759-3.
  3. ^ "Innovative Animators: Early American Animation Featured in American Memory". Library of Congress. Retrieved April 12, 2022.
  4. ^ a b c Lenburg, Jeff (2006). Who's who in animated cartoons : an international guide to film & television's award-winning and legendary animators. Hal Leonard Corporation. pp. 149–150. ISBN 9781557836717.

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