Earl Hurd
Earl Hurd | |
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| Born | September 14, 1880 |
| Died | Error: Death date (first date) must be later in time than the birth date (second date) Burbank, California, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation(s) | Animator, film director, comic strip cartoonist |
| Years active | 1933–2001 |
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.
Booby Bumps
Bray Production
Hurd, a native of Kansas, later worked for Paul Terry's Terrytoons studio before starting his own Earl Hurd Productions studio in 1923.
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 studio as a storyboard artist. He died on September 28, 1940, in Burbank, California.
References
- ^ 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.
- "Earl Hurd". Lambiek Comiclopedia. Retrieved September 6, 2007.
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