page_title: Earl Hurd
hierarchical_section_title: Earl Hurd
caption_attribution_description: Illustration of a review in The Moving Picture WOrld
context_page_description: Earl Hurd 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.
  Animator Andy Luckey is a maternal cousin, twice removed, of Hurd's.
context_section_description: 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.
  Animator Andy Luckey is a maternal cousin, twice removed, of Hurd's.
caption: Bobby Bumps Goes Fishing (1916)
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