Earl Hurd

Fredrick 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.
American Animator Andy Luckey is a maternal cousin, twice removed, of Hurd's.
==Bobby Bumps==
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. 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 humor, and attention to drawing and scenography".
Hurd died on September 28, 1940, 14 days after his 60th birthday.
==Filmography==
Year	Film 	Position
1934	Servants' Entrance 	animator - uncredited
1934	Two-Gun Mickey 	animator - uncredited
1936	Elmer Elephant 	writer - uncredited
1936	Mickey's Rival 	story - uncredited
1936	Mother Pluto 	writer - uncredited
1937	Pluto's Quin-puplets 	writer - uncredited
1937	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs	story adaptation
1940	Fantasia 	character designer - segment "Dance of the Hours" (posthumous release)
1940	Pantry Pirate 	writer (posthumous release)
1941	Pluto's Playmate 	writer - uncredited (posthumous release)
1942	All Together 	character designer - uncredited (posthumous release)
==See also==
*"Earl Hurd". Lambiek Comiclopedia. Retrieved September 6, 2007.
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