Sunday, September 28, 2008

Earl Hurd

Today is the anniversary of the death in 1940 of cel animation patent-holder Earl Hurd. The Bobby Bumps cartoons were the first to be produced using the cel animation process.

Later he worked for Walt Disney and is credited as a writer for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and as a character designer on the Dance of the Hours segment of Fantasia.

Bobby Bumps Starts a Lodge (1916):

2 comments:

  1. Anonymous8:32 AM

    I _really_ like the old animations. thanks for sharing some history!

    --A Pal

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  2. glad you liked it, Pal. :)

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