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Known For

Earl Hurd is known for:

  • Bobby Bumps Starts for School
    Mischievous schoolboy Bobby disobeys his teacher and swings on a dangerous giant school bell.
  • Bobby Bumps Starts a Lodge
    Bobby Bumps invited his black neighbor to join his "lodge." But first he has to be initiated. The neighbor cleverly avoids getting rammed in the behind by Bobby's goat, but as he's running away, finds himself in a precarious position with a wild bear. Bobby saved his friend, but quickly he finds himself in an even worse situation with the bear and needs the friend to return the favor. They both agree to be initiated together, and the final joke is on Bobby's poor goat.
  • At the Dentist
    Based on the Buster Brown comic by R.F. Outcault.

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Biography

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. -Wikipedia Entry