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Earl Hurd

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

September 14, 1880 (60 years old) Kansas City - Missouri - USA Died September 28, 1940
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