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    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...
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  • Seven Dwarfs by Ted Sears Richard Creedon Otto Englander Dick Rickard Earl Hurd Merrill De Maris Dorothy Ann Blank Webb Smith Snow White by the Brothers...
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  • cost-effectively. The invention of the technique is generally attributed to Earl Hurd, who patented the process in 1914. The outline of the images are drawn...
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    The Police Dog from the beginning of the company. The year 1915 brought Earl Hurd and Paul Terry; the former became J. R. Bray's business partner and directed...
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    industry in the US. Successful producer John Randolph Bray and animator Earl Hurd, patented the cel animation process that dominated the animation industry...
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  • John Bray Studios, which revolutionized the way animation was created. Earl Hurd, one of Bray's employees, patented the cel technique. This involved animating...
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  • Dorothy Ann Blank, Richard Creedon, Merrill De Maris, Otto Englander, Earl Hurd, Dick Rickard, Ted Sears & Webb Smith "Snow White" by Brothers Grimm Walt...
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    episodes were released by Educational Pictures. The series was created by Earl Hurd, who directed and/or animated most of the films. The Bobby Bumps cartoons...
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  • color animated cartoon made in the United States. It was produced by Earl Hurd for Bray Pictures using the Brewster Color film process, and was released...
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  • Ferguson Character designs: Martin Provensen, James Bodrero, Duke Russell & Earl Hurd Art direction: Kendall O'Connor, Harold Doughty & Ernest Nordli Background...
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  • Luckey (1934–2018) and a maternal cousin, twice removed, of Animator Earl Hurd (1880–1940) who co-created (with J.R. Bray) and patented the process for...
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  • Sharpsteen Story by Ted Sears Richard Creedon Otto Englander Dick Rickard Earl Hurd Merrill De Maris Dorothy Ann Blank Webb Smith Based on "Snow White" by...
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    studio, Bray's studio employee, Earl Hurd, came up with patents designed for mass-producing the output for the studio. As Hurd did not file for these patents...
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    in 1919, he returned to Sullivan's studio, which was hired by director Earl Hurd of Paramount Screen Magazine for a cartoon short that would accompany...
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    Technologies and TV Paint. The cel animation process was invented by Earl Hurd and John Bray in 1915. The cel is an important innovation to traditional...
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  • John Bray Studios, which revolutionized the way animation was created. Earl Hurd, one of Bray's employees patented the cel technique. This involved animating...
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  • Chasers. This is also evidenced in such famed cartoonists as J. R. Bray, Earl Hurd and Pat Sullivan (who is famous for his creation of Felix the Cat). Then...
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  • Seven Dwarfs by Ted Sears Richard Creedon Otto Englander Dick Rickard Earl Hurd Merrill De Maris Dorothy Ann Blank Webb Smith Productions 1969 The Muny...
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  • Dwarfs (re-release) Walt Disney Pictures David Hand (director); Ted Sears, Earl Hurd, Merrill De Maris, Richard Creedon, Otto Englander, Dick Rickard, Dorothy...
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    short film (approx. 12 mins) of Coué teaching his method, directed by Earl Hurd (1884-1940), and released in the USA by Educational Films, Inc. on 18...
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    again everyone was doing that. John Randolph Bray, in collaboration with Earl Hurd, developed the patents that nearly made them the Motion Picture Patents...
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  • (directors); Ted Sears, Richard Creedon, Otto Englander, Dick Rickard, Earl Hurd, Merrill De Maris, Dorothy Ann Blank, Webb Smith (screenplay); Adriana...
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  • (directors); Ted Sears, Richard Creedon, Otto Englander, Dick Rickard, Earl Hurd, Merrill De Maris, Dorothy Ann Blank, Webb Smith (screenplay); Adriana...
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  • Dopey in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs), dies at age 57. September 28: Earl Hurd, American animator, film director and comics artist (Bobby Bumps, worked...
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    home. It was the first film McCay made using cels, a technology animator Earl Hurd had patented in 1914; it saved work by allowing dynamic drawings to be...
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    Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook, GCSI, PC (1 October 1814 – 30 October 1906) was a prominent British Conservative politician. He held cabinet...
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    Thorpe (1997), p. 59 Dutton, p. 9 Young, p. 46 Hurd, Douglas "Home, Alexander Frederick Douglas-, fourteenth earl of Home and Baron Home of the Hirsel (1903–1995)"...
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  • Marguerite Clark, stage and silent film actress (born 1883) September 28 – Earl Hurd, animator, film director and comics artist (born 1880) October 5 – Ballington...
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    Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, KG, PC, DL, JP, FRS (21 December 1804 – 19 April 1881) was a British statesman, Conservative politician and...
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  • and comics artist (erotic comics), dies at age 47 or 51. September 28: Earl Hurd, American animator and comics artist (Trials of Elder Mouse, Brick Bodkin's...
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