Bobby Bumps

Bobby Bumps Fly Swatter (1916)

Bobby Bumps was the titular character of a series of silent animated short subjects produced by Bray Productions from 1915-25. Inspired by R. F. Outcault's Buster Brown, Bobby Bumps was a little boy who, accompanied by his dog Fido, regularly found himself in and out of mischief. The cartoons were released by Paramount Pictures as part of its Paramount Magazine short-subjects package.

The series was created by Earl Hurd, who directed and/or animated most of the entries in the series until he left the Bray studios in 1918. The Bobby Bumps cartoons were the first to be produced using the cel animation process. Previously, animated cartoons were produced using paper animation: a new drawing was made for each frame of film. With cel animation, Bray drew his characters on clear sheets of celluloid, which he placed over still backgrounds during the photography process. Cel animation revolutionized the animation industry, and Hurd and his employer J.R. Bray held a patent for the process (and received licensing payments from all studios using the process) until 1932.

Filmography

1915

• Bobby Bumps Gets Pa's Goat
• Bobby Bumps Adventures

1916

• Bobby Bumps Gets a Substitute
• Bobby Bumps Goes Fishing
• Bobby Bumps' Fly Swatter
• Bobby Bumps and the Detective Story
• Bobby Bumps Loses His Pup
• Bobby Bumps and the Stork
• Bobby Bumps Starts a Lodge
• Bobby Bumps Helps Out a Book Agent
• Bobby Bumps Queers a Choir
• Bobby Bumps at the Circus

1917

• Bobby Bumps in the Great Divide
• Bobby Bumps Adopts a Turtle
• Bobby Bumps, Office Boy
• Bobby Bumps Outwits the Dognatcher
• Bobby Bumps Volunteers
• Bobby Bumps, Daylight Camper
• Bobby Bumps, Submarine Chaser
• Bobby Bumps' Fourth
• Bobby Bumps' Amusement Park
• Bobby Bumps, Surf Rider
• Bobby Bumps Starts for School
• Bobby Bumps' World Serious
• Bobby Bumps, Chef
• Bobby Bumps: Fido's Birthday
• Bobby Bumps, Early Shopper
• Bobby Bumps' Tank

1918

• Bobby Bumps' Disappearing Gun
• Bobby Bumps at the Dentist
• Bobby Bumps' Fight
• Bobby Bumps On the Road
• Bobby Bumps Caught in the Jamb
• Bobby Bumps Out West
• Bobby Bumps Films a Fire
• Bobby Bumps Becomes an Ace
• Bobby Bumps on the Doughnut Trail
• Bobby Bumps and the Speckled Death
• Bobby Bumps, Incubator
• Bobby Bumps in Before and After
• Bobby Bumps Puts a Beanery on the Bum

1919

• Bobby Bumps: Last Smoke
• Bobby Bumps' Lucky Day
• Bobby Bumps' Night Out with Some Night Owls
• Bobby Bumps' Pup Gets the Flea-enza
• Bobby Bumps: Eel-ectric Launch
• Bobby Bumps and the Sand Lizard
• Bobby Bumps and the Hypnotic Eye
• Bobby Bumps Throwing the Bull

1920

• Bobby Bumps, the Cave Man
• Bobby Bumps' Orchestra

1921

• Bobby Bumps Checkmated
• Their Master's Voice
• Bobby Bumps Working on an Idea
• Bobby Bumps in Shadow Boxing
• Bobby Bumps in Hunting and Fishing

1922

• Railroading
• Bobby Bumps at School

1923

• The Movie Daredevil
• Their Love Grew Cold

1925

• Bobby Bumps and Company

References

• Lund, Karen (June 1999) "Innovative Animators" The Library of Congress Information Bulletin. Retrieved September 6, 2007.