Edward H. Love (May 24, 1910 – May 6, 1996) was an American

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who worked at various studios during the

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. He is well known for contributing to Walt Disney Animation productions such as '' Mickey's Trailer'' and '' Fantasia'', and, later in his career, as an animator for

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at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Cartoon Studio. Love won the Golden Award at the 1984 Motion Pictures Screen Cartoonists Awards in 1984.

Career

Love was born on May 24, 1910, in Tremont, Pennsylvania. Love came to Los Angeles in 1930. The effects of

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caused Love to search for a job in 1931. He discovered an opening as a

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cartoonist in the local newspaper. Love was interested, used a phone book to find an animator, and learned how to animate in four months. Besides drawings as a child, his entire animation experience consisted of only those four months of learning. Love walked into

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's office, unscheduled, and showed him a

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animation sample of Mickey Mouse playing the violin. Walt Disney was satisfied and hired him to work at

as an animator that same day. Love was initially paid $18 a week and animated

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and

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more frequently than other characters. Disney gave their animators a lot of freedom by giving them the option if they want to add additional frames. Love worked with the effects manager but not with other animators. Love would briefly leave the studio to work at Mickey Mouse co-creator

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' studio. He would come back to Disney in 1936 after the studio folded due to lack of funding. Love left the studio for good after participating in the Disney animators' strike 1941. At that time, Love was making $50 a week. Love, along with several other ex-Disney personnel, were offered jobs at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Cartoon Studio. There he would work in

's unit until 1946. At MGM, Love would animate as much as 5,600 of the 8,800 frames for a short film, which is about 4 out of 6 minutes of animation. He and other animators were limited to only 480 frames a week, a limitation which allowed MGM to provide openings for new animators. It also restricted the present animators from being paid more, regardless of whether or not they produced more frames. After he was fired by Fred Quimby, Love would briefly work in Hugh Harman's animation studio and also help animate

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's cartoon ''It's a Grand Old Nag'' for Republic Pictures, before settling into Walter Lantz Productions in 1947. However, the state of Lantz's studio was rapidly decreasing because Lantz did not have funds for the studio, forcing him to close it down in 1949. Love would not return following the studio's reopening.

Later career and death

Love would move to commercial animation in the 1950s for companies such as Paul Fennell's studio, but returned to work full-time at

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Productions in 1959 for their television shows, such as '' Yogi Bear'', ''

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'' and '' The Jetsons''. He would also serve as an animator for DePatie–Freleng Enterprises in the 1960s and 70s. Love would continue to work in the industry, in which he worked on shows like the '' Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog'' pilot, up until the 1990s, where he mainly served as an animation director. Love died of

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on May 6, 1996, in Valencia, California at age 85.

Selected filmography

Shorts

* Mickey's Amateurs (1937) * Lonesome Ghosts (1937) * Mickey's Trailer (1938) * The Autograph Hound (1939) * Officer Duck (1939) * Billposters (1940) *

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(1941) * Symphony Hour (1942) * Blitz Wolf (1942) * The Early Bird Dood It! (1942) * Dumb-Hounded (1943) * Red Hot Riding Hood (1943) * What's Buzzin' Buzzard (1943) * Screwball Squirrel (1944) * Happy-Go-Nutty (1944) * Big Heel-Watha (1944) * The Screwy Truant (1945) * Jerky Turkey (1945) * The Shooting of Dan McGoo (1945) * Wild and Wolfy (1945) * Swing Shift Cinderella (1945) * Lonesome Lenny (1946) * The Hick Chick (1946) * Northwest Hounded Police (1946) * Hound Hunters (1947) * Red Hot Rangers (1947) * It's a Grand Old Nag (As Edward Love, 1947) * Woody the Giant Killer (1947) * Banquet Busters (1948) * Wacky-Bye Baby (1948) * Wet Blanket Policy (1948) * Pixie Picnic (1948) * Playful Pelican (1948) * Wild and Woody! (1948) * Scrappy Birthday (1949) * Drooler's Delight (1949)

Feature films

* Fantasia (1940) (

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sequence) * Jetsons: The Movie (1990)

Television shows

(1960) * Yogi Bear (1961) * Scooby Doo, Where Are You? (1969) * The Smurfs (1981) * Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog (pilot episode, 1992)

References

External links

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The Evolution of Jazz, with Ed Love
1992-11-01, In Black America; KUT Radio, American Archive of Public Broadcasting ( WGBH and the Library of Congress) {{DEFAULTSORT:Love, Ed 1910 births 1996 deaths People from Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania Animators from Pennsylvania Hanna-Barbera people Walt Disney Animation Studios people Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio people Walter Lantz Productions people