Ed Love

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Ed Love
Born
Edward H. Love

(1910-05-24)May 24, 1910
Tremont, Pennsylvania, U.S.
DiedMay 6, 1996(1996-05-06) (aged 85)
Valencia, California, U.S.
Occupation
  • Animator
  • Animation director
Years active1930–1994
EmployerWalt Disney Animation Studios (1930–1941)
MGM Cartoons (1941–1946)
Walter Lantz Productions (1946–1948)
Hanna-Barbera (1959-1980s)

Edward H. Love (May 24, 1910 – May 6, 1996) was an American animator who worked at various studios during the Golden age of American animation. He is well known for animating Walt Disney Animations' shorts Mickey's Trailer and Fantasia. Love won the Golden Award at the 1984 Motion Pictures Screen Cartoonists Awards in 1984.[1]

Career[]

Love was born on May 24, 1910, in Tremont, Pennsylvania. Love came to Los Angeles in 1930. The effects from The Great Depression caused Love to search for a job in 1931. He discovered an opening as a Disney cartoonist in the local newspaper. Love was interested, used a phone book to find an animator, and learned how to animate in the span of four months. Besides drawings as a child, his entire animation experience consisted of only those four months of learning. Love walked into Walt Disney's office, unscheduled, and showed him a stop motion animation sample of Mickey Mouse playing the violin. Walt Disney was satisfied and hired him to work at Disney as an animator that same day.[2] Love was initially paid $18 a week and animated Goofy and Pluto 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 manage but not with other animators. Love left the studio after participating in the Disney animators' strike in 1941. At that time, Love was making $50 a week.

Love, along with other ex-Disney personnel, were offered jobs at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Cartoon Studio. There he would work in Tex Avery's unit until 1946. At MGM, Love would animate as much as 5,600 out of the total 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 whether or not they produce more frames.[3][self-published source] Following his departure from MGM, Love worked at Walter Lantz Productions where he focused on animating Woody Woodpecker. In 1948 however, the state of Lantz' 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 leave the animation industry in the 1950s, but returned to work at Hanna-Barbera Productions in 1959 for their television shows, such as Yogi Bear, The Flintstones and The Jetsons.[4] He would also serve as an animator for DePatie–Freleng Enterprises in the 1960s and 70s. Love would continue to work in the industry up until the 1990s, where he mainly served as an animation director.

Love died on May 6, 1996, in Valencia, California at age 85.[5]

Selected filmography[]

Shorts[]

Television shows[]

References[]

  1. ^ Ed Love – Awards. Internet Movie Database.
  2. ^ Barrier, Michael (2008). The Animated Man : A Life of Walt Disney (1st pbk. print. ed.). Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 84. ISBN 978-0-520-25619-4.
  3. ^ *Ghez, Didier (2011). Walt's People: Talking Disney With the Artists Who Knew Him. Xlibris Corporation. ISBN 978-1-4653-6841-6.
  4. ^ "Obituary: Ed Love". The Independent. May 19, 1996. Retrieved December 2, 2021.
  5. ^ Gifford, Denis (May 19, 1996). "Obituary: Ed Love". The Independent. Retrieved November 20, 2021.

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