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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.
Occupations
  • Animator
  • Animation director
Years active1930–1994
Employer(s)Walt Disney Animation Studios(1930-1934, 1936–1941)
Iwerks Studio(1934-1936)
MGM Cartoons(1941–1946)
Republic Pictures(1946)
Walter Lantz Productions(1946–1948)
Hanna-Barbera(1959–1980s)

Edward H. Love(May 24, 1910 – May 6, 1996) was an Americananimatorwho worked at various studios during theGolden age of American animation.He is well known for animatingWalt Disney Animations' shortsMickey's TrailerandFantasia.Love won the Golden Award at the 1984 Motion Pictures Screen Cartoonists Awards in 1984.[1]

Career

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Love was born on May 24, 1910, inTremont, Pennsylvania.Love came to Los Angeles in 1930. The effects ofThe Great Depressioncaused Love to search for a job in 1931. He discovered an opening as aDisneycartoonist 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 intoWalt Disney's office, unscheduled, and showed him astop-motionanimation sample of Mickey Mouse playing the violin. Walt Disney was satisfied and hired him to work atDisneyas an animator that same day.[2]Love was initially paid $18 a week and animatedGoofyandPlutomore 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-creatorUb Iwerks' 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 theDisney animators' strike1941. At that time, Love was making $50 a week.

Love, along with several other ex-Disney personnel, were offered jobs at theMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer Cartoon Studio.There he would work inTex Avery'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.[3][self-published source]After he was fired byFred Quimby,[4]Love would briefly work inHugh Harman's animation studio and also help animateBob Clampett's cartoonIt's a Grand Old NagforRepublic Pictures,before settling intoWalter Lantz Productionsin 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

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Love would move to commercial animation in the 1950s for companies such as Paul Fennell's studio, but returned to work full-time atHanna-BarberaProductions in 1959 for their television shows, such asYogi Bear,The FlintstonesandThe Jetsons.[5]He would also serve as an animator forDePatie–Freleng Enterprisesin the 1960s and 70s. Love would continue to work in the industry, in which he worked on shows like theAdventures of Sonic the Hedgehogpilot, up until the 1990s, where he mainly served as an animation director.

Love died ofheart failureon May 6, 1996, inValencia, Californiaat age 85.[6][7]

Selected filmography

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Shorts

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Feature films

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Television shows

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References

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  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.ISBN978-0-520-25619-4.
  3. ^*Ghez, Didier (2011).Walt's People: Talking Disney With the Artists Who Knew Him.Xlibris Corporation.ISBN978-1-4653-6841-6.
  4. ^Yowp (July 31, 2013)."Tralfaz: MGM's Cartoon Mogul".Tralfaz.RetrievedApril 12,2022.
  5. ^"Obituary: Ed Love".The Independent.May 19, 1996.RetrievedDecember 2,2021.
  6. ^Gifford, Denis (May 19, 1996)."Obituary: Ed Love".The Independent.RetrievedNovember 20,2021.
  7. ^Archives, L. A. Times (May 9, 1996)."Edward H. Love; Studio Animator".Los Angeles Times.RetrievedJuly 22,2023.
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