Bobby Bumps was the titular character of a series of silent

Silent film

A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue. In silent films for entertainment the dialogue is transmitted through muted gestures, pantomime and title cards...

 animated short subjects produced by Bray Productions

Bray Productions

Bray Productions was the dominant animation studio based in the United States in the years before World War I.- History :The studio was founded in December 1914 by J. R. Bray, perhaps the first studio entirely devoted to animation, and series animation at that...

 from 1915-25. Inspired by R. F. Outcault's Buster Brown

Buster Brown

Buster Brown was a comic strip character created in 1902 by Richard Felton Outcault who was known for his association with the Brown Shoe Company. This mischievous young boy was loosely based on a boy near Outcault's home in Flushing, New York...

, Bobby Bumps was a little boy who, accompanied by his dog

Dog

The domestic dog is a domesticated form of the gray wolf, a member of the Canidae family of the order Carnivora. The term is used for both feral and pet varieties. The dog may have been the first animal to be domesticated, and has been the most widely kept working, hunting, and companion animal in...

 Fido, regularly found himself in and out of mischief. The cartoons were released by Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American film production and distribution company, located at 5555 Melrose Avenue in Hollywood. Founded in 1912 and currently owned by media conglomerate Viacom, it is America's oldest existing film studio; it is also the last major film studio still...

 as part of its Paramount Magazine short-subjects package.

The series was created by Earl Hurd

Earl Hurd

Earl Hurd was a pioneering American animator and film director. He is noted for creating and producing the silent Bobby Bumps animated short subject series for early animation producer J.R. Bray's Bray Productions...

, 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

Celluloid

Celluloid is the name of a class of compounds created from nitrocellulose and camphor, plus dyes and other agents. Generally regarded to be the first thermoplastic, it was first created as Parkesine in 1862 and as Xylonite in 1869, before being registered as Celluloid in 1870. Celluloid is...

, 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.

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

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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

1921

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