Title supplied by cataloger.; Herman J. Schultheis was born in Aachen, Germany in 1900, and immigrated to the United States in the mid-1920s after obtaining a Ph.D. in mechanical and electrical engineering. He married Ethel Wisloh in 1936, and the pair moved to Los Angeles the following year. He worked in the film industry from the late 1930s to the mid-1940s, most notably on the animated features Fantasia and Pinocchio. His detailed notebook, documenting the special effects for Fantasia, is the subject of a 14-minute short-subject included on the film's DVD. In 1949, he started employment with Librascope as a patent engineer. Schultheis was an avid amateur photographer who traveled the world with his cameras. It was on one of these photographic exhibitions in 1955 that he disappeared in the jungles of Guatemala. His remains were discovered 18 months later. The digitized portion of this collection represents the images Schultheis took of Los Angeles and its surrounding communities after he relocated to the area in 1937. Architects Gogerty & Weyl designed the 1928 Mountain States Life Building/Yucca Vine Tower (6305 Yucca Street) in the Art Deco style. Today this building is home to Hollywood U, a union of almost 20 music and movie industry post-secondary institutions including among others: American Musical and Dramatic Academy, the Hollywood Film & Acting Academy, Joe Blasco Makeup Artist Training Center, the Los Angeles Recording School, Musicians Institute, the Second City Training Center and the Stella Adler Studio. This view looking east on Yucca towards Cahuenga captures businesses including a Richfield gas station on the corner of Yucca and Cahuenga (left, now a market) and the Yucca Vine Tower (tall building in the distance).
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1 photographic print :b&w ;15 x 11 cm. Photographic prints
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