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. A man and a female mannequin sit in a convertible parked on Hollywood Boulevard that has a notice that reads, "This advertisement made possible through courtesy of Bruce & Lowe Signs and Sho Cards, Western Costume Company and Keeno King of Robots." On the side of the car is an advertisement for President Franklin Roosevelt's Birthday Ball, which took place nationwide on January 29, 1939, and raised funds for the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;11 x 15 cm. Photographic prints
Automobiles--California--Los Angeles Men--California--Los Angeles Advertising--California--Los Angeles Streets--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles) Mannequins (Figures) Hollywood Boulevard (Los Angeles, Calif.) Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) Schultheis Collection photographs
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