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. The Auditorium was originally constructed in 1924. It was formally dedicated at commencement exercises on June 25, 1924 and named the Memorial Auditorium to honor the Hollywood High School graduates who died in World War I. The Auditorium is the second of only two buildings on campus that survived the Long Beach Earthquake of 1933. The original building was a Beaux Arts design that included a flat roof, masonry walls, and a symmetrical fac¸ade. In 1953 plans for remodeling the auditorium to make it more earthquake resistant were being studied by the school, and the structural engineering firm of Murray Erick Associates was hired to implement seismic upgrades. At the same time, the architectural firm of Marston & Weston was commissioned to modernize the fac¸ade and make other improvements. Construction started in the fall of 1954 and was completed in the spring of 1956. The original Beaux Arts fac¸ade was altered to be Mid-Century Modern in style. The fac¸ade was refinished in concrete and gunnite.; In 1937 Highland Avenue was widened from Cahuenga Boulevard to Melrose Avenue. The dedication ceremony took place on October 13th at Hollywood High School. Edward Brown of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce was in charge of the program and Mayor Frank Shaw, Sheriff Eugene Biscailuz and actress Sheila Darcy were among the speakers. A crowd sits on the steps and pedestals to watch a dedication taking place in front of the Beaux Arts style Hollywood High school Memorial Auditorium located on the Southeast corner of Hawthorne and Highland. Actress Sheila Darcy is speaking in a cordoned off area and a large megaphone projects the speeches. The El Capitan Theater is visible on the right.
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image
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1 photographic print :b&w ;11 x 15 cm. Photographic prints
Darcy, Sheila,--1914-2004 Hollywood High School (Hollywood, Los Angeles, Calif.) El Capitan Theatre (Hollywood, Calif.) Dedications--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles) Civic improvement--California--Los Angeles High schools--California--Los Angeles Schools--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles) High school students--California--Los Angeles Eclecticism in architecture--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles) Crowds--California--Los Angeles Motion picture theaters--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles) Highland Avenue (Los Angeles, Calif.) Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) Schultheis Collection photographs
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