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. Cinecolor, Inc., a color film-processing lab located at 2800 West Olive Avenue in Burbank. Architect Robert V. Derrah, who created the landmark Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Building in Los Angeles, designed this Streamline Moderne style facility. The concrete-reinforced structure is 45,000 sq. ft. in size and cost $125,000 to construct in 1939. As of 2012 FotoKem was still using this building as a film-processing laboratory although much of the architectural detail has been modified. This view of Cinecolor includes the dentil trim along the roofline, porthole windows, glass brick, elegant entrance and central pylon of this building.
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image
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1 photographic print :b&w ;11 x 15 cm. Photographic prints
Cinecolor, Inc Color cinematography--Processing--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County) Cinematography--Processing--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County) Art deco (Architecture)--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County) Motion picture industry--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County) Streets--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County) Olive Avenue (Burbank, Los Angeles County, Calif.) Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.) Schultheis Collection photographs Derrah, Robert V
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