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. Hollywood Cemetery (5970-6000 West Santa Monica Boulevard) was founded in 1899. Paramount Studios was built on the back half of the original cemetery and is still in operation today. In 1998 the cemetery changed hands and the name was changed to the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. The cemetery commissioned a replica of Antonio Canova's sculpture "Cupid and Psyche, or loves triumph over death" from Italy in 1929. The life-size marble statue placed in the plaisance before the memorial chapel, was the only copy in the United States at that time and was valued at $25,000. Close up view of this statue of a winged man holding a reclining woman who reaches gracefully around his neck and leans backward for their triumphant kiss at the Hollywood Cemetery.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;11 x 15 cm. Photographic prints
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