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. In 1919, Jasper Johns, built Hollywood Studios Inc. which consisted of several bungalows and three production stages with steel frames, cloth walls and glass roofs and on a 16.5-acre site in Hollywood. The lot was home to many independent production companies including: 1926 Belasco Productions, Renaud Hoffman Productions, Harold Lloyd Corp. and the Metropolitan Studios; 1929 King Burton; 1932 Educational Talking Pictures Co.; 1938 Major Pictures Corp.; 1939 Cobian Productions Inc., Este Productions Inc.; and 1942 Edward Small Productions Inc. With the advent of television, the FCC barred major studios from producing television creating a new opportunity for independent companies. In the 1950s after the switch to television the lot housed 15 or more different production companies at a time. Stage 2 became home to "I Love Lucy," the first primetime comedy on the West Coast produced before a live audience. In 1980, director Francis Ford Coppola owned the lot for a short time, before it was purchased by the Singer Family and again became home television shows, including "Jeopardy," and "Pee Wee's Playhouse." Today, the lot is home to Hollywood Center Studios, located at 1040 North Las Palmas. The entrance of the Edward Small Productions, Inc. is seen from the street.
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Edward Small Productions, Inc. (Hollywood, Los Angeles, Calif.) Motion picture studios--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles) Signs and signboards--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles) Streets--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles) Palms--California--Los Angeles Las Palmas Avenue (Los Angeles, Calif.) Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) Schultheis Collection photographs
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