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.; 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. CBS Columbia Square, located at 6121 Sunset Boulevard, at the corner of El Centro Avenue in Hollywood, oppened in 1938 as the home to radio stations KNX 1070 and KCBS 83FM, as well as CBS Channel 2 television station. This complex reflects the importance of radio and television broadcasting in Los Angeles and is characteristic of the International Style of architecture. Designed by William Lescaze, a renowned Modernist architect, the buildings are flat-roofed with smooth, unornamented concrete wall surfaces. Having served as the West Coast headquarters of CBS and as television and recording studios, the buildings hosted a number of notable performers, from Jack Benny to Bing Crosby, before closing in 2007. In 2009 the complex became City of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #947. The signature ribbon windows are visible through the scaffolding in this construction shot of the CBS Columbia Square Studios. Machinery barrels and scattered wood surround a construction worker surveying the work.
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1 photographic print :b&w ;15 x 11 cm. Photographic prints
KNX (Radio station : Los Angeles, Calif.) KCBS-TV (Television station : Los Angeles, Calif.) CBS Columbia Square (Los Angeles, Calif.) Columbia Broadcasting System, inc Broadcasting studios--California--Los Angeles Television stations--California--Los Angeles Radio stations--California--Los Angeles Building construction--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles) Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments Sunset Boulevard (Los Angeles, Calif.) Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) Schultheis Collection photographs Lescaze, William,1896-1969
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