Ethel Schultheis at home

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Ethel Schultheis at home

Schultheis, Herman

[ca. 193-]

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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.

View shows a candid shot Ethel Schultheis. She appears to be knitting by natural sunlight, which is streaming in through three large windows at their Los Feliz home at 2806 St. George Street.

LAPL 00102243

Women--California--Los Angeles

Knitting--California--Los Angeles

Dwellings--California--Los Feliz (Los Angeles)

Apartments--California--Los Feliz (Los Angeles)

Living rooms--California--Los Feliz (Los Angeles)

Interiors--California--Los Feliz (Los Angeles)

Los Feliz (Los Angeles, Calif.)

Schultheis Collection photographs

California Digital Library

English

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