Left to right, Ethel Schulteis, Laguna Beach resident Helena Morton, and Herman Schulteis at Mrs. Morton Laguna residence. Herman took well over 6,000 photographs and what Ive been posting are digitized pics from the LAPL. Theres a book released last year: How We Worked, How We Played/Los Angeles and 1930s, Herman Schulteis 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 films 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.
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