Herman Schultheis was many things; engineer, photographer, archealogist, piano prodigy. A German immigrant who came to Los Angeles in 1937 with his New Jersey-born wife, Ethel, Herman embraced Los Angeles as his hometown, shooting over 6,000 photos of the city in the late 1930s. a period when he was briefly employed as an effects engineer for the Walt Disney Studio.<\/p>\n
John Canemaker, author of The Lost Notebook: Herman Schultheis and the Secrets of Walt Disney\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Movie Magic<\/a><\/em> and Christina Rice, Senior Librarian of the LAPL Photo Collection and editor of How We Worked, How We Played \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Herman Schultheis and Los Angeles in the 1930s<\/a><\/em> will read from their respective books and engage in conversation about the work of Herman Schultheis, followed by Q&A and book signing.<\/p>\n