Ex Steward Harry Mishkin
Seaman 2:c Lee A. Mishkin
Los Angeles
May 19, 1945
(Photo via Flickr)
The Mishkins were father and son....Harry would be 45 here, Lee was 18.
It appears they resided at 2620 Farwell Ave. in Silverlake in '45, that house is not a match for the above photo.....however, directly across the street is this building...
The slope and window could be a match, still hard to say this was the photo location....
In the 1940 census the family was at 3906 De Longpre Ave....
Harry Miskin was born in Montreal, he became a naturalized US citizen in 1941....
Harry's draft registration card, dated July 14 1942, tells us he was in the wholesale woolens trade with his brother Jack, the business located at 819 Santee St....
In the 1942 CD we learn Mrs. Belle Mishkin was a stenographer for the Cal. Dept. of Education ....
Harry died in 1954 and was buried at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery....
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Lee Mishkin married in 1949, here he lists "artist" as his occupation....
Note the whimsical construction of the dots over the "i's" in Mishkin in the marriage certificate....that affectation also appears in a collection of humorous sketches he produced for the Daily Bruin....
There are a few Lee Mishkin artworks available online, oil paintings dated 1940's....the bulk of his career was in film/television animation....from grokipedia.com:
Lee Mishkin (February 5, 1927 – June 19, 2001) was an American animator, director, and writer renowned for his pioneering work in television and film animation spanning over five decades. Born in Oakland, California, Mishkin began his career in 1949 with the groundbreaking TV series Crusader Rabbit, the first animated program created specifically for television, and went on to contribute to iconic projects including theatrical shorts like Casper the Friendly Ghost and Popeye in the 1950s and 1960s. His most celebrated achievement was directing the 1970 short film Is It Always Right to Be Right?, which earned him an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Subject.
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Mishkin expanded his portfolio with television animation, including writing for series like Super President (1967) and directing the animated opening sequence for the live-action Batman TV series (1966). He also worked on notable specials such as Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol (1962) and the hybrid live-action/animated feature The Incredible Mr. Limpet (1964), starring Don Knotts.[2] In the 1980s, Mishkin directed innovative projects like Butterfly Ball (1974), recognized as the first animated rock video and winner of the British Grierson Award, as well as co-writing and directing the CBS special Faeries (1981), which garnered two Emmy nominations.
In his later years, Mishkin contributed to films such as Heavy Metal (1981), where he co-directed a segment, and Jetsons: The Movie (1990) as an animator, while also serving as an animation timer for episodes of The Simpsons (1991). He spent seven years in Vancouver developing the classical animation curriculum at VanArts, from which he retired shortly before his death from heart failure in Los Angeles at age 74. Mishkin's legacy endures through a scholarship fund at VanArts established in his honor to support student film production.
Lee Mishkin demonstrating the art of animation in August 1985 at the Sherman Oaks Galleria....
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