Do you know this MGM movie artist?

[RedHotRidinHood]

I am going to be selling these on eBay for a friend soon, but I need some help identifying the artist, if possible. I know that the pictures came from a promotional book that MGM sent out to movie theatres, and the pages were taken out. They are perfect for framing. The neat thing about the art is that the artist used real materials for some of the picture-if you look close you can see! They are from the early 40s, near as I can tell. Also, it seems to me that there is a particular name for this medium-if so, does anyone know? I thought some of you would get a kick out of seeing these, even if you didn't know who it may be.
This is only a small sample of what I have-there are ALOT of them! Thanks for any help!

This is the flip side of the last two pages:

 

[Doctor Strange]

Those are beautiful! They look a bit like the work of noted cartoon caricaturist T. Hee, who mostly worked in animation at Warners and Disney in those days. Try looking him up on Wiki...

 

[CharlieH.]

Eeep!

That's Jacques Kapralik! His medium was a combination of illustrations and scale models called 3-D Paper Structure. Absolutely brilliant stuff, and not exactly easy to come by, at least on the internet. See a few more examples here.

 

[dhermann1]

They look like photographed collages. Wow! You tend to think of everything of that era as black and white, it's so cool to see such VIVID color images!
EDIT: Having looked at the Kapralik link, it makes me wonder if he dismantled some of his creations once they had been photographed, to recycle the little props. Thus making the originals rare or non-existent.

 

[RedHotRidinHood]

THANK YOU!!!!!

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!! I knew if I posted them here, someone would know. They are so striking and gorgeous, it is going to be hard to give them up, even if they aren't mine to begin with!

One thing I do love about this place is that the brain trust and knowledge base is HUGE!! You guys rock!

 

[CharlieH.]

You're welcome! And thanks to you too for posting these nifty pictures, I almost went crackers when I first saw them. It only took those few examples I linked to to make me a fan of this guy. Marvelous stuff.

 

[The Wolf]

Thanks for sharing those ads. That is beautifull work!
I especially like the "Love Crazy" ad.

Sincerely,
The Wolf