Franz Bachelin

German art director

Franz Bachelin
Born	(1895-11-10)10 November 1895 Sinsheim, Grand Duchy of Baden, German Empire (now Baden-Württemberg, Germany)
Died	26 May 1980(1980-05-26) (aged 84) Pacific Palisades, California, U.S.
Occupation	Art director
Years active	1937–1966

Franz Bachelin (10 November 1895 – 26 May 1980) was a German art director. In 1946, he and Hans Dreier did the art direction for The Searching Wind.^[1] He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Journey to the Center of the Earth.^[2]^[3]

Bachelin's last credited work as a cinema art director was for part two of the US television series Star Trek episode "The Menagerie".^[4] Bachelin originally assumed responsibility for art direction for the originally-planned Star Trek pilot episode "The Cage" after the first art director for the series pilot, Pato Guzman, left the production company to repatriate to his native Chile.^[5] This original series pilot was turned down by the National Broadcasting Company (the first television network to broadcast Star Trek), and was only released in 1988 as a filler episode in Paramount Television's Star Trek: The Next Generation television series during a writers' strike. Bachelin did not receive screen credit for his work on "The Cage".^[6]

Selected filmography

The Hitler Gang, Paramount Pictures (1944)
The Searching Wind (1946)
Stalag 17 (1953)
The Naked Jungle (1954)
War and Peace, Paramount Pictures & Ponti-deLaurentitis (1955)
Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)
Star Trek, Desilu (1964)
Batman, Fox (1966)

References

^ Higham, Charles; Greenberg, Joel (1968). Hollywood in the Forties. London: A. Zwemmer Limited. p. 75. ISBN 0-302-00477-7.
^ "Franz Bachelin". theoscarsite.com. Retrieved 28 January 2011.
^ "IMDb.com: Franz Bachelin - Awards". IMDb.com. Retrieved 23 December 2008.
^ "IMDB: "Franz Bachelin (art director)"". The Internet Movie Data Base. Retrieved 27 November 2014.
^ Roddenberry, Gene; Whitfield, Stephen (1968). The Making of Star Trek. New York: Ballantine Books. pp. 101.
^ "IMDB: "Star Trek" The Cage (1986)". Retrieved 28 November 2014.