Franz Bachelin


Franz Bachelin was a German art director. In 1946, he and Hans Dreier did the art direction for The Searching Wind. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Journey to the Center of the Earth.
Franz Bachelin's last credited work as a cinema art director was for part two of the US television series episode "The Menagerie |The Menagerie". Bachelin originally assumed responsibility for art direction for the originally-planned Star Trek pilot episode "The Cage |The Cage" after the first art director for the series pilot, Pato Guzman left the production company to repatriate to his native Chile. This original series pilot was turned down by the National Broadcasting Company, and was only released in 1988 as a filler episode in Paramount Television's television series during a writers' strike. Bachelin did not receive screen credit for his work on "The Cage".

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