Franz Bachelin

{{short description|German art director}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2021}}

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| name = Franz Bachelin

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1895|11|10|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Sinsheim, Grand Duchy of Baden, German Empire (now Baden-Württemberg, Germany)

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1980|5|26|1895|11|10|df=yes}}

| death_place = Pacific Palisades, California, U.S.

| occupation = Art director

| yearsactive = 1937–1966

| children = Inez Storer

}}

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.{{Cite book| last=Higham | first =Charles | last2=Greenberg | first2=Joel | year = 1968 | title=Hollywood in the Forties | page=75 | publisher=A. Zwemmer Limited | location=London | isbn=0-302-00477-7}} He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Journey to the Center of the Earth.{{Cite web|url=http://theoscarsite.com/whoswho4/bachelin_f.htm |title=Franz Bachelin |accessdate=28 January 2011|work=theoscarsite.com}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0045414/awards |title=IMDb.com: Franz Bachelin - Awards |accessdate=23 December 2008|work=IMDb.com}}

Bachelin's last credited work as a cinema art director was for part two of the US television series Star Trek episode "The Menagerie".{{cite web | url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0045414/#art_director | title=IMDB: "Franz Bachelin (art director)" | publisher=The Internet Movie Data Base | accessdate=27 November 2014}} 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.{{cite book | title=The Making of Star Trek | url=https://archive.org/details/makingofstartrek00whit | url-access=registration | publisher=Ballantine Books |author1=Roddenberry, Gene |author2=Whitfield, Stephen | year=1968 | location=New York | pages=[https://archive.org/details/makingofstartrek00whit/page/101 101]}} 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".{{cite web | url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059753/combined | title=IMDB: "Star Trek" The Cage (1986) | accessdate=28 November 2014}}