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Michael Weightman-Smith designs for Hamlet

Title: Michael Weightman-Smith designs for Hamlet, 1937.
Author: Weightman-Smith, Michael.
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Status	Container	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Box 1	Still image	Supervised use	*T-Vim 2013-212 Box 1	Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Box 2	Still image	Supervised use	*T-Vim 2013-212 Box 2	Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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Description

2 boxes (39 drawings) : some col.; 76 x 51 cm. or smaller.

Summary

Original set and costume designs, plans and elevations by Michael Weightman-Smith for the Cape Playhouse, Dennis, Massachusetts production of Shakespeare's Hamlet (1937).

Subjects

Genre/Form

Costume design drawings.
Set design drawings.

Note

Costume sketches are extremely fragile.

Call Number

*T-Vim 2013-212

OCLC

869897377

Author

Weightman-Smith, Michael. Artist

Title

Michael Weightman-Smith designs for Hamlet, 1937.

Biography

Michael Weightman-Smith designed sets and costumes for summer theaters, including the Mohawk Drama Festival in Schenectady, New York, and the Casino Theatre, Newport, Rhode Island. He also designed for the San Francisco Chamber Opera Co. and spent a year in Hollywood, where he worked with Robert Edmond Jones and Cedric Gibbons. In 1944, he was appointed director of television scenic design for NBC's experimental television staff, becoming television's first scenic designer.

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Le Gallienne, Eva, 1899-1991. Artist

Cape Playhouse (Dennis, Mass.) Supporting host

Research Call Number

*T-Vim 2013-212

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