Alan Kimmel
- Art Department
- Production Designer
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Production Designer
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- TriviaAlan Kimmel (b: 04/09/1938 - d: 06/02/2017; age 79), a stage and television scenic designer originally was hired as a staff design-member of the New York City ABC Television Network and Local Production Services Division Group's by art the art department's manager Jack Kelly. Alan Kimmel's varied theatrical assignments included performing as a production designer; as an art director; as a scenic designer; as a drafts-person; and as a set decorator. The ABC New York Network Union Television contract on-air credit agreement with the New York United Scenic Artist's Union USA IATSE 829 - the studio's ABC scenic design employees (all #829 union members) received the on-screen credit "Scenic Designer" - which was the negotiated television network contract agreement. The "Art Director" on screen-credit was negotiated by the east coast New York television Graphic Artist Union as a jurisdictional screen credit agreement, which included the east coast networks, and included the ABC electronic television network-studio. Only when a scenic designer was not employed as a network-studio art department "staff" member, could the scenic-designer title-credit change. When the designer was employed by an independently contracted production-producing company, could the screen credit be re-designated, the scenic-designer position on-air credit be awarded as "Art Director." The West Coast ADGMP/TV IATSE 876 theatrical, film and television (scenic) set design branch, The Society of Motion Picture and Television Art Directors Guild IATSE # 876 established in 1939, had negotiated the on-screen credit - "Art Director" and "Production Design by" when the Guild was formed in the 1939. The on-screen feature film and television credit - "Production Design By" was only granted to a feature film or to a television "Producer" to use as an on-screen credit after approval by a special Art Director's Guild Board "Screen Credit" Committee. The east coast producers used the "Production Design By" on-screen credit for an art director assigned their property/production staff because the West Coast #876 (now #800) Art Director's Guild did not have jurisdiction over the Eastern seaboard-coastal area. The first time a "Production Design By" credit appeared and created was when William Cameron Menzies negotiated with David O. Selznick to be designated as the Production Designer, not the art director, when Selznick asked Menzies to design-art direct his 1939 feature film "Gone With The Wind." Menzies' film career by 1937 had moved into film directing when Selznick implored Menzies to return to film designing and join his production's film creative team for preparation of his major 1938 filmed Civil War epic.
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