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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. Original set and costume designs, plans and elevations by Michael Weightman-Smith for the Cape Playhouse, Dennis, Massachusetts production of Shakespeare's Hamlet (1937). Actress Eva Le Gallienne, who directed and starred as Hamlet, collaborated with Weightman-Smith on the set design. less