Marshall College
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| Located | Bedford, Connecticut, USA |
Marshall College is a college in Bedford, Connecticut. It was one of the schools where Indiana Jones taught as a professor of archaeology. Marcus Brody served as Dean of Students and was later succeeded by Charles Stanforth. Brody also curator of the museum here and paid for many of the minor artifacts that Jones retrieved on his expeditions.
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[edit] History
Indiana Jones was teaching at Marshall College as early as 1925[1], though by 1933, he had switched to Princeton University[1]. By 1935, he had returned to Marshall College. In 1936, his performance as a professor for archaeology was evaluated by Charles Kennedy.
In 1936, Jones was teaching Archaeology 101, when the college received some US government visitors: Eaton and Musgrove. Meeting in a large classroom, they enlisted Jones' help in tracking down the whereabouts of Abner Ravenwood, in a search to prevent the Nazis from finding the Ark of the Covenant.
By 1938, Jones had left Marshall College for Barnett College, but by the 1950s, had returned to the Archaeology Department at Marshall.
In 1957, after the FBI considered Professor Jones a person of interest and suspected him of being a Communist, the college administration was pressured to fire him. Dean Stanforth stood up for Jones, and managed to secure for him a more graceful exit, but at the cost of his own resignation. After being terminated, Jones was set to leave town, but met Mutt Williams.
When Soviet agents chased Jones and Williams through the town, Williams drove his motorcycle through the campus to shake off the cars pursuing them. During the chase, they rode through the campus quad where an anti-Communist rally was being held. One of the cars chasing them got hit by protest signs caricaturing Communist leaders like Nikita Khrushchev, and blinded, crashed into a statue of the late Marcus Brody. The statue's head broke off, landing in the lap of the driver.
To avoid the second car, Williams drove up the steps into the main college library, where he skidded to stop, scaring students and sliding under tables. One student was not easily perturbed by the arrival of the two, and simply asked Professor Jones for guidance with his assignment. Jones' response was to get out of the library and go do field work. The pursuing car, unable to enter the library, fled the scene when police sirens were heard.
Later that year, Jones' role in stopping the Soviet plot to find the Crystal Skull of Akator cleared his reputation, and the college reinstated him and Stanforth, with Jones becoming an associate dean. While Jones' name and new title were being painted on his office door, Stanforth rushed through the building to his own office, to retrieve a Book of Common Prayer, which was needed at the wedding of Indiana Jones and Marion Ravenwood.
[edit] Faculty and Students of Marshall College
- Faculty
- Henry Jones, Jr. (1925, parts of 1930s and 1950s)
- Marcus Brody
- Charles Stanforth (1950s)
- Charles Kennedy (1936)
- Students
[edit] Locations within Marshall College
- Quad (with statue of beloved dean)
- Burke J. Carter Library[2]
- Classrooms
- Large Lecture Hall
- Office of Dean Stanforth
- Office of Henry Jones, Jr.
- Football Stadium[3]
[edit] Behind the scenes
The college is named in honor of Frank Marshall, a regular collaborator with Spielberg and a producer on all four films. When the college scenes were originally shot for Raiders of the Lost Ark, there was no perceived need to name the college, but when the novelization was being written, the author, Campbell Black, needed to call the college something, so the name Marshall College was conceived. Marshall himself forgot this until, when the film crew returned to shoot the college scenes for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, he began seeing his name everywhere.
External shots of the Marshall College campus were filmed at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, during July, 2007 for the film Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. The Yale Commons was turned into the Marshall College library interior setting, while the entrance to the Sterling Memorial Library served as the Marshall College library entrance. William L. Harkness Hall was used for the archaeology lecture hall and corridor. The Old Campus quad was used for the protest and car crash scene, and Branford College was also used for some of the campus shots.
[edit] See also
[edit] Appearances
- Raiders of the Lost Ark
- The Further Adventures of Indiana Jones
- Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
- Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull novelization
- Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull comic adaptation
[edit] Sources
[edit] External links
- Indiana Jones production hits campus - (lists specific filming sites)
[edit] References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Lost Journal of Indiana Jones
- ↑ The Lost Journal of Indiana Jones provides the name of a library at the college in the 1930s, though it is unclear whether this is the same library that Mutt Williams drives his motorcycle into in the 1950s.
- ↑ Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull comic adaptation
