<p>Anyone in New Haven currently? Chapel street and a whole bunch of places now look like they’re from the 50’s. It is pretty nice, if you are, you should see it.</p>
<p>How is the filming going? I hear there are thousands of people from Hollywood who have invaded the city.</p>
<p>They had a huge party at the green last night. Fireworks, food, and performers etc… It was pretty cool.</p>
<p>all the stores along chapel street (next to old campus) have been refitted with new signs and new exterior layouts to mimic the old '50s style</p>
<p>I sort of want to take a prop/momento. I think I’ll wait until after they finish shooting.</p>
<p>Someone told me that the entire downtown will be basically shut down for three weeks, and that there are makeup/dressing/filming trucks lining the streets for blocks and blocks, all the way out to the edge of town. True?</p>
<p>Tuesday night tons of downtown restaurants, bars, and stores were having Indiana Jones themed promotions/freebies. Huge turnout from what I heard. I havent checked out Chapel Street yet, but I’ll report back on it when i do!</p>
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<p>Tried to get down prospect today, and part of the street was closed off. Ton of people were out and about. I ended up going back home since so many streets were either closed or full of traffic. I might try again tomorrow, I’ll probably take a bus into the city though.</p>
<p>Does anyone know if they will actually use any recognizable parts of Yale’s campus in the movie?</p>
<p>The chase is on
Ed Stannard, Register Metro Editor
06/29/2007</p>
<p>NEW HAVEN — Hollywood came to New Haven in full regalia Thursday, with classic cars, vintage clothes and dozens of production staffers, extras and onlookers. </p>
<p>As the assistant director called out all day, “Indiana Jones” is “Rolling!”</p>
<p>As the chase scene in the fourth Indy movie got under way, stuntmen standing in for Harrison Ford and another character rode a motorcycle down College Street, from Grove Street all the way past Chapel Street, weaving between a New Britain Transportation Co. bus, a Ronconi’s Plumbing truck and various 1950s sedans, followed closely by another cycle decked out with cameras.</p>
<p>While professor Henry “Indiana” Jones was dressed in a tweed jacket, the motorcycle driver wore black leather, with “Mitt” written on the chest.</p>
<p>It was a little hairy and not in the script, but shortly after 1 p.m., the cycle toppled, slightly injuring the driver.</p>
<p>Dennis Stewart, co-producer of the movie, said the bike “hit a rough patch of road” and the stunt actor bumped his head and scraped his elbow. He was brought to the hospital as a precaution.</p>
<p>“He is, in fact, on his way back” to the set, Stewart said at 5:15 p.m. He said the crew took a break for lunch and another stunt actor was brought in while the first was patched up.</p>
<p>Of the injured actor, whom he would not name, Stewart said, “He is one of the best motorcycle stunt men in the world. We brought him in especially for this project.”</p>
<p>Katie Ambrose, a Yale School of Music graduate, was watching filming from the second floor of Sprague Hall and saw the accident.</p>
<p>“I’m sort of amazed he didn’t get run over,” she said of the injured man, whom Stewart said is British.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, the real Harrison Ford was filming a classroom scene in William L. Harkness Hall on Cross Campus. He and groups of actors wearing kilt skirts, saddle shoes and cat-eye glasses came out for snacks at one point.</p>
<p>Ford interrupted a cell phone call when a reporter shouted a question, but, while polite, said only, “I’m sorry, I can’t right now.” as he went back into the Gothic building.</p>
<p>Ford and girlfriend Calista Flockhart, of “Ally McBeal” fame, received positive reviews Wednesday evening as they ventured downtown.</p>
<p>Accompanied by a boy, likely Flockhart’s son, they had dinner at Barcelona on Temple Street and then stopped for ice cream at Tasti D-Lite on High Street.</p>
<p>“He walks into the restaurant, and you watch his movies your whole life and there he was, standing in front of you,” said Matt Davies, Barcelona’s general manager.</p>
<p>“They were extremely nice people. They came in, they had a nice, little tapas experience. It was almost just like a normal family came in,” he said.</p>
<p>Alvaro Zuniga, a senior at Wilbur Cross High School, served them a chocolate gelato and a French vanilla cone at Tasti D-Lite.</p>
<p>“I’m a big fan and so’s my dad, and I wanted so much to ask for his autograph, but I didn’t want to seem trendy,” Zuniga said.</p>
<p>On the College Street set Thursday, extras could be seen pushing baby carriages or just strolling down College Street.</p>
<p>“To be an extra, your best training is military training,” said one, a Screen Actors Guild member who wasn’t allowed to give his name. “You show up at Oh-dark-30, they feed you … and then you stand around waiting for something to happen.”</p>
<p>Addyson England was visiting Yale from Phoenix, weighing whether she wants to study medicine here. “Whoa! It’s a little hectic,” she said while waiting for a scene to finish. “I’m definitely more interested” in Yale, she said after watching the ancient cars roll by, caught up in “the excitedness of this whole area.”</p>
<p>On Chapel Street, cell phone cameras were everywhere as people took photos of the redone 1957 storefronts. “I really think it’s the best P.R. I have seen in 20 years,” said Pansy Croft, owner of Seychelles, which is appearing as Johansen & Sons Ltd. Tuxedos and Bridal. “A lot of people came down and it’s almost a Mardi Gras atmosphere.”</p>
<p>Today, filming is likely to include Chapel Street and Yale’s Old Campus. Fire Marshal Joseph Cappucci said the crew was practicing blowing up flower pots, which will somehow be smashed during the chase.</p>
<p>And in the midst of the Old Campus, workers were creating a fake statue. It appeared the chances were good the statue wouldn’t survive the chase.</p>
<p>Check out the girl in the video who came from Switzerland.</p>
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<p>"Marshall said they plan to spend between $8 million and $9 million locally for the production, employing 100 to 125 workers from the New Haven area and 110 to 115 vendors. Marshall said filmmakers are also using about 800 extras from Connecticut, many of them Yale students.</p>
<p>“We found a way to do just about everything we wanted to do at Yale and in New Haven,” location manager Michael Fantasia said. That includes running a motorcycle into the school library, an idea that at first didn’t go over too well with the school until Fantasia said they decided to build an 80-foot tunnel that would contain the motorcycle’s exhaust so it wouldn’t damage the old books.</p>
<p>It’s not the first time Yale and its surroundings served as movie backdrops, said Stephanie Schwartz, director of marketing for Yale, who pointed to such films as “Mona Lisa Smile” with Julia Roberts and “In Bloom” with Uma Thurman.</p>
<p>“But neither of those movies featured the scope and depth of the commitment of the university like this one has,” Schwartz said. “We are so fortunate to be able to showcase the beauty of this campus to a global audience in this way.”</p>
<p>“Alvaro Zuniga, a senior at Wilbur Cross High School, served them a chocolate gelato and a French vanilla cone at Tasti D-Lite.”</p>
<p>Damn, I applied for a job there.</p>
<p>bummer!!!</p>
<p>It’s a darn shame that we unsuspecting visitors couldn’t access most of the campus today, although I did catch a glimpse of “Indiana” himself! Or maybe it was his stunt double…</p>
<p>As a prospective applicant, I understand these special circumstances, yet-- along with most of the group–was underwhelmed by Yale’s seemingly lackadaisical attitude. From the information session to the tour itself, the entire presentation was appallingly disorganized. </p>
<p>After meandering around New Haven for ninety-odd minutes, I couldn’t help but feel disgruntled and disappointed, not that I’ll dwell on my first impression when eventually deciding where to apply.</p>
<p>You probably should go back when the campus is actually open. Not just for tours but when students are actually there. Otherwise you really will have no clue what it is like.</p>
<p>yeah, unfortunately these few days around filming have been hectic (though admittedly interesting) for everyone. i understand your frustration, and if you can, you should def pay another visit and im sure you’ll leave with a more positive conclusion</p>
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Scroll down and check it out, the girl flew in from Switzerland and hung around every day for a week starting at 5AM to get this.</p>