Indy on Foss Hill

You may know that when Spielberg wanted to film university scenes in Connecticut for the last Indiana Jones film, he came to Wesleyan first.  They turned him down and he ended up in New Haven at Yale.

So, it was a tad ironic that the Wesleyan Student Association and the Film Board decided to show Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Arc as the first-ever outdoor film showing on Foss Hill Friday night.  The film was shown on a 2000 square foot inflatable screen, also used at the TriBeCa Film Festival and drew hundreds of students (and a few neighbors) who cheered Indy's adventures lustily.  The evening grew cool quickly with a few spritzing sprinkles, and the students huddled under blankets to enjoy the outdoor flick.

The show opened with a few selected shorts, some archival video footage of a Grateful Dead appearance on Foss Hill in the sixties, and a preview of this year's Senior Thesis Films, the showings of which are coming up next weekend.


Wesleyan 2011 Film Thesis Trailer from Andrew Gladstone on Vimeo.