While at Harvard be sure to see the glass flowers at the Harvard Museum. It is one of the most extraordinary exhibits of craftsmanship I have ever seen. These are glass flowers produced by a German father and son. The work is so fine, that you can tell they are glass, and that is not hyperbole.

http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/on_exhib...s_flowers.html

And remember when you visit the Harvard Coop it is called the Coop and pronounced like chicken coop.

Good Will Hunting was photographed at Harvard.

I think many of Good Will Huntings outdoor Harvard Square shots may have been in Cambridge( and SOuth Boston, and Boston Public Garden, etc type spaces) - but I don't think any of the scenes were actually filmed in or at Harvard U

- an outdoor shot maybe which Harvard can't control -
but the interior shots, the classrooms, dorms, etc - I think that one was all in Canada -

I posted something and it is not here..weird..

anyway - we live about 30 minutes or so from USC - DD will be crushed to think that Elle Woods was not really at Harvard ;-)

A family member tells me that the recent move The Great Debaters was the first one allowed to film in Harvard since Love Story..... inquiring minds want to know....

With Honors(Brenden Frasier)
had some scenes there.

The shots were mostly Cambridge in GWH.

It's my understanding that Harvard does not allow films to shoot on campus. I'm going to have to find out. I thought even Love Story wasn't actually filmed there.

Here's what I found out so far:

"Oliver and Jennifer meet at Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, where scenes were filmed at Harvard Yard and Tercentuary Theatre. Along with the sequel, Oliver's Story, legal drama The Paper Chase and misfiring comedy Soul Man, it's one of the few features actually filmed on the hallowed campus. Good Will Hunting features Harvard buidlings, though most of the film was shot in Toronto. And, apart from a couple of establishing shots, the Harvard-set Legally Blonde was filmed in LA, mainly in Pasadena. Similarly, raucus comedies Road Trip and Old School incorporate second unit shots of the campus"

And this from that bastion of truth, Wikipedia:

"Since the filming of Love Story in the 1960s the university, until the summer of 2007 filming of The Great Debaters did not allow any movies to be filmed in campus buildings; most films are shot in look-alike cities, such as Toronto, and colleges such as UCLA, Wheaton and Bridgewater State, although outdoor and aerial shots of Harvard's Cambridge campus are often used.[57]. Legally Blonde filmed the area in front of Harvard's Widener Library but declined to use actual Harvard Students for extras because they were deemed to not be "Harvard enough" due to their non-preppy attire. The shot used extras dressed to "look like" Harvard students instead.[58] The graduation scene from With Honors was filmed in front of Foellinger Auditorium at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign."

MomDDTravel, it looks like you can just stay home

Here's what I found on GWH,
Boston, Massachusetts, USA


Bow & Arrow Pub - 1 Bow Street, Harvard Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA


Bunker Hill Community College - 250 N. Rutherford Avenue, Charlestown, Boston, Massachusetts, USA


Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA


Central Tech. High School, Toronto, Ontario, Canada


Dorchester, Boston, Massachusetts, USA


Dunster House, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
(exterior)


E. 5th Street, South Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Well I think it's perfectly normal to take your 11 year old to see Harvard. It's the most famous university in the country and it's chock full of historic architecture. Harvard is a huge tourist attraction for people of all ages, most of whom I assume don't harbor any illusions about attending

Movies have outdoor scenes, but it does appear the Great Debaters is the first film since Love Story to be allowed to film on the Harvard Campus - even
With Honors, was at other colleges

MomDD now you've started something !!!

So now we know Harvard, until the above movie, Great Debators didn't allow any on site shots since Love Storey - but WHY????

that's the question even my younger family members - avid film buffs - can not seem to answer for me !

Well we just saved you a TON of money MomDD - now you only have to drive 30 minutes to see the setting for that movie -

Thank you Wyatt

And going to USC or Pasadena is not the same obviously - she just wanted to see Harvard... LOL ... But yes, in this case, the cost factor is simply too high for the time, etc.

The debate scenes in the Great Debaters were definitely filmed in Sanders Theater at Harvard. I believe the movie premiered in Cambridge. (Good movie by the way for those who haven't seen it)

I think you are wise to postpone a trip to Boston/Cambridge until some time when you can really enjoy the area.

It's not a movie, but at least 2 episodes of Gilmore Girls entailed scenes at Harvard.

HKP, the matter being "debated" (pun intended) isn't whether movies (or TV shows) entail scenes supposedly at Harvard, but whether they were actually shot at Harvard (most are not).

I know Harvard well, and it WAS Harvard in the Gilmore episodes. Some of the exteriors were actually in the "Quad" (former Radcliffe area) but they actually did talk in front of the John Harvard statue and the Widener stairs. Wikipedia either got their dates wrong or the Gilmore Girls episode was filmed after Great Debaters. Of course, Wikipedia NEVER gets anything wrong, DOES it?

Wikipedia was discussing films, not TV.

I am LOL at this thread... we are not going to Boston as I believe I shared but it is fun to read this