Cornell in the Movies

[Roy 82]

Not a Cornell mention but the last episode of Reacher had a mention of Cortland.. You know that little town just north of Manhatten.

Is there another Cortland in ny?

Yes! It's known to me because it's a stop on Metro North. The spelling is not the same.

I grew up in the Town of Cortlandt (with a "t")
https://townofcortlandt.com/
It was a real town but never seemed to have a postal address with its name. So we used Peekskill NY - where, FUN FACT, the Facts of Life sitcom was set. In recent years, the Van Cortlandt Manor name was allowed to be used because it sounded more pretentious for purposes of selling real estate.

[RichH]

Cornell is name dropped in the Holdovers a few times

Highly recommend The Holdovers, I Loved it

And I know it takes place and was filmed in New England, but the bar they go to (pinball scene) reminded me a lot of The Palms.

[upprdeck]

I was reading a book on Ty Cobb and there is a mention that in 1900-01 a pro baseball coach  drove a car into into an unlit Cornell Swimming pool. Wonder where that would have been at the time if its true.

[George64]

I was reading a book on Ty Cobb and there is a mention that in 1900-01 a pro baseball coach  drove a car into into an unlit Cornell Swimming pool. Wonder where that would have been at the time if its true.

Ask unofficial Cornell historian Corey Earle '07, cre8@cornell.edu.

[upprdeck]

if only cornell had a way to present maps of the campus over the years.. Someday someone will invent that ability I suppose.

[George64]

if only cornell had a way to present maps of the campus over the years.. Someday someone will invent that ability I suppose.

Check out The Cornell Campus by Kermit Parsons, 1968.

[George64]

I was reading a book on Ty Cobb and there is a mention that in 1900-01 a pro baseball coach  drove a car into into an unlit Cornell Swimming pool. Wonder where that would have been at the time if its true.

Ask unofficial Cornell historian Corey Earle '07, cre8@cornell.edu.

Perhaps the Old Armory, razed in late 50s to make way for Hollister Hall?

[Trotsky]

if only cornell had a way to present maps of the campus over the years.. Someday someone will invent that ability I suppose.

I'm pretty sure Cornell does not want to trace the evolution from this to this.

[David Harding]

I was reading a book on Ty Cobb and there is a mention that in 1900-01 a pro baseball coach  drove a car into into an unlit Cornell Swimming pool. Wonder where that would have been at the time if its true.

Beebe Lake?

[French Rage]

To me the story is better if it was still in Teagle even then.

[George64]

Oppenheimer, "The epic thriller chronicles the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the enigmatic American scientist who ran the Manhattan Project — which led to the creation of the atomic bomb during World War II." As Hans Bethe, Richard Feynman and Paul Olum (had a class with him, BTW) all worked on the Manhattan Project, I think Cornell may get a mention. Even if not, sounds like an interesting movie.

Streamed Oppenheimer free on Peacock yesterday. Professors Bethe, Feynman and Morrison appeared briefly, but future Nobelist Isidor Rabi '19 had a bigger role. A good friend to Oppenheimer, a real mensch.

[George64]

Good article about Oppenheimer by Corey Earle '07.

[Trotsky]

I have been misremembering Altered States for 40 years.  I thought Edward Jessup was at Columbia, but he is at "Cornell Medical College."  Emily is at Columbia.  Note Wikipedia makes the same error.

[George64]

Movie to be released in July, Oppenheimer, "The epic thriller chronicles the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the enigmatic American scientist who ran the Manhattan Project — which led to the creation of the atomic bomb during World War II." As Hans Bethe, Richard Feynman and Paul Olum (had a class with him, BTW) all worked on the Manhattan Project, I think Cornell may get a mention. Even if not, sounds like an interesting movie.

Oppenheimer opens in theaters July 21.  Portrayed Cornell faculty include Hans Bethe (Gustaf Skarsgard), Philip Morrison (Harrison Gilbertson) and Richard Feynman (Jack Quaid), also Nobel Laureate, Isidor Isaac Rabi, BS '19 (David Krumholtz).

While at Cornell, Feynman lived at Telluride House, where he said "it's there that I did the fundamental work" for which he won the Nobel Prize in 1965.

Best Picture, Best Leading Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Cinematography . . .

[Trotsky]

Not a movie, but I just ran across this:

Jonathan Silver is an English musician who was the second drummer for the English rock band Genesis. He replaced Chris Stewart in the summer of 1968 and appears on their first full-length album, From Genesis to Revelation, and on the Genesis Archive 1967-75 box set. He left the band in August 1969 and was replaced by John Mayhew after leaving to study at Cornell University.