HONNOLD/MUDD LIBRARY: The Movie Star
Many movies and television shows have been filmed at The Claremont Colleges over the years. The campuses have appeared most often as a college campus, from early co-ed features in the Roaring Twenties, to being a stand-in for Cal Tech in Real Genius. In a memorable episode to Quantum Leap, the Carnegie Building became a courthouse in the South. Many productions have used Pomona College's "ivy league" look, or the nearby charm of the Claremont Village. Only a few have used the Honnold/Mudd Library buildings.
Images belong to 2Oth Century Fox.
Dreamscape. 1985. This science fiction feature with Dennis Quaid, Max Von Sydow, Christopher Plummer, Eddie Albert, and Kate Capshaw concerns a project to use psychics to enter people's dreams. The protagonist fears someone is misusing the project and killing people. Much of the film takes place on a college campus, and the pep-rally scene was filmed on the north steps of the Honnold building. The filmmakers added hedges and a statue to the quad, but the building's north entrance is recognizable.
Images belong to Viacom and Paramount.
Matlock. (1986) An episode of this long-running detective show featured a library scene where a balcony was needed for the plot. An alibi was established for one sister by a glimpse of another sister upstairs on the balcony. The Special Collections Reading Room on the north side of Honnold provided the needed combination of library and balcony, though the main room was extensively rearranged for the scene.
Image belongs to AT+T.
AT&T commercial. 1989. One of a series of commercials using the catch phrases, "Have you ever…? You will with AT&T." The first few seconds feature a stunning mist-filled view of the Multi-Tier Stack representing the libraries of the world, in the background of the shot. In the foreground, a young woman studies a text page on a large computer screen. "Have you ever gotten a book from a thousand miles away? You will." The other two sections of the commercial, not filmed at Claremont, are about traveling across the country without having to ask for directions by using GPS technology; and sending a fax while sitting on the beach.
And just a footnote: the psychology books that Val Kilmer is studying in his dorm (Mason Hall at Pomona College) in Real Genius (1985) were checked out of Honnold Library to use in the scene.
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