- "What do you think of those little people who have slaved to put that show on?"
- ―Old Indy[src]
"New York, July 1920" is a one-hour episode of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles which was edited together with "New York, June 1920" and first aired as Young Indiana Jones and the Scandal of 1920 on ABC in the United States. No other territory is known to have combined these two one-hour episodes into a single airing during their original broadcasts of the series, suggesting that the syndication package from Lucasfilm and Paramount Television only provided the episodes in this separated form as originally intended.
George Hall filmed linked bookends as Old Indy for both "New York, June 1920" and "New York, July 1920," but these bookends were not included when the episodes were edited together and aired in their combined form as a TV movie.
Plot summary[]
Opening bookend[]
At the Palace Theatre on Broadway in New York City, Professor Jones retrieves a ticket from his pocket and heads to his seat for a performance of Broadway Melody. He finds himself sitting next to a critic who is already writing his review, so Indy grabs the critic's notes and asks how he can write such scathing remarks before he's even seen the show. The critic replies that "experience" means he knows his job and "these people," and that he's "heard what's been going on during rehearsals." Indy asks if he's a critic or a gossip, and the two argue about evaluating the performance versus the people until Indy interjects that he knows whereof he speaks because he was once involved in putting on a show "when Broadway was really Broadway."
Closing bookend[]
The lights come up at the end of Broadway Melody, with the critic telling Indy how right he was about all the work it takes to put on a show. As the audience starts getting up to leave, the critic says he's going to give this play a wonderful review, but Indy is incredulous that he would have that reaction to "this dreck." When the critic asks about "all the young people," Indy gruffly tells him they should be ashamed of themselves and quit, storming off before the critic can respond.
Appearances[]
- For appearances other than those in the bookends, see Young Indiana Jones and the Scandal of 1920.
Additional cast and characters[]
- George Hall as Old Indy
- Louis Turenne as Theatre Critic
Locations[]
- United States of America
- New York
- New York City
- Broadway
- Palace Theatre
- Times Square
- Broadway
- New York City
- New York
Behind the scenes[]
Production[]
The second draft script by Jonathan Hales (combining both episodes into one teleplay as "New York, June/July 1920") is dated April 16, 1992.[1] That script explicitly references the additional bookends on its front cover and includes a "Story by George Lucas" credit which does not appear onscreen.
Principal photography for those bookends is presumed to have taken place during the same production block as the rest of the episode from May 13, 1992 to August 27, 1992,[2], with location filming in Wilmington, North Carolina, and soundstage shooting at Carolco Studios in Wilmington, along with additional filming on the backlot street then present at Carolco Studios.[3] The scenes inside the Palace Theatre between Old Indy and the theatre critic were filmed at the Thalian Hall Centre for the Performing Arts in Wilmington.[4]
Continuity[]
- The establishing shot of the Palace Theatre in the opening bookend reveals that the adjoining Embassy Theatre is showing the movie The Distinguished Gentleman, placing the timeframe of the bookends in this episode and the immediately preceding "New York, June 1920" at some point between December 4, 1992 and January 18, 1993, during the US cinema run of that movie.[5]
- The marquée of the Palace Theatre in the same establishing shot shows that Old Indy is attending a performance of Broadway Melody, though that theatre was staging the original Broadway run of The Will Rogers Follies during this period.[6]
- Despite depicting its opening night in this episode, George White's Scandals of 1920 opened on June 7, 1920.[7]
Release[]
Television[]
"New York, July 1920" never aired in this one-hour form in the United States. The episode's first known airing was on TV4 in Sweden on October 3, 1993, and it is also known to have aired on Sky One in the United Kingdom (May 28, 1994), MTV3 in Finland (July 10, 1994), and SBS6 in the Netherlands (September 16, 1995, with a rerun on June 9, 1996).[8]
Young Indiana Jones and the Scandal of 1920 is known to have aired in two parts on Rai 1 in Italy (October 16 and 23, 1993) and Sat.1 in Germany (February 16 and 17, 1995), but it is unclear whether these were airings of "New York, June 1920" and "New York, July 1920" or airings of the TV movie split in two without any of the additional material produced for those distinct episodes.
Notes and references[]
- ↑ TheRaider.net - The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles Screenplays
- ↑ Young Indy Filming Timeline
- ↑ Dewey, Marc. "Young Indy Street." On the Trail of Young Indy (February 9, 2011).
- ↑ Old Indy Bookends - Young Indy Film Locations
- ↑ Box Office Mojo - The Distinguished Gentleman
- ↑ Internet Broadway Database - The Will Rogers Follies - Broadway Musical - Original Production
- ↑ Internet Broadway Database - George White's Scandals (1920) - Broadway Musical - Original Production
- ↑ Young Indiana Jones Air Dates
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