Tales of Patch Adams

Late last spring, the UNC campus was host to a movie-making company.  The film, Patch Adams, starred Robin Williams.  Since our hiking group tours the campus each Monday night and meets at the Caffé Trio on each Tuesday for lunch, we couldn't help but take an interest in the goings on.  Darrah, one of our members who works on Franklin Street, volunteered to be an extra and was accepted.  She took us on a tour of the costume collection in Memorial Hall, about 1000 costumes circa the seventies.  What follows is what I captured with the new Nikon digital camera.

Virginia Medical University
June 9th, 1998
Phoney VMU plaque
Virginia Med U on the green
Carroll Hall masquerades as VMU building
That's UNC's Carroll Hall on the left transformed into a VMU building.
Filming
June 16th, 1998
Pool scene
On the left, the crew gathers around a swimming pool.
Stirrups
The legs on the left were the source of some controversy with students attending a Women's Studies class across the green.
Patch Adams himself
June 17th, 1998
No question that Robin Williams would be upstaged by the real Patch
Patch Adams gave out autograph to admirer
You can see why they made a movie about this man!  Some scrubs.
Extras are given a tour of the set.
Graduation day at last
June 18th, 1998
Graduates walk single file onto the set.
Curious extras take their places
Here's a small beer making a statement.
Graduates, parents and faculty are in place.