What's the name of the boarding school in "Dead Poets Society"?
Robin Williams's John Keating walks into a place that practically screams "we've been molding young men into carbon copies since before your great-grandfather was born." It's one of those stuffy New England prep schools with strict dress codes, rigid curriculum, and enough Latin mottos to make your head spin. What's the name of this "bastion" of academic conformity that becomes the battleground for Keating's revolutionary teaching methods?
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Correct Answer: Welton Academy
(Source)The filmmakers really outdid themselves when they created Welton Academy. The name sounds like it came right out of "guide to 100 year old Ivy League feeder schools" book. Even though the film is set in Vermont, the school was based on screenwriter Tom Schulman's experience attending Montgomery Bell Academy in Tennessee, and filming actually happened a few states north at St. Andrew's School in Delaware. If you're going to tell a story about New England prep school tradition, you might as well bounce around the entire Eastern seaboard to get it right.
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