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INDY(cont'd) But before that, the Pharoah had the Ark hidden away in a secret chamber called the Well of the Souls. Which is where the Staff of Ra comes in.
Indy moves to the blackboard and makes a quick sketch to give a rough idea of the system as he describes it. (And we get a glimpse of what an interesting and enthusiastic teacher he must be)
INDY Now this was rather clever. The Staff was really just a big stick - oh, I don’t know, say like this - (he indicates about six feet) - no one really knows for sure. Anyway, it was capped by an elaborate headpiece with a carving of the sun at the top. What you had to do was take the Staff to a special room in Tanis - it had the whole city laid out in miniature on the floor. When you placed the Staff in a certain spot in the room, at a certain time of day, the sun would shine through a hole here in the headpiece and then send a beam of light down here - to the map - giving you the location of the Well of the Souls... MUSGROVE ... where the Ark of the Covenant was kept.
INDY
(nods) Which is probably what the Nazis are after.
EATON What’s this Ark look like?
INDY Look like? Why, it’s right here...
Indy pulls a big format book from the stack on his lectern and flips through the pages until he finds a large color print. The other men gather to look.
THE PRINT fills the screen.
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