"Let me give you the answer to many of the questions that we get about this room," thundered the National Archives security guard, "No! No! No! No!"
We listened to this presentation after spending about 60 minutes just to get in to the National Archives building and another 30 minutes waiting in yet another line to visit The Rotunda. The Rotunda is a massive, chapel like area where the greatest documents of world history are on display. Selena very carefully photographed the Magna Carta, The Constitution, Declaration of Independence, Bill of Rights, The 13th Amendment and others in our time we were there.
"That movie did not come close to filming in here as The National Archives did not want to be associated with the concept of stealing the Declaration of Independence," the guard continued, "We did let them film that no-talent actor Nicholas Cage to be on the steps leavning the building. We also let them put a red carpet on the steps in front of the building."
"And no I am the dumb security guard who let them steal the Declaration of Independence."
"And there is no one who works at The Archives that looks anything like that blonde in the movie."
He actually did say "that no talent actor Nicholas Cage." Hahaha.
He also talked about the zero tolerance for flash photography.
"If your camera flashes you lose your camera. Period. A test flash is a flash and YOU WILL lose your camera." Luckily, as we have been finding out with our camera, we do not need a flash.
We were running out of time to catch our tour bus and we just missed getting into the next group that was about to enter. We looked at the security guard and Selena told him we had to go as we needed to catch our bus. This security guard was funny and a super nice guy. He lifted the velvet rope and let us cut in front of about 40 people and go directly into The Rotunda. Just awesome. We did our photography work. Selena was so worried about the flash. We headed for the gift shop. It was a really nice gift shop. And we found out another thing that was not true about National Treasure. In the movie, Nicholas Cage pays 35 dollars for a copy of the Declaration of Independence. The real price? $13.95
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