Movie Minute: Gatsby in Connecticut

When director/producer Robert Steven Williams agreed to create a 10-minute video for the Westport historical society, he had no idea he would be creating a feature film documentary that would utterly disrupt the literary world. Gatsby in Connecticut: The Untold Story F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is regarded as one of, if not the most important American novel ever written. Scholars, students, and general readers alike have turned the pages of this time suspended tome and applied a litany of lore to it. In fact, the foremost specialist thought he had set elements in stone - including that the book was set in Great Neck, Long Island… But was it? Robert Steven Williams unravels a century-old mystery - where The Great Gatsby was really set, who the real Jay Gatsby was (Yes! The man and the parties are very REAL!) and he even found the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock. For anyone who has ever read this incredible story, Gatsby in Connecticut is a must-watch.