Famous scenes: the Fort Wayne that is actually on screen

1996 — 2021

Pointable places: Because the city's productions were few, its famous scenes can be enumerated, and the documented ones are these. The last shot of In the Company of Men was filmed in the main banking lobby of the Lincoln Bank Tower on East Berry Street; the tower also gave the film offices and restrooms and a shot from its roof looking down at the Allen County Courthouse. The picture opens at the city's new airport — Fort Wayne International, then still Baer Field — where the production had the use of a jet donated by US Air. The two men's excursion with Christine was filmed at the Fort Wayne Children's Zoo, on its African Veldt. The office scenes were played in a downtown high-rise that stood closed for renovation, a detail preserved by former WANE anchor Ken Owen's account of the film's DVD commentary. Filmmaker Magazine's production report is the authority for the airport, the zoo and the tower; the tower's own building history confirms the final shot. Catalog location listings — a tier below the production press — add the Pfeiffer House at 434 West Wayne Street, the Fort Wayne Marriott on Washington Center Road, Cindy's Diner, and the IPFW campus for the same film.

For American Reel, the remembered Fort Wayne is North Side High School, the Lincoln Tower again, O'Sullivan's, and the Knotty Pine Motel on Goshen Road. For The Baby Pact, it is the Allen County Courthouse playing itself — the courtroom and the building's limestone front carrying the custody story. For Night of Evil, no scene-by-scene locations survive in the sources this record could reach: what the record keeps is the city, the summer of 1960, and the Embassy premiere, with the Journal Gazette's 2019 retrospective standing as the local account.

Sources:

1. Filmmaker Magazine, Fall 1996, Production Update — the new airport and donated US Air jet, the Children's Zoo and its African Veldt, and the Lincoln Tower among the locations.
2. Lincoln Bank Tower building history (the tower's article of record) — the main bank lobby as the setting of the final shot; the end apartment played by a lobby room; restrooms, offices, and a roof shot overlooking the Allen County Courthouse.
3. ACGSI, "Videos for Allen County, Indiana" — Ken Owen's January 2024 account of the DVD commentary (office scenes in a downtown high rise closed for renovations); the American Reel locations.
4. IMDb filming-location data as compiled by Wondrous Drifter — the Pfeiffer House, Fort Wayne Marriott, and IPFW listings for In the Company of Men, carried here as catalog listings, not production-press record.
5. Input Fort Wayne, 10 November 2021 — The Baby Pact at the Allen County Courthouse.