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Film
The founding section carries Mishawaka's producers — its broadcasters, studios and recording rooms. This addendum carries the city's other film record, the one its factories made: the industrial films of the great plants, tested firm by firm, the documentary that was or was not made of the greatest plant's closing, and the festival test.
The factories on film: verdicts, firm by firm
1935–1970 · SEVENTEEN REELS AT IUSB · FOUR VERDICTS
The archive that answers three of the four tests: Indiana University South Bend's archives hold the Mishawaka Woolen and Rubber Company Film Collection — seventeen 16mm reel-to-reel films "produced by the Mishawaka-based…
The documentary of the closing, and the production company
1997–2000 · A TESTED NEGATIVE · VIRTUAL VOX'S FILM SIDE
The closing, with its date conflict printed whole: the former Ball Band plant ceased operations in 1997. The university archive's telling has the empty buildings demolished in June 2000 and Robert C. Beutter Riverfront Park…
Film Festivals
THE TEST PRINTED WHOLE · RIVER BEND IS SOUTH BEND'S
The test: whether any film festival was ever founded by Mishawaka — founded in the city, seated in the city, and what its course and departure were. The searches run in November 2026 for a Mishawaka film festival, by the city's…