The Screen Test, Run Both Ways — nothing shot here; two famous films that touch the city

THE TWO-WAY TEST, AT THE RECORD'S SIZE

What the cameras shot here: Nothing that commerce released. The producers record of this history ran the screen test whole — the film-commission and location literature, the trade and newspaper record, and the productions' own published location accounts — and its verdict stands at the head of this article because it is this section's business too: in the record reached, no commercial feature film or television series shoot on Mishawaka ground is documented. The single surviving item is a family's, not a production's: a 1948 home movie by Lewis Mundell, held by the University of Notre Dame Archives, includes footage of Mishawaka's parks. The city's screens have shown the valley's films for a century; its ground, so far as production records show, has hosted none of them.

The famous film the city is credited for: Rudy (1993) is the test case, and it fails as a Mishawaka claim on the American Film Institute's record, as the producers record prints it: the film's ground is Notre Dame's, in South Bend's file, and no Mishawaka location appears anywhere in its production record. The reverse touch is Patton (1970), which carries a Mishawaka man — Charles Kuhl, played by Tim Considine, in the hospital scene that made him famous — onto screens worldwide without bringing a camera within an ocean of his city. And one broadcast did come to Mishawaka ground: the live shot on Good Morning America that announced the city's sesquicentennial to a national audience in 1983, carried whole in the culture record — a morning's fame, at a morning's size. The screen map of Mishawaka is therefore three lines long: nothing filmed here, one famous film wrongly credited here, one famous film carrying a Mishawakan everywhere but here.

Sources:

1. The producers record of this history — the screen test whole: the searches, the negative verdict, the Mundell home movie of 1948, and the Rudy test on the American Film Institute's record.
2. The stories-told record of this history — the claims record, carrying the Rudy failure among the build's tested claims.
3. The culture record of this history — the sesquicentennial of 1983 and its Good Morning America live shot.