The screen test, run both ways: what cameras shot here, and the famous film this town is credited for but did not host

LEG 28 · ITEM 7 · RUN B #145 · SEARCHES SHOWN

The test was run in both directions, and for this ground both directions come back negative — which is the finding, printed with its searches: Positive direction — what cameras actually shot in Osceola or Penn Township. Searched: film-location records and Indiana filming-location roundups (the state's film-location literature names its shot-here towns title by title), Cinema Treasures at production strength (already negative in Arts for any motion-picture house seated in Osceola), and the web under the town's and township's names with production terms. Result: no feature, television or documented production is recorded as shot in Osceola or Penn Township. The valley's one famous shoot belongs to the boundary: Rudy (1993) was filmed extensively at Notre Dame and in South Bend in the autumn of 1992 — Notre Dame Stadium (game scenes at real halftimes), the Basilica, the Grotto, Corby Hall as the dormitory — the first production the university had allowed on campus since Knute Rockne, All American; that film's year prints in conflict in the carriers (1940 in the reference record; one summary misprints 1938) and both are carried, unmerged. Negative direction — the famous film this ground is credited for but did not host. The credit runs through the Blue Sox: because South Bend fielded a team in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, the league's famous film, A League of Their Own (1992), is casually attached to this valley — but Penny Marshall's production shot its baseball in southern Indiana, at Bosse Field in Evansville and League Stadium in Huntingburg (built 1894, dressed as the Rockford Peaches' home field); no frame of it was shot in South Bend, Mishawaka or Penn Township. One carrier's error is worth printing because it shows how credits drift: the University of Southern Indiana's Bosse Field page dates the filming there to 1999, seven years after the film's release — the movie is 1992, and the page's date is simply wrong.

Verdict, item 7 — TESTED NEGATIVE (for this ground, both ways; the boundary positive and the credited-film negative printed with the searches shown).

Sources: Rudy production record (filming Oct–Dec 1992 at Notre Dame/South Bend; first campus filming since Knute Rockne, All American — year printed 1940 and 1938 in different carriers); Travel Indiana and film-location literature (A League of Their Own at Evansville and Huntingburg); USI Library Bosse Field page (filming misdated 1999 — flagged); Arts (Cinema Treasures negative). Searches run 11 Nov 2026.