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ITEM 1 · THE PRODUCTION RECORD SEARCHED BOTH WAYS; THE PATTERN IS NOTRE DAME'S
The film branch opens with the location question in both its forms — what was shot here, and what is set here but was shot somewhere else — and for Walkerton both forms return the same answer at full search strength. No feature, short, or television production is documented as filmed in Walkerton in the production databases, the state's film-office record, or the Tribune's entertainment record as searched: no location shoot, no second unit, no background plate. The set-here form is equally empty: no production tells a Walkerton story from another town's streets. The region's famous pattern — the campus picture, Knute Rockne's and Rudy's Notre Dame, shot substantially on the university's own ground — is South Bend's and the university's whole, printed at boundary size precisely so the contrast is legible: fifteen miles from a campus that Hollywood has used for a century, this town's ground has never been in a frame the record can name. The item closes DUG as a negative at production-record strength, with the standard for any future correction stated: a dated production credit or a contemporary press account of a shoot — the classes of evidence that document every real location — either of which, surfacing, enters as a banked correction.
Principal sources: the production databases and the Indiana film record, searched November 2026; the Rockne/Rudy pattern at boundary size.