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===Filming=== Filming began on May 25, 1988. The shooting schedule was built around Costner's availability because he would be leaving in August to film ''[[Revenge (1990 film)|Revenge]]''. Except for some weather delays and other time constraints, production rolled six days a week. The interior scenes were the first ones shot because the cornfield planted by the filmmakers was taking too long to grow. Irrigation had to be used to quickly grow the corn to Costner's height. Primary shot locations were in [[Dubuque County, Iowa]]; [[Field of Dreams (Dubuque County, Iowa)|a farm]] near [[Dyersville, Iowa|Dyersville]] was used for the Kinsella home; an empty warehouse in [[Dubuque, Iowa|Dubuque]] was used to build various interior sets. [[Galena, Illinois]], served as Moonlight Graham's [[Chisholm, Minnesota]].<ref name="scrap" /> One week was spent on location shots in [[Boston]], most notably [[Fenway Park]].<ref>{{cite AV media |chapter= Production Notes |title= Field of Dreams |medium= DVD }}{{full citation needed|date=March 2015}}<!--If this is from a printed booklet, switch to "cite AV media notes".--></ref> Robinson, despite having a sufficient budget as well as the cast and crew he wanted, constantly felt tense and depressed during filming. He felt that he was under too much pressure to create an outstanding film, and that he was not doing justice to the original novel. Lawrence Gordon convinced him that the end product would be effective.<ref name=scrap/> During a lunch with the Iowa Chamber of Commerce, Robinson broached his idea of a final scene in which headlights could be seen for miles along the horizon. The Chamber folks replied that it could be done and the shooting of the final scene became a community event. The film crew was hidden on the farm to make sure the aerial shots did not reveal them. A [[production assistant]] drove from the set into town and measured the distance between, deducing it would require 1,500 cars to fill the shot.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/la-sp-morning-briefing-20190624-story.html|title = Morning Briefing: Who was the voice in 'Field of Dreams'?| website=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date = June 24, 2019}}</ref> Dyersville was then blacked out and local extras drove their vehicles to the field. In order to give the illusion of movement, the drivers were instructed to continuously switch between their low and high beams.
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