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===Filming=== The film was in production from April 5 to June 3, 1949,<ref>TCM [https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/2199/battleground Overview]</ref> with location shooting in northern California, Oregon, and Washington state. [[Fort Lewis (Washington)|Fort Lewis, Washington]] was used for the tank sequence showing the relief of the [[101st Airborne]] by [[George S. Patton|Patton]]'s Third Army. Shooting took 20 days less than was scheduled, due in part to innovative measures taken by Schary such as processing film as it was shot, then dubbing and cutting it so that scenes could be previewed within two days of being shot.<ref name="tcmnotes" /> The film came in almost $100,000 under budget.<ref name="tcmarticle" /> Upon the conclusion of filming, cinematographer [[Paul C. Vogel]] described his work in a professional journal: <blockquote>Except for the opening scenes (filmed at Sawtelle General Hospital) and the climax (shot at Fort McArthur), ''Battleground'' was filmed indoors on Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s Stage 15. This is a cavernous affair, measuring 130x320 feet with a ceiling height of 70 feet, nearly three million cubic feet of air....All lighting...was from overhead....However, it frequently left actors' faces black under their regulation G.I. helmets. Supplementary lighting for face modelling was used from the floor up....despite the constant 40 degrees temperature maintained by the stepped-up air conditioning system, we discovered that soon after lighting the set each morning, the lamp heat started the air currents flowing—but not always in the same direction! We turned this meteorological oddity to advantage placing our fog machines—spraying vaporized light machine oil—at strategic positions, allowing the indoor currents to waft our fog into the desired place....En passant, the constant fog—chemical, not mental—in which we worked for more than seven weeks killed the desire to smoke. Cinematographers overly addicted to nicotine might try this effective, but drastic cure."<ref>. Vogel, Paul. "Different...and Difficult." American Cinematographer 30:12 (December 1949), 456-57.</ref></blockquote>
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