Location: 607 4th Street, Sioux City, IA 51101
URL: http://www.siouxcitymuseum.org/
 

Background on “Iowa Film and Book Collection”

The blockbuster films Field of Dreams (1989) and Bridges of Madison County (1995) were based on bestselling books. The Iowa film locations quickly became tourist destinations that persist into the present. In 1996, Marty Knepper and John Lawrence, then colleagues at Morningside College in Sioux City, Iowa, began to study the Iowa film phenomenon and the history of Iowa films. Using film archives and databases, newspaper articles, Iowa Film Office/Produce Iowa