Smarty Pance heads out to Halstead & Nickerson, Kansas to visit the filming locations of the Movie "Picnic" from 1955!. F: Where some picnic scenes were filmed in the ball park, located on the other side of the suspension bridge (these were some of the picnic "games" were shot, that needed a wide open area; The Three-Legged Race, Rolling-Pin Throw, Girl-Carrying Contest, and Trained Seals contests were filmed there); H: Where the ban stan was located;
Picnic is a richly detailed snapshot of life in the American Midwest during the 1950s. In all, five Kansas cities and towns—Salina, Hutchinson, Halstead, Nickerson and Sterling — in the heart of the state were selected to provide the authentic Kansas backdrop for the picture. Filming took six weeks in Kansas, with interior shots filmed afterwards in Hollywood (Burbank Studios, 3000 W.. Picnic: Directed by Joshua Logan. With William Holden, Kim Novak, Betty Field, Susan Strasberg. Emotions are ignited among the complacent townsfolk when a handsome drifter arrives in a small Kansas community on the morning of the Labor Day picnic.