Editing Breaking Away (section)

==Production==
===Inspiration===
The bicycling team is based on the 1962 [[Phi Kappa Psi]] Little 500 champions, which featured legendary rider and Italian enthusiast [[Dave Blase]], who provided screenwriter and fellow Phi Kappa Psi team member Steve Tesich the inspiration for the main character in the movie.<ref name=IAM>{{cite web |url=http://alumni.indiana.edu/magazine/issues/200003/little500.shtml |title=Pedaling Through 50 Years of Little 500 History |author=Jim Schwarb |publisher=Indiana Alumni Magazine |access-date=November 18, 2010}}</ref> Blase, together with team manager Bob Stohler, provided the name of this character: Dave Stohler.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.espn.com/espn/page2/story?page=caple/070503 |title=Nothing little about IU's Little 500 |author=Jim Caple |publisher=[[ESPN]] Sports |date=May 3, 2007}}</ref> In the 1962 race, Blase rode 139 out of 200 laps<ref name=IAM/> and crossed the finish line as the victor, much like the main character in the film. Blase appears in the movie as the race announcer.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Breaking 50 in Bloomington, Ind., The Little 500 Bicycle Race Outpaces Even Its Own 'Breaking Away' Myth.|last=Zoroya|first=G.|date=7 April 2000|work=USA Today|page=01D}}</ref>

The working title of the movie script was ''Bambino'', written in 1978, which originally had Dave's family name as "Blase," which was later changed to "Stohler" for the film.<ref>[https://thescriptlab.com/wp-content/uploads/scripts/Breaking-Away-fka-Bambino-by-Steve-Tesich.pdf ''Bambino'' by Steve Tesich. 1978. ''The Script Lab.'' Retrieved 22 June 2023.]</ref>

===Filming===
[[File:Lincoln Street South, 756, Breaking Away House, Bryan Park SA.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Dave's house]]
[[File:SandersQuarryIndiana.JPG|thumb|right|250px|Rooftop Quarry, originally named Sanders Quarry, near Bloomington]]
Location filming in and around Bloomington<ref name=NYT>{{cite news |title=Breaking Away (1979) |author=Janet Maslin |newspaper=The New York Times |date=July 18, 1979 }}</ref> took place during the summer of 1978. 

The abandoned limestone quarry in which Dave and his friends swam, called Rooftop Quarry by locals, is at the end of East Empire Mill Road, off the old [[Indiana State Road 37|State Road 37]], in [[Perry Township, Monroe County, Indiana|Perry Township]], south of Bloomington.<ref>{{cite news |title=These New Photos Show Rooftop Is Inaccessible But Not Destroyed |url=https://www.limestonepostmagazine.com/these-new-photos-show-rooftop-is-inaccessible-but-not-destroyed/ |access-date=2 January 2019 |work=Limestone Post Magazine |date=May 16, 2016}}</ref>

=== Editing ===
[[Cynthia Scheider]], one of the few women in film editing during that time, got her first job as chief film editor on Breaking Away.<ref>Scott, Vernon (October 20, 1986). "Scheider at his wife's Mercy". ''UPI''. Retrieved 2025-03-13.</ref>