Editing Last of the Summer Wine (section)

===Filming===
[[File:Holmfirth Sid's Cafe.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|left|Sid's Café in [[Holmfirth]], a regular filming location. The café has become a tourist destination on the strength of the series, and features a model of Compo outside for photographic purposes.]]
The site for the exterior shots of ''Last of the Summer Wine'' was, in part, suggested by television producer [[Barry Took]], who was familiar with the area. Took had, in the 1950s, toured as a stand-up comic, often appearing at [[working men's club]]s. One such appearance was at Burnlee Working Men's Club, a club in the small [[West Yorkshire]] town of [[Holmfirth]], and Took saw Holmfirth's potential as the backdrop of a television show. Twenty years later, he returned to Holmfirth, where he filmed an episode of the BBC documentary series ''Having a Lovely Time'', which turned out to be the highest rated episode of the show. When Took heard that [[James Gilbert (producer)|James Gilbert]] and Roy Clarke were looking for a place with a centre surrounded by hills for their new television programme, he suggested the idea to Duncan Wood, who was at that time filming ''[[Comedy Playhouse]]''. Gilbert and Clarke then travelled to Holmfirth and decided to use it as the setting for the pilot episode.<ref name="30 Years LOTSW" /><ref name="Bright">Bright and Ross (2000), pp.&nbsp;13–14</ref><ref name="Summer Wine Online">{{cite web|url=http://www.summer-wine.com/story.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080501132716/http://www.summer-wine.com/story.htm |title=The Summer Wine Story: Why was it filmed in Holmfirth? |publisher=Summer Wine Appreciation Society |work=Summer Wine Online |archive-date= 1 May 2008 |access-date=2 April 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="Vine 17-19">Vine (2011), pp.&nbsp;17-19</ref>

Though the exterior shots were always filmed on location in Holmfirth and the surrounding countryside, the interior shots were, until the early 1990s, filmed in front of a live studio audience at [[BBC Television Centre]] in London. The amount of location work increased, however, as studio work became a drain on time and money. Under [[Alan J. W. Bell]], ''Last of the Summer Wine'' became the first comedy series to do away with the live studio audience, moving all of the filming to Holmfirth.<ref name="Bright and Ross 117">Bright and Ross (2000), p.&nbsp;117</ref> The episodes were filmed and then shown to preview audiences, whose laughter was recorded and then mixed into each episode's soundtrack to provide a laugh track and avoid the use of [[laugh track|canned laughter]].<ref name="30 Years LOTSW" /><ref name="Bright and Ross 117" />

The show used actual businesses and homes in and around Holmfirth, and Nora Batty's house, which is actually a Summer Wine themed holiday cottage where members of the public can stay in a replica of Nora Batty's home.<ref name="30 Years LOTSW" /> Although this helped the Holmfirth economy and made it a [[tourist destination]], tensions occasionally surfaced between Holmfirth residents and the crew. One such incident, regarding compensation to local residents, prompted producer Bell to consider not filming in Holmfirth any more. The situation escalated to the point that Bell filmed a scene in which Nora Batty put her house up for sale.<ref name="The Huddersfield Daily Examiner 2005-08-16">{{cite news | first=Neil | last=Atkinson | title=Is it the Last of Summer Wine? | date=16 August 2005 | url =https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/lifestyle/travel/last-summer-wine-5077769 | work =The Huddersfield Daily Examiner | access-date = 5 April 2017 }}</ref>