Editing Fly Away Home (section)

==Production==
Two farms near [[Lindsay, Ontario|Lindsay in southeastern Ontario]] were used to recreate the Alden home.<ref name="Leading" /> [[Principal photography]] took place in 1995. The blacksmith shop constructed onsite for the filming of ''[[The Last Buffalo]]'' at Purple Hill, Ontario, was reused as part of the Alden homestead.<ref>{{cite web|last=Lishman |first=Bill |url=http://www.williamlishman.com/film.htm |title=William Lishman- Film |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718053318/http://www.williamlishman.com/film.htm |archive-date=2011-07-18 |website=williamlishman.com |access-date=May 9, 2011}}</ref>

[[Caleb Deschanel]], who had previously collaborated with director Carroll Ballard on the films ''[[The Black Stallion (film)|The Black Stallion]]'' and ''[[Never Cry Wolf (film)|Never Cry Wolf]]'', returned as director of photography for ''Fly Away Home''.<ref name="Virginian">{{cite news |last1=Vincent |first1=Mal |title="Fly Away Home" Turns Father Goose into Mother Goose |url=https://scholar.lib.vt.edu/VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1996/vp960915/09130085.htm |page=E1 |access-date=23 July 2024 |work=The Virginian-Pilot |date=September 15, 1996}}</ref>

[[Image:Fly Away Home aircraft.jpg|thumb|right| An example of an ultralight on display at the [[Western Canada Aviation Museum]] to publicize the film.]]

Two gliders were featured in the film: The [[UFM Easy Riser]] and the [[History of hang gliding|Cosmos Trike]]. The Easy Riser first appears as a foot-launched biplane hang glider. True to Lishman's real-life saga, modifications were made to improve the design including the addition of a motor and seat. Anna Paquin's character meanwhile flies an A-frame Cosmos Trike with a mock goose head mounted to the noseplate of the airframe and a fabric wing covering painted to resemble feathers (features Lishman wanted to add to his own Trike, but never did due to time). The Cosmos Trike was reportedly chosen for its safety, superior engine power, and increased wing size (a feature that was needed to fly slow enough for the birds).<ref name="lishman">{{cite web|url=http://williamlishman.com/flight.htm |title=Ultralight Aircraft |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091212231700/http://www.williamlishman.com/flight.htm |archive-date=2009-12-12 |website=williamlishman.com |access-date=March 20, 2010}}</ref>

The four-day trip home for the geese that would take them to Lake Ontario, over the Appalachians to Pennsylvania, Maryland, finally settling on the North Carolina Shores, had principal photography actually filmed nearly entirely at [[Port Perry]] and [[Sandbanks Provincial Park]], Ontario, Canada. Additional location shots were the city-fly-through in Toronto, Ontario, standing in for Baltimore, Maryland (CGI aircraft).<ref name="Leading">{{cite episode|title='Fly Away Home': Leading the Flock |series=HBO First Look |season=3 |number=6 |date=August 1996 |network=HBO}}</ref> At the conclusion of the production, Lishman led the 60 imprinted "actor-geese" in migration, to winter at the [[Tom Yawkey#Tom Yawkey Wildlife Center Heritage Preserve|Tom Yawkey Wildlife Center]] off the coast of [[Georgetown, South Carolina]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Lishman |first=Bill |date=2011 |title=Fly Away Home: Behind the scenes |url=http://www.operationmigration.org/fly_away_home.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031209122254/http://www.operationmigration.org/fly_away_home.html |archive-date=2003-12-09 |access-date=May 9, 2011 |website=operationmigration.org}}</ref>

While in production, the film was at first titled ''Flying Wild'', but was changed to ''Fly Away Home'' just weeks before its release in movie theaters. The original trailer has the title ''Flying Wild'',<ref>{{cite web |title=Flying Wild (1996) - Fly Away Home (1996) Trailer (VHS Capture) |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAyo4oTj-XI |website=YouTube |access-date=23 July 2024 |date=2014-11-09}}</ref> and can be found on certain VHS copies of ''[[Jumanji (film)|Jumanji]]'' from [[Sony Pictures Home Entertainment|Columbia TriStar Home Video]]; the [[French language|French]] version title (''<span dir="ltr" lang="fr">L'Envolée sauvage</span>'') is the translated version of this title.