Editing Billy Elliot (section)

===Filming===
[[File:Avon Street, Easington Colliery.jpg|thumb|Terraced homes on Avon Street, [[Easington Colliery]], were used for filming, where Andrew and Alnwick Streets once stood. |alt=Terraced homes on Avon Street|195x195px]]
[[Principal photography]] lasted seven weeks, beginning in August 1999.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":8">{{Cite web|url=http://cinema.com/articles/160/billy-elliot-production-notes.phtml|title=Billy Elliot : Production Notes|website=cinema.com|access-date=2020-04-03}}</ref> Most of the film, including the interior of the Elliot home at 5 Alnwick Street, was shot on location in the [[Easington Colliery]] area, with the producers using over 400 locals as extras.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/sep/28/billy-elliot-musical-easington-village-screening |title=Village shares its Billy Elliot stories at live screening of West End show |work=[[The Guardian]] |publisher=Guardian News and Media |date=28 September 2014 |access-date=9 April 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180410072410/https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/sep/28/billy-elliot-musical-easington-village-screening |archive-date=10 April 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref> The mining scenes were filmed at the [[Ellington Colliery|Ellington]] and [[Lynemouth Colliery]] in [[Northumberland]], with some filming in [[Dawdon]], [[Middlesbrough]] and Newcastle upon Tyne.<ref name="bbctyne_feature">{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/tyne/content/articles/2006/04/07/hollywood_on_tyne_billy_elliot_04_2006_feature.shtml|title=Feature: Billy Elliot|date=17 October 2006|work=BBC Tyne|publisher=[[BBC]]|access-date=6 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629123134/http://www.bbc.co.uk/tyne/content/articles/2006/04/07/hollywood_on_tyne_billy_elliot_04_2006_feature.shtml|archive-date=29 June 2011|url-status=live}}</ref> Andrew Street and Alnwick Street, where the characters live, were two of several streets demolished in 2003 after becoming [[Urban decay|derelict]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/2386705.stm|title=Billy Elliott's house to be bulldozed|date=1 November 2002|website=BBC|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180410074943/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/2386705.stm|archive-date=10 April 2018|access-date=9 April 2018}}</ref> The cemetery scene was filmed at Lynemouth Cemetery.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Dying+for+someone+to+take+care+of+cemetery%3B+PLEA+FOR+LANDOWNERS+TO...-a0181664854 |title=Dying for someone to take care of cemetery; Plea for landowners to clean up overgrown graveyard |work=[[Evening Chronicle]] |publisher=[[Trinity Mirror]] |date=22 July 2008 |access-date=9 April 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180410072235/https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Dying+for+someone+to+take+care+of+cemetery%3B+PLEA+FOR+LANDOWNERS+TO...-a0181664854 |archive-date=10 April 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref> School scenes were filmed in [[Langley Park, County Durham|Langley Park]] Primary School.<ref name="locations">{{Cite web|url=http://www.movie-locations.com/movies/b/Billy-Elliot.php|title=Filming Locations for Billy Elliot (2000)|website=The Worldwide Guide to Movie Locations|access-date=2020-01-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200101130142/http://www.movie-locations.com/movies/b/Billy-Elliot.php|archive-date=1 January 2020|url-status=live}}</ref> Other filming locations include the Green Drive Railway Viaduct in [[Seaham]], [[Tees Transporter Bridge]], [[New Wardour Castle]] and [[Theatre Royal Haymarket|Theatre Royal]] in [[Haymarket, London|Haymarket]].<ref name="locations" /><ref name="reel">{{Cite web|url=https://www.reelstreets.com/films/billy-elliot/|title=Reelstreets {{!}} Billy Elliot|website=www.reelstreets.com|access-date=2020-01-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200101130143/https://www.reelstreets.com/films/billy-elliot/|archive-date=1 January 2020|url-status=live}}</ref>

Daldry remarked in an interview: "The shooting schedule was a nightmare; we only had seven weeks. Kids can only work nine to five and you can't work Saturdays. And the kid had to dance the whole time. So it was tight."<ref name=":0" /> Producer Jon Finn spoke of the difficulties of seeking filming locations: "We didn't realise how hard it would be to find working [[Open-pit mining|pits]]."<ref name=":8" />