Editing Passport to Pimlico (section)

===Filming===
''Passport to Pimlico'' is set during a [[heatwave]] that occurred in Britain in 1947, but, despite this, filming took place during 1948's abnormally wet summer.<ref name="Guard photo">{{cite news|title=Passport to Pimlico: a behind the scenes tour – in pictures|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/gallery/2012/may/28/passport-to-pimlico-in-pictures|access-date=1 October 2016|work=The Guardian|date=28 May 2012}}</ref> The poor weather caused delays in production, which led to the film being over-time and over-budget.{{sfn|Sellers|2015|p=140}} Shooting started early each day, in an attempt to get the first successful shot completed before 9:00 am. An average of ten takes a day were taken, in an attempt to get two and a half minutes of usable film per day.{{sfn|Sellers|2015|p=145}}{{refn|By comparison, commercial filming practice in 2015 was to take an average of 40 takes a day with 10 seconds a day of usable film recorded.{{sfn|Sellers|2015|p=145}}|group= n}} There were arguments between Cornelius and Balcon throughout the production, because Balcon was unhappy with what he saw as poor direction. Cornelius left Ealing Studios after working on ''Passport to Pimlico'' and did not work for the studio again.{{sfn|Sellers|2015|p=141}}

The outdoor scenes were not shot in Pimlico, but about a mile away in [[Lambeth]]. A set was built on a large Second World War [[bombsite]] just south of the [[Lambeth Road]] at the junction of [[Hercules Road]]. At the conclusion of filming, the site had to be returned to the same bomb-damaged state as before, to enable the locals to claim [[War Damage Commission|war damage compensation]].<ref name="Guard photo" /> The site has since been built on, and now features 1960s municipal flats.{{sfn|Mitchell|2011|p=18}}