... above the field. The camera shot is a 'long-shot', focusing on the force's high position and great number, and therefore making the officers seem superior. The police are shown here to be a nameless, unknown body. It seems as though the habitants of the district are used to, and have become familiar with, the seemingly strong force surrounding the community. Billy ignores the police, and they do not see him as they plan another day controlling the picket line and the increasing number of miners encompassed in the violent resistance to the strike-breakers, including Tony and Mr. Elliot. Billy, much to the disgust of the father, is interested in ballet dancing and secretly attends lesson. As he returns home one day with his friend Debbie, the ballet teacher's daughter, the camera assumes the form of a mid-shot combined with a two-shot favouring Billy in the foreground. As she walks, Debbie ...

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