Continuity and C**k Ups on TV

[figbat]

Cars again - a lot of interior shots have the rear view mirror removed and often the front seat headrests too.

 

[matticus]

Cars again - a lot of interior shots have the rear view mirror removed and often the front seat headrests too.

... and rarely have a satnav cluttering up the view. Or sweet wrappers all over the dash. Or tatty road atlas ... dog hairs ...

 

[byegad]

And in Mosquito squadron where the Nazzie tank is actually a painted up Sherman.

And Battle of Britain, the outside of Robert Shaw's house has a modern doorbell button.

Yes that bellpush is nearly as bad as the various late model Spitfires and all the Me109 and He111s tooling around with Merlin engines.

 

[cougie uk]

People always manage to park outside the building they're visiting.
People answer the phone immediately and never say bye bye.
Coffee cups are always empty for continuity.
Actors are just pretending to be different people.

 

[matticus]

People always manage to park outside the building they're visiting.

Their insurance might go up if they parked inside the buildings too often.

 

[Profpointy]

Every episode of Thunderbirds I'm convinced they used the same film of the rockets being launched rather than the subsequent launches for the actual rescue portrayed in the episode

 

[matticus]

In virtually every car chase in the original Starsky and Hutch series they drive around the same corner and the same truck is in the background...

Are you talking about the opening title sequence? Hmm?

 

[MichaelW2]

People always manage to park outside the building they're visiting.
People answer the phone immediately and never say bye bye.
Coffee cups are always empty for continuity.
Actors are just pretending to be different people.

But mobile phones never work so people have to resort to desperate high speed car journeys across town to get there Just In Time.

About actors: thanks, everyday is a school day.

 

[markemark]

There's no way the plumber managed to fix the leaking tap with that sized spanner in Dirty Hot Nymphos 8.

 

[Profpointy]

But mobile phones never work so people have to resort to desperate high speed car journeys across town to get there Just In Time.

About actors: thanks, everyday is a school day.

But mobile phones in films do miraculously work out in the woods or in basements or mines deep underground

 

[DRM]

There's no way the plumber managed to fix the leaking tap with that sized spanner in Dirty Hot Nymphos 8.

Thought that was in confessions of a plumber

 

[Paulus]

I was watching Endeavour (set between 1965 & 1971) there was a Raleigh Chopper in the background which you might expect as they were first released in 1969 however on closer inspection it was the modern day incarnation with the seperate seat and back rest!

Also in Endeavour, a bus garage in Oxford has ex LT Routemasters running around, with fluorescent lighting instead of light bulbs, and in the background are more Routemasters still with the London buses white roundal on the sides.

Also period dramas set before 1948 often have steam locomotives in BR livery, and totally in the wrong part of the county for the type of locomotive.

 

[MichaelW2]

Thought that was in confessions of a plumber

Yes, Dirty Hot Nymphos 8 was the one with the cheerleaders and the bus driver. The whole DHN franchise became pretty stale and derivative after DHN3: Cheerleaders In Space.

 

[markemark]

Yes, Dirty Hot Nymphos 8 was the one with the cheerleaders and the bus driver. The whole DHN franchise became pretty stale and derivative after DHN3: Cheerleaders In Space.

J. J. Abrams is being rumoured to direct a reboot - The Dirty Hot Nymphos so let's see how that goes.

 

[classic33]

In "Apollo 13", a Lockheed-Martin coffee mug is visible in several scenes, on flight director Gene Kranz' desk.
Lockheed Martin was not formed until 1995 with the merger of Lockheed Corporation and Martin Marietta.