Auto Focus

Auto Focus (2002)

10 mistakes - chronological order

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Factual error: The issue of "Guideposts" shown by Crane's interviewers is from the early '90s.

Factual error: Crane's daughters play with a bent-armed Barbie doll; all such dolls of that era had straight arms.

Continuity mistake: Bob puts his hand on his wife's shoulder, in the next shot, it is by his side.

Factual error: Crane's kitchen phone in the '60s has a modern (at least 1970s) modular cord on the handset.

Visible crew/equipment: When Bob comes home and sees that Ann had been in his garage, - he walks into the kitchen via the door, but if you look at the walls, you can see the darkening shadows of the crew and equipment.

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Revealing mistake: When Bob Crane was playing drums in the club, the night that he told Patti he and John were going out - he CLEARLY isn't playing to the beat, as you can hear drum fills, and he just playing as hitting the drum once with his left stick.

ckbyers

Other mistake: In the scene in the KNX broadcast studio, a shot from the engineer's point-of-view shows VU meters with their needles not moving, even though Bob Crane is talking.

Deliberate mistake: Although much of Auto Focus revolves around the 1960s hit television series "Hogan's Heroes," the producers of this independent film could not work out a licensing agreement with CBS regarding the famous "Hogan's Heroes" theme music. As a result, the familiar "Hogan's Heroes" theme music is entirely absent from Auto Focus, replaced with contrived theme music that isn't even remotely similar to the original.

Charles Austin Miller

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Trivia: When "Auto Focus" debuted, Bob Crane's son, Scotty Crane, complained loudly that the film was completely inaccurate and misleading. Scotty said that, while his father had been a lifelong sex-addict who recorded and photographed sex acts as far back as 1956, he was not a church-goer (as depicted in the film), he never tried S&M (as depicted in the film), and that he only started socializing with John Henry Carpenter in 1975, long after the Hogan's Heroes TV series ended, just 3 years before the unsolved murder that took Bob Crane's life. The film jumbles all of these events out of chronological order, omitting factual events while fabricating pure fantasy events for no other reason than to sensationalize Crane's troubled life and death.

Charles Austin Miller

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