Hugo

Continuity mistake: When Hugo is walking with his uncle, carrying the automaton, the way he holds it differs between the first and second shot.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: The position of the automaton's arm when writing for the first time is inconsistent between shots.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Hugo is outside Isabelle's place for the first time, he is standing by the middle of a brick column. When the angle changes he is by its side.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When the inspector crashes against the band of musicians, the mess on the floor differs between the first shot and the one following.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When the kids are reading in the library and the author shows up, the kids flip all the pages and then the book appears pointing upwards or downwards.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When the inspector first approaches the flower girl, a luggage porter passes behind him. When the angle changes, the man is meters behind, repeating his previous movements.

Sacha

Revealing mistake: At the end of the first chase scene with Hugo, the Inspector and the doberman, Hugo escapes by climbing up and across a train trestle that goes over the tracks. In the overhead shot of Hugo going over the tracks, as he is walking, you can see a safety harness that is coming from his waist and to his left, attaching to a horizontal pole.

bonniebonita

Continuity mistake: After Hugo and Isabelle see the picture of the moon printed on the book, their hands alternate between being on the book, to away from the book, between angles.

Sacha

Revealing mistake: When the automaton starts drawing, a thick black piece suddenly appears behind the tip of the pen, most likely some sort of mechanism, or a piece of lead to allow for the drawing to be made.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: After Frick gives the Dachshund, the Inspector looks at his watch and puts it in his pocket. When the angle changes, he is looking at his watch again and repeating all previous movements.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: After Hugo's been saved by the inspector, he holds onto the automaton while being threatened by the cop. Méliès arrives and shouts, and for a brief moment the way Hugo holds the automaton completely changes.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: The first time the doberman dog chases Hugo, it enters a hallway and skids. The passers-by behind differ between shots.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Hugo gives Mrs. Méliès the drawing, her hands change positions between the wide and the close-up angles.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: After the automaton stops, Hugo slouches on a sofa. His position differs completely between one frame and another.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: In the scene where the automaton stops drawing in Hugo's lair, in a close up there is a mysterious red spot on our right of Hugo's chin, but in the rest of the movie the spot is gone.

Isabelle: This might be an adventure, and I've never had one before - outside of books, at least.

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Trivia: Director Martin Scorsese cameos as Méliès' photographer when he opens his studio.

Sacha

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Question: Why does the Station Inspector chase children who are on their own and threaten to send them to an Orphanage? Is that what it was like in the 1930s?

Luka Keats

Answer: He's not making it a point to chase down random children - he's like a security officer at an airport. It's his job to apprehend thieves and troublemakers and keep the station safe, and he only threatens to send children to the orphanage if they don't have parents for him to return them to. Also, it's implied once he finally apprehends Hugo that his particular harshness toward orphans (and most of his character flaws in general) is due to apparently having been one himself. He spells out the kinds of lessons he was forced to learn by growing up without a family, explaining how he became so cold, bitter, and antisocial.

Chosen answer: It is more than likely an early form of our modern day child protection. Just as today if children are found to be at risk, they can be and are taken away by social services and put into foster care. In the film, orphans may have been seen as a plague in an area that attracts posh looking people in stark contrast to urchins in rags eating out of bins. Most European orphanages/care homes/hospices/whatever you want to call them at that time were no better than anything depicted in Charles Dickens 50 years previously.

Neil Jones

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