Visible crew/equipment: When Verdie shows Harley the overalls for Jody, the reflection of the boom pole and mic are visible on the vehicle surface in the overhead shots. (00:19:25)
Super Grover
5th Sep 2019
The Waltons (1972)
5th Sep 2019
The Waltons (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: After Harley tells Verdie that he's an auto mechanic but things are slow, when Jim-Bob and Elizabeth rush over to John-Boy to tell him they can keep the peach tree, the shadow of the moving boom pole and mic is visible on the ground beside Jim-Bob, at the right side of the screen. (00:06:35)
5th Sep 2019
The Waltons (1972)
Factual error: When Mary Ellen brings G.W. into the woods to practice dancing together, she opens up a magazine and shows him a movie still of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. The problem is the photo is a still from Fred and Ginger's dance in the movie "Swing Time" (at 00:28:00 within that movie) which premiered August 1936 (and was filmed that year), but this episode takes place more than two years prior, in early 1934. (00:59:20)
5th Sep 2019
The Waltons (1972)
Continuity mistake: When Olivia asks John to go with them to Sunday services, in the wideshots Erin is sitting on the arm chair and Jim-Bob is rocking away in the rocking chair, but in the few shots facing John or Zeb we see the rocking chair and arm chair are empty. (00:04:10)
5th Sep 2019
The Waltons (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: When the Baldwin sisters drive up to the Walton house with a gift, the reflections of location lighting and a few crew members are visible on their car's windows. (01:07:40)
5th Sep 2019
The Waltons (1972)
Factual error: After Olivia realises she has polio, when John goes downstairs the radio is on and we hear an excerpt from President Roosevelt's fireside chat about upcoming Labor Day. The problem is this aired on the radio right before Labor Day in 1936, but Olivia contracts polio very early 1934. (00:22:35)
5th Sep 2019
The Waltons (1972)
Continuity mistake: The Baldwin sisters buy Olivia a wooden wheelchair, and when Zeb brings it into the bedroom the camera tilts downward and we see Zeb's legs behind the chair. Later, after Mary Ellen and G.W. dance for Olivia it cuts to a closeup of the wheelchair, but it's actually the earlier shot because we still see Zeb's legs and he's not even in the room. (01:09:10 - 01:14:20)
5th Sep 2019
The Waltons (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: While Mary Ellen walks home with G.W. after the Sunday services they're alone, and when G.W. tells her, "People learn how to dance," right at the start of the next shot we can see the blue shirt of a crew member at the lower left side of the screen. (00:08:30)
5th Sep 2019
The Waltons (1972)
The Townie - S1-E24
Visible crew/equipment: When John-Boy picks up Sarah at her house and also later when he brings her back, the reflections of crew members and equipment are visible in the window, behind the clothesline. (00:02:10 - 00:08:50)
5th Sep 2019
The Waltons (1972)
The Townie - S1-E24
Continuity mistake: When John-Boy goes to Sarah's house to pick her up for the double-feature picture show, he tells her mother good morning and we see the shadows being cast outside The House. Later, after the double feature, when John-Boy and Sarah get back to her house in the afternoon, all of the shadows are still being cast in precisely the same direction as that morning, which is impossible. Also, in Sarah's closeup after she gets out of the truck and when John-Boy rushes after her, the white fence's shadow is completely different than the previous and following wideshots. (00:02:00 - 00:08:35)
5th Sep 2019
The Waltons (1972)
The Townie - S1-E24
Factual error: After John-Boy and Sarah's date at the double-feature, during the ride back home when John-Boy tells Sarah that there's nothing to makeup and he's not mad, through the windshield 1970s vehicles are parked directly ahead of John's pickup truck. (00:08:25)
5th Sep 2019
The Waltons (1972)
The Townie - S1-E24
Deliberate mistake: When Ted sees Ep's roadblock he turns the LaSalle Coupe around to avoid the sheriff, and the next wideshot of Ted and Sarah driving the LaSalle down the road is a flipped shot, note everything is backwards. (00:36:45)
5th Sep 2019
The Waltons (1972)
The Townie - S1-E24
Continuity mistake: When Sarah leaves with Ted in the LaSalle Coupe so they can get married, the mirror attached to the top of the windshield disappears and reappears in some shots during their drive. (00:36:10)
5th Sep 2019
The Waltons (1972)
The Reunion - S1-E14
Continuity mistake: After Emily Baldwin makes the lemonade toast, when it cuts to the Walton house John-Boy tells everyone to close their eyes. In Olivia's closeup we can see the wheeled metal legs of the washing machine base between her and Elizabeth, but it's not until three shots later that Ike and John bring the machine in from the porch. (00:47:00)
5th Sep 2019
The Waltons (1972)
The Reunion - S1-E14
Visible crew/equipment: While Esther and Sheriff Bridges are waiting for Zeb and John-Boy to get home, the white tape mark is visible on the floor under the table, where John-Boy will stand a moment later. (00:25:35)
5th Sep 2019
The Waltons (1972)
The Reunion - S1-E14
Visible crew/equipment: After Miss Emily tells her sister to serve some more Recipe to Homer and Zeb, when it cuts to the Walton house the set's lighting equipment is visible at the left side of the screen. (00:15:45)
5th Sep 2019
The Waltons (1972)
The Dust Bowl Cousins - S1-E13
Visible crew/equipment: After Ham gives John the tobacco he stole and lies about paying, when they get into the truck the reflections of some crew members are visible on the windshield as they drive off. (00:25:30)
5th Sep 2019
The Waltons (1972)
The Dust Bowl Cousins - S1-E13
Other mistake: After the fight, when John walks over to John-Boy, who's at the kitchen sink, and tells him to explain what it's all about, the camera pans a bit too far to the right so we can see the unfinished edge of the cabinet at the right. It's unfinished because the adjacent shorter double cabinet (with a glass door) which should be there is missing in this shot, then that cabinet is back when John-Boy turns around in a following shot. (00:42:15)
5th Sep 2019
The Waltons (1972)
Trivia: There is a flashing red light seen at the left side of the screen while A.J. is on the porch with John-Boy and John, and then at the end when John-Boy is writing in his journal, we see the flashing light's reflection on the window. (00:12:05 - 00:48:15)
5th Sep 2019
The Waltons (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: After the children go off to collect berries while Jim-Bob stays home, when it cuts back to John-Boy and A.J. with the truck, the reflection of the camera operator is visible at the center of the windshield. (00:06:30)
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