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Directed by Richard Donner, starring Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Margot Kidder, Marlon Brando
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Visible crew/equipment: Just after young Clark Kent jumps in front of the train, there is a close up of the train speeding by with a very visible camera in its reflection. (Time)
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Continuity: Kal-El's cradle arrives on earth, flies zooming past the Kents' car, which is driving in the opposite direction and crashes 500 meters behind the vehicle. The car keeps moving for about 200 meters and then pulls over. A brief shot shows an intact curb on the right. However, when Jonathan Kent gets out of the car, everything changes: The cradle has moved 700 meters and lays next to the car; and the immaculate field is now destroyed by a huge ditch. Submitted by Sacha
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Continuity: When leaving the Daily Planet for the first time together Clark gets stuck in the revolving door behind Lois. He lets her go through ahead of him and gets in the next section as the door revolves. Cut to the exterior of the Planet when they emerge (just before they meet Rex Reed) and Clark is in the same section of the revolving door as Lois.
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Continuity: When Luthor switches the snow machine off, a wide angle shows the chamber totally covered in snow and ice, but the close-up of the vents and the walls surrounding are spotless. Submitted by Sacha
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Revealing: When Lois is at the heliport, watch the wind flag on the left: when the helicopter arrives, the roaring wind from the vanes makes the flag move up and get stiff. In the close-ups, you keep on hearing the sound but the vanes are off screen. Watch and you'll see the wind flag is down, thus revealing that the engine is off and that the sound we are hearing is fake. Submitted by Sacha
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Other: In the scene where Superman and Lois are flying through the clouds, there are a number of shots in which we see Superman from Lois' point of view. If you look closely, you can see that Christopher Reeve is not being suspended in these shots, but is, in fact, kneeling to look as though he is flying. You can tell by the profile of the red trunks.
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Continuity: The telephone poles close to the gap on the railroad disappear in the wide angles. Submitted by Sacha
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Audio problem: In the plane, when the Captain says "I'm not too god, what do you think" his lips aren't moving. Submitted by Sacha
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Continuity: When Ms. Teschmaker rests her arm on the file cabinet, a white roll of paper appears and disappears. Submitted by Sacha
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Continuity: At the police station, behind the fat cop there's a young cop picking up papers who walks to the left and stays there for a while. When the angle changes he reappears in the previous spot, repeating all the movements. Submitted by Sacha
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Continuity: On the Golden Gate, the blue beetle skids and stops with the rear tyres on top of a painted white line. A frame later the car is on the middle on the white line. Submitted by Sacha
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Continuity: The lights on the heliport keep swapping from facing the ground to pointing at the sky between shots. Submitted by Sacha
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Continuity: Inside the cab arriving at the Daily Planet, the fruit stall has no van behind. Immediately afterwards, a van appears. Submitted by Sacha
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Continuity: In the extended version, when Superman talks with his father in the Fortress of Solitude about being a hero, one shot shows the crystals reaching up to Superman's waist. In the next shot they are at ankle level. Submitted by Sacha
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Continuity: When the train is about to derail, we see a bunch of goats and donkeys under the bridge, with a kid dressed in jeans and a blue shirt, and a bearded man with a white jacket. When the shot changes, the man is wearing the kids' clothes and the boy has vanished. Submitted by Sacha
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Continuity: At the heliport, a cork bulletin board on the wall appears and disappears between shots. Submitted by Sacha
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