The top mistakes in Silent Running http://www.moviemistakes.com/film5524 en Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:55:29 +0000 101116 Freeman Lowell has several cargo containers dumped off the spaceship, to make it appear the ship has suffered an accident. A wide shot shows the ship receding in the distance, with the containers rolling weightlessly in the foreground. As the foreground containers pass slightly in front of the more distant ones, they don't mask them; their images overlap. The containers were apparently composited into the shot with simple multiple exposures.