Continuity mistake: When Lila is packing her clothes, she has a black garment in her hands, but the next quick shot shows her hands empty.
Scott215
8th Oct 2024
Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1974)
8th Oct 2024
Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1974)
Factual error: Kolchak's narration has the episode's events begin in February in Chicago, but there is no snow, nor indication of cold weather.
8th Oct 2024
Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1974)
Visible crew/equipment: When Kolchak goes to visit Mr. Cahill in the mental hospital, the boom mike's shadow is visible in several shots.
22nd Sep 2024
Young Frankenstein (1974)
Revealing mistake: Before The Monster sits all the way down on the teeter-totter that launches Helga into the air, she begins to get airborne before The Monster settles his end of the teeter-totter all the way to the ground.
25th Jul 2024
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023)
Factual error: The German SS soldiers salute superior officers with "Sieg Heil!", which means, "Hail Victory." The proper salute would have been "Heil Hitler!", which was required for all branches of the German armed forces after the July 20th, 1944 bomb plot against Hitler.
25th Jul 2024
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023)
Continuity mistake: While Indy is fighting Colonel Weber on the roof of the train, Basil is pointing a pistol at them, and his grip on the pistol changes from a two-handed grip to a wrist-stabilizing grip as the shots change.
8th Jul 2024
Batman (1989)
Continuity mistake: As Lt. Eckhardt approaches Napier, Bob the Goon is behind Napier, polishing the upper part of the driver's side windshield of Napier's car. Also in the close-up of Napier. When the camera quickly shots to the long shot again, Bob is now working on the lower part of the windshield.
19th May 2024
Absolutely Anything (2015)
Trivia: The driver of the blue van who hits Simon Pegg on his bicycle is the film's director, Terry Jones.
6th May 2024
Absolutely Anything (2015)
Trivia: Look at the spaceship at the top of the junk pile behind the leader of the Intergalactic Society of Superior Beings. It is the same spaceship that scoops up Brian from "Monty Python's Life of Brian."
10th Apr 2024
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
Continuity mistake: When Wonka is leading the group down the stairs into his factory, Veruca's right arm changes position from her hand on the bannister to her entire forearm resting on it.
10th Apr 2024
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
Continuity mistake: A tree suddenly appears behind Grandpa Joe, Charlie, and the Beauregard's that wasn't there before, as they rise to see Wonka emerge from his factory.
5th Jan 2024
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989)
Continuity mistake: As Clark is stapling the Christmas lights to the house, there are bits of snow and ice on his left-hand glove in the close-ups. But in the longer shots of Clark, the glove has no snow and ice present.
24th Dec 2023
Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town (1970)
Continuity mistake: When the Winter Warlock's icy heart melts, he is holding a toy locomotive with its front showing, but the next shot shows the locomotive's rear showing.
5th Dec 2023
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
Continuity mistake: When Lou enters the classroom, the teacher's yardstick switches position from straight up and down to flat as the shot perspectives change.
9th Nov 2023
The Polar Express (2004)
8th Nov 2023
Elf (2003)
Deliberate mistake: In the orphanage scene, Santa's bag drops dead center in the fireplace. The noise of the impact gets baby Buddy's attention in a quick shot, and the camera shifts back to the fireplace. Now, the bag has shifted to the viewer's left when Santa's boots are coming down. The shift of the bag is presumably to make room for the boots coming down the chimney.
14th Jul 2023
Jonny Quest (1964)
Continuity mistake: As Race, Jonny, and Hadji manoeuvre the sub through the tunnel, the scenes inside the sub show Hadji on Race's right side, but shots outside the sub showing inside the sub through the portal show Hadji on Race's left side.
14th Jul 2023
Jonny Quest (1964)
Stupidity: The office Race is being held prisoner in has a thick wooden plank secured outside to prevent opening the door swinging to the outside, but the door was shown earlier opening to the inside. Furthermore, when Jonny rescues Race after lifting the plank, Race swings the door inside. Aside from the witch doctor guarding the shack, Race would not have been prevented from leaving.
3rd Jun 2023
Star Trek (1966)
The Conscience of the King - S1-E14
Continuity mistake: When Spock explains to McCoy his theory of Kodos' use of eugenics, the background behind Spock is a wall of red grating, but the shots of Spock speaking to McCoy alone (McCoy isn't in the shot) show a blue background wall with a control panel on it. (00:21:55)
3rd Jun 2023
Star Trek (1966)
The Conscience of the King - S1-E14
Continuity mistake: As Kirk asks the Enterprise's computer about the history of Anton the Actor and Kodos the Executioner, his hands change positions from being away from the computer's controls to near them, then clasped as the shots quick cut.
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