Jack Vaughan

31st Aug 2020

The Changeling (1980)

Visible crew/equipment: When John and Claire are listening to the music box the camera pans to Claire. If you look behind her in one of the small mirrors you can see the camera and operator reflected. (00:35:10)

Jack Vaughan

31st Aug 2020

The Changeling (1980)

Continuity mistake: When John finds the diary in the hidden attic room the date on the front reads "January 1909", however later on when Claire reads it she says "January 4th 1909." (00:33:55 - 00:36:38)

Jack Vaughan

31st Aug 2020

The Changeling (1980)

Visible crew/equipment: When John first enters the hidden attic room you can see the shadow of a crew member in the bottom left of the screen as the camera pulls back. (00:32:49)

Jack Vaughan

31st Aug 2020

The Changeling (1980)

Continuity mistake: When John is removing the shelves, in front of the hidden door, almost all the clutter vanishes after he removes the first shelf. It would have taken him a lot longer. (00:30:27)

Jack Vaughan

31st Aug 2020

The Changeling (1980)

Visible crew/equipment: When Claire drops off some pictures for John and says she has to leave you can see the shadow of the camera operator on the door frame (right side of screen) as the camera pulls back. You can also see the boom microphone reflected in one of the small windows to the right of John's head. (00:20:33)

Jack Vaughan

31st Aug 2020

The Changeling (1980)

Visible crew/equipment: When Claire is showing John the house for the first time you can see the shadow of the camera on the tablecloth on top of the piano when John approaches it. (00:09:57)

Jack Vaughan

31st Aug 2020

The Changeling (1980)

Visible crew/equipment: When John is playing the piano, after the door opens by itself in the music room, there is a shot that revolves around him. If you look in the large mirror in front of the piano you can see the pole of the boom microphone reflected (behind the chandelier). (00:19:21)

Jack Vaughan

31st Aug 2020

The Changeling (1980)

Continuity mistake: When John is pushing his car through the snow (with his wife and daughter) you can see the snow on the road is thick and solid. When John enters the phone box the snow suddenly becomes very slushy and muddy. (00:01:30)

Jack Vaughan

31st Aug 2020

The Great Silence (1968)

Continuity mistake: When Loco punches Silence at the bar his hat falls off, however cut to Silence lying on the floor and his hat is still on his head. (00:57:55)

Jack Vaughan

31st Aug 2020

The Great Silence (1968)

Continuity mistake: Throughout the Snow Hill town scenes the amount of snow falling changes frequently from shot to shot, often most noticeable from wide to close-up shots.

Jack Vaughan

31st Aug 2020

The Great Silence (1968)

Continuity mistake: Throughout the stagecoach scene (when Silence meets the Sheriff and Loco) the number of horses attached to the back of the coach changes a number of times. Sometimes there is one horse, sometimes two. (00:25:44)

Jack Vaughan

31st Aug 2020

The Great Silence (1968)

Revealing mistake: When Loco is tying up the hands of one of his dead bounties (as the stagecoach with Sheriff and Silence turns up to collect them) you can see the breath of the other "dead" man in the cold air. (00:28:38)

Jack Vaughan

31st Aug 2020

The Great Silence (1968)

Factual error: When Pauline is burying her husband in the cemetery there is a shot of a mountain with vultures swarming around it and an antenna mast is visible on top of the mountain. (00:24:18)

Jack Vaughan

31st Aug 2020

The Great Silence (1968)

Revealing mistake: At the beginning of the opening title sequence if you look behind Silence as he rides through the snow covered forest you can see what looks like a couple of skiers whizz by. (00:05:34)

Jack Vaughan

Audio problem: When Montgomery, Parker and Ruth find Lota (The Panther Woman) dead, Montgomery says they should leave her body and escape. Parker turns to him and he makes some kind of objection however there is no audio. (01:08:40)

Jack Vaughan

Revealing mistake: During the flashback sequence when Gunbei's double is decapitated, his severed head hits the floor but you can see that the actor's head is still inside his clothing. His top has been pulled over his head to make it look like his head has been cut off. It's even more obvious in the wider shot right after. (00:27:42)

Jack Vaughan

Revealing mistake: Throughout the film, whenever there is a close-up of the face of a male character, you can often see the stitching where their hairpiece is sewn into their real hair.

Jack Vaughan

Visible crew/equipment: When Cathy is being slowly drowned in the hot tub there is a shot were we see Braden's tattooed henchman playing around with his nunchucks and just above his head you can see a clear shadow of the boom mic dip into the shot and is then quickly pulled away again. (01:09:19)

Jack Vaughan

Visible crew/equipment: During the final fight between Cho and Braden on the rooftop, Braden sets off a smoke bomb and disappears, when Cho jumps up the chain link fence in search of him there is some kind of equipment attached to the bottom right of the camera lens. (01:15:47)

Jack Vaughan

Revealing mistake: When Cho is climbing up the building near the end of the film the whole wall shakes each time he presses the claws into the concrete, revealing some kind of substitute was used for the brickwork. (01:07:17)

Jack Vaughan

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