Visible crew/equipment: When Palantine is walking through the crowd, several extra don't look at all where he is supposed to be, but at the camera, either staring directly at it breaking 4th wall when it's in De Niro's close-ups, or even more blatantly turning around (and away from the Senator) to look up where the camera crane is. (01:36:35)
Sammo
19th Mar 2020
Taxi Driver (1976)
19th Mar 2020
Taxi Driver (1976)
Visible crew/equipment: Travis Bickle got all geared up to go kill the senator. There's an opening panning shot of Charles Palantine arriving at the location. As the relatively small scope of the meeting implies, but also as shown in the rest of the scene, there's no camera crew following Palantine, no big crane rig or anything. Yet you can easily spot people in this crowd who don't care about the Senator but look at the movie camera. One of the followers is particularly hilarious; on the left of the frame, he keeps waving his hand at the camera, tries to follow Palantine and direct the gesture at him, and then goes back to signaling the camera. (01:33:50)
19th Mar 2020
Taxi Driver (1976)
Visible crew/equipment: Travis clears out because the policeman told him he can't park there and so he starts the car and drives. Everyone in the crowd looks (many turn around explicitly and ) as he passes by, in particular looking right where the camera car in front of the taxi is. The senator is supposed to talk in a different direction, where De Niro is looking. (01:12:55)
19th Mar 2020
Relic Hunter (1999)
Visible crew/equipment: When Sydney taps the shoulder of the baddie who nearly disarmed Nigel, a strong light is cast on his face just before the cut. Nobody was supposed to point a flashlight or a torch at the fight. (00:38:15)
21st Feb 2020
A Fall from Grace (2020)
Visible crew/equipment: The diner flashback has possibly one of the worst handling of extras ever. The lady behind Crystal Fox keeps glancing at the camera and playing with her food in very unnatural fashion, but it's the guy with glasses behind Mehcad Brooks that truly shines; throughout the scene he drinks from an empty glass and, even more obvious, eats invisible food from his fork, usually throwing a glance right at the camera every time he does so, looking like he's about to crack into a laugh at the absurdity of it. It's such a bad performance that one really wonders if he was trolling Tyler Perry or something. (00:32:25)
28th Dec 2019
The Brass Bottle (1964)
Visible crew/equipment: An angry aspiring home buyer tosses a tomato inside the office of Fakrash and Ventimore, but the rancid veggie boomerangs on him when the genie summoning his powers reverses the flow of time causing the tomato to fly where it came from. Well, that's the idea, while in fact you can see a literal stagehand actually throwing the tomato in the actor's face. (01:17:55)
18th Dec 2019
6 Underground (2019)
Visible crew/equipment: After 5's blood facial, the gang is driving fast through Florence's small streets. Look out for the moment when Dave Franco says "That's my problem, I'm just getting warmed up." He does a right turn, and we are shown a POV of the villains shooting. Mounted on the car, you can see an additional GoPro-like mini-camera. (00:08:20)
22nd Nov 2019
A Fine Mess (1986)
Visible crew/equipment: Binky and Turnip chase the protagonists after they cashed in. They crash into a toy stall, with the crash shown in a quasi-POV shot. To get that shot, a camera was mounted inside the car, obviously. The problem is, for the next 3 cuts, you can see that camera. (00:27:50)
22nd Nov 2019
A Fine Mess (1986)
Visible crew/equipment: The two protagonists cash in the win and are running from the goons who chase them. The car of the two baddies is parked outside. During the sequence when the car loses the second door, you can see reflected with great detail the camera crew and stage lights, right in the side of the car. (00:26:50)
9th Oct 2019
Shaft in Africa (1973)
Visible crew/equipment: When the camera moves in showing the dead short guy in drag killed in the toilet, on the toilet is the shadow of the moving camera. (00:29:24)
7th Oct 2019
Stuber (2019)
Visible crew/equipment: Amo just passed out in the back of the car. Vic opens the front door to sit in the passenger seat; in the window, the boom mike is reflected. (00:39:00)
27th Sep 2019
The African Queen (1951)
Visible crew/equipment: When Rose is calling his brother who is working the burnt out ground of the village, in the long shot the man stands up straight as she approaches, while in the close-up, Robert Morley is still more hunched over. And really, the person in the long shot does not even look like Robert Morley, but a body double. (00:13:15)
24th Sep 2019
The Apartment (1960)
Visible crew/equipment: Randomly, a big moving shadow is cast on the underside of the flight of stairs between Daxter's apartment and the (unseen) second floor when he is unlocking the door of his flat after meeting his landlady that warned him about gas. It does not match Jack Lemmon's motions. (01:37:10)
21st Sep 2019
The African Queen (1951)
Visible crew/equipment: Look closely the bottom of the screen when Rose screams seeing the leeches on Charlie: some black piece of equipment (it's not a stain on film or lens) pops up slightly and hovers a little before going out of frame again. (01:17:50)
21st Sep 2019
The Dead Don't Die (2019)
Visible crew/equipment: At the gas stop, Zoe picks up the Sturgill Simpson CD, and the owner once more pitches it ("That's a really good CD"). There's a boom mic at the top left corner of the screen. (00:41:58)
7th Sep 2019
Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989)
Visible crew/equipment: At the very end of the episode, as Poirot's car drives off headed to the harbor, filming equipment is neatly reflected in the door. (00:51:40)
28th Aug 2019
CHIPS (2017)
Visible crew/equipment: When Jon passes by Ponch who roadblocked the street ineffectively, on the front of his bike you can see the reflection of the camera rig. (00:42:00)
21st Aug 2019
Aladdin (2019)
Visible crew/equipment: Aladdin is running away from the guards with Jasmine: he counts to 3 and jumps from a roof. In the overhead shot there's an extra mat on the landing point to cushion his tumble and roll, which disappears in the following shot. Very visible, being white and along the parapet. (00:10:30)
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