Continuity mistake: Miss Fisher as 'Fern' is posing as the magician's assistant. He does the (supposedly, before the man in the crowd calls out 20 as grand finale) last throw successfully and walks up to her to retrieve the knives. They are obviously positioned differently between shots. (00:30:30)
Continuity mistake: When Bert and Cec put their groceries down in the kitchen, Cec takes his hat off, Bert does not and shows no contempt about it. After a brief cut, once Miss Fisher is exiting the room Bert is now without his hat. (00:13:50)
Revealing mistake: When the band in the nightclub performs the made up song "Mr. Music Man", the suave Mr. Stone, the musician Miss Fisher ends up dancing with, is doing one heck of an hilariously incompetent job at faking to play an instrument, basically playing air-banjo strumming about 3 inches above where the chords are, and wildly off tempo. In the closing bit of the song (as the singer sings "To sin") he even moves his hand at the side of the strings and not above them. (00:03:30)
Continuity mistake: Early on, Miss Fisher and Doctor McMillan are strolling among the dockers in the background. But Miss Fisher hasn't disembarked the ship yet, that happens in the following scene. (00:01:45)
Factual error: Behind Jack and Miss Fisher as they are waiting to get an answer about the whereabouts of Jane's mother there's a wall calendar that has November 4 as a Tuesday - wrong for 1928, and also inconsistent with the other calendar seen in the episode, in the kitchen. (00:43:00)
Character mistake: When Hugh is talking with Dot making up a letter as he goes, he says that he's been going out with a wonderful girl for "nearly 6 months." This episode takes place merely a day after the previous, which was set in October. The first episodes when Dot and Hugh could start being called an item were set in August. That is nowhere near 6 months. (00:23:00)
Plot hole: Camellia is awake when she is being carried away, and later in the episode she fights using martial arts. It is unclear how even caught by surprise she was apprehended without a single sound being made except two times by doors slamming and not even a whimper...considering she is even not gagged.
Continuity mistake: Dot is going through the agony aunt mail: she mentions the woman with 9 kids who does not want to deny her hubby, and you can distinctly see her put back on the table her left hand, holding a letter. Cut, and that hand is now hovering above the table. (00:19:55)
Continuity mistake: During Miss Fisher's conversation with John/Giovanni/Miss Greenthumbs in the building stairway, when she asks him about Artemis he inhales from the cigarette. Smoke is present and visible, disappears in the reverse shot, back to full visibility as the original angle returns, and no smoke at all when we get back to the reverse shot. (00:15:35)
Character mistake: Striking conversation with the inspector, Miss Fisher asks him if he's still thinking about when he kissed her 'the other night'. The kiss happened in the previous episode during a police operation happening at 3 PM. Hardly "the other night." (00:06:40)
Murder in Montparnasse - S1-E7
Factual error: During scenes in the kitchen (when Bert and Cec hire Miss Fisher; when Butler the butler advises Dot about dealing with the hypocrite priest) a wall calendar is featured. It's nice that it shows the month of October, consistent with the continuity of the season, but it's not an October 1928 calendar, the days are all wrong. (00:21:25 - 00:27:15)
Murder in Montparnasse - S1-E7
Continuity mistake: When the mechanic puts his cheap cigar on the ashtray, it's an enormous, almost whole cigar in the close-up, leaning on top of the matchbox. When it is shown again a few seconds later, it's reduced to just a butt, lying at distance from the box. (00:25:00)
Murder in Montparnasse - S1-E7
Continuity mistake: As Jack and Hugh are questioning the bookie in the bar, Jack mentions he could be charged with murder. The guy, startled, asks "Murder? What?" across 2 shots. In the first, his left hand is under the table, in the second he is holding his hands together as he smokes. (00:09:45)
Ruddy Gore - S1-E6
Revealing mistake: It is revealed that the ghost apparitions come through thanks to projection over falling sand, but that's not the trick used in the actual movie shoot: no sand is falling and accumulating on the floor in the last ghost apparition (when we can see the floor for a while) and in the second apparition (to Miss Fisher backstage) the line of sand was in the wrong direction for it to act as screen.
Ruddy Gore - S1-E6
Factual error: Miss Fisher and Dot browse several issues of Table Talk, an actual Australian publication from the era depicted, and with the exact same font for the header. The cover layout is not at all like the original (it's contemporary and sexier) and they obviously glued newly printed covers to modern paperback magazines, because the actual Table Talk had very limited foliage (around 24 pages) while the magazines shown here are one inch thick. Moreover, a "June 15 1908" edition is mentioned, which was a Monday. Table Talk was a Thursday magazine.
Continuity mistake: When Miss Fisher gets face to face with Foyle for the first time, her arm goes from straight to slightly bent at the first cut after his mocking applause; in the reverse shot the arm is still straight and only then begins to curve. (00:39:30)
Continuity mistake: Jack and Hugh are checking out of the serial numbers of the banknotes. It's quite obvious during the sequence that Hugh has a couple of wads in his hands, then he is hands free, and then is holding the same wads as before. (00:39:30)
Continuity mistake: In the faraway shot, the snake is wrapped around the neck of the dead body full circle, while in the close-ups that follow and precede, the snake is draped across its neck and creeps up the right side of the deceased. (00:01:20)
Factual error: Miss Fisher and the crew on 21 December 1928 dance to the glorious rendition of "I'm Sailing On A Sunbeam" by Des Tooley featuring Frank Coughlan, playing a record that was released only in 1930.
Answer: Louisa's watch was broken during the struggle to get away from her attacker.
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