Movies where you can see things that shouldn't be there

[The Burgomaster]

There are many movies in which the camera accidentally picks up things that shouldn't be in the shot. For instance, a scene in a western might have an airplane flying in the distance, or someone in a Biblical epic might be wearing a wristwatch.

Can anyone list movies that have some of these "mistakes" that were captured by the camera?

[Fearless Freep]

I think "Peral Harbor" is notorious for having a lot of such anachornisms

[raj]

I didn't see it, but supposedly there's a car in the background of the chariot race in Ben Hur.

And of course the wires for the flying saucers show up in various b-movies (Plan 9 e.g.)

[Fearless Freep]

R2-D2 and C-3P0 show up in the hieroglyphs in the Well Of Souls in "Raiders Of the Lost Ark"; an intentional anachronism

[kirk]

The boom mike is seen in a LOT of scenes in Dolemite.  It has more screen time than most of the actors.

In The Great Outdoors, you can see the animal trainer's stick that is prodding the bear in a few scenes.

In Terminator 2, you can see the power cable for the minigun while Arnie is shooting the police cars.

The textbooks in Dead Poets Society were current editions, not the books that would have been used in the 1950s.

Kirk

[Bernie]

In the opening scene of Roger Corman's The Gunslinger, the camera pans too early and too far, exposing two stunt men sitting idly on horses; suddenly they spring into action & race around the corner into the center of the shot as if they'd been riding for hours!  A moment immortalized in the MST3K presentation of the film with Joel's line "Cue the horses!"

In Governor Arnold's first movie, Hercules in New York, you can hear car sounds (including very audible horn honks!) in the scenes that supposedly take place on Mt. Olympus.

[kriegerg69]

kirk wrote:

> The boom mike is seen in a LOT of scenes in Dolemite.  It has
> more screen time than most of the actors.

> Kirk

One thing that so many people over the years have forgotten when reviewing a movie and saying things like "the microphone is visible at the top of the screen" is that such a thing was never MEANT to be seen. Such reviews and comments are usually based on a television viewing or a full-frame video viewing. Bear in mind that for many films shot in 1.85:1 MATTED widescreen, the top and bottom of the image would be masked theatrically in the projector, and the mike would NEVER, nor was it MEANT to, be seen.

[jmc]

A trampoline is briefly visible during on the shots in DAWN OF THE DEAD, as is some traffic on one of the streets near the mall.  But it's something you probably won't see unless you know about it beforehand.....

[Conrad]

There's supposed to be a moving car in the background of the "deserted London" shots at the start of 28 Days Later; I've looked closely but can't say I've seen it.

[Mr_Vindictive]

In the beginning of The Shipping News, it's supposed to be taking place about a decade ago but if you look in the background when Quyole pulls into the gas station there is a brand new shiny Ford Focus across the road.

Glaringly obvious.

[The Burgomaster]

In the movie THE VALACHI PAPERS, there is a scene with Charles Bronson driving a car. I believe the scene takes place in the 1930s or 1940s. I'm pretty sure that you can see a car in the background that looks like a sporty car from the 1960s or 70s . . . a Ford Mustang or a Dodge Challenger or something.

[dean]

isn't gladiator infamous for stuff like this?  i'm sure there's a site out there devoted to all the crap that goes on in that movie [like i think jet trails, wristwatches and tire tracks etc]

[AndyC]

In Eegah! there are an awful lot of tire tracks in the remote desert.

[wickednick]

In Three Men and a Baby you can see some cardbord cut outs of the actors in one of the rooms.This is were the myth about you being able to see the ghost of a little boy in the movie came from.And what is the truth about Wizard of Oz.Is it true that someone killed them selves in the apple orchard and you can see him hanging from a tree or is it just another myth.Ive heard that in the first Star Wars movies you can see things like flying shoes and golfballs when they are going through areas with asteroids.

[frannie]

don't know about the golfballs or shoes, but when the stormtroopers enter the control room where c3po and r2d2 are hiding one of them runs into the hanging door.