Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site kontron.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!pesnta!pertec!kontron!cramer From: cramer@kontron.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: Re: What's the word for a 1972 car appearing in a film set in 1950? Message-ID: <303@kontron.UUCP> Date: Fri, 28-Jun-85 20:23:58 EDT Article-I.D.: kontron.303 Posted: Fri Jun 28 20:23:58 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 30-Jun-85 00:28:30 EDT References: <5143@elsie.UUCP> <329@petfe.UUCP> <1784@sunybcs.UUCP> <139@telesoft.UUCP> <155@utflis.UUCP> Organization: Kontron Electronics, Irvine, CA Lines: 19 > In article <139@telesoft.UUCP> dar@telesoft.UUCP (David Reisner @shine) writes: > >> > > What's the word for a 1972 car appearing in a film set in 1950? > > > >Continuity Error > >Typically, there is a person working on a film who is in charge of > >"continuity". If someone's shirt becomes clean, the part in their > >hair changes sides, or they dry off over a few feet, it is > >continuity's fault. It can be a Really tough job, given that movies > >are, in general, not shot in sequence. > >Or perhaps "anachronism" is what you're looking for. > >-David > >sdcsvax!telesoft!dar Speaking of which, did anyone else notice how anachronistic _Prizzi's_ _Honor_ was? I mean, at one point one of the characters gets out of a late 1970s Ford station wagon, and mid-1970s vans appear in some of the scenes at the industrial laundry. (It was supposed to be a late 1950s or early 1960s period piece.) I lost count of the number of items that were grossly wrong.