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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?
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Date: Fri, 28-Jun-85 20:23:58 EDT
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> 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.