Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site h-sc1.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!h-sc1!friedman From: friedman@h-sc1.UUCP (dawn friedman) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: Re: What's the word for a 1972 car appearing in a film set in 1950? Message-ID: <399@h-sc1.UUCP> Date: Tue, 25-Jun-85 15:30:11 EDT Article-I.D.: h-sc1.399 Posted: Tue Jun 25 15:30:11 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 28-Jun-85 00:12:08 EDT References: <5143@elsie.UUCP> <329@petfe.UUCP> <1784@sunybcs.UUCP> <139@telesoft.UUCP> Organization: Harvard Univ. Science Center Lines: 18 > > > > 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. It can be rough on the actors, or extras, involved as well. Ephraim Kishon has a pretty story about this in _Unfair to Goliath_. If anyone has read this (unlikely) I'd like to know if the practices described are at all realistic... Dawn Sharon (dsf/speaker)