Visible crew/equipment: Near the end when the Coast Guard is chasing the boat, there is a shot looking at Wilford Brimley. The perfect shadow of the camera can be seen since the light is directly behind the operator.
Cocoon (1985)
1 visible crew/equipment mistake - chronological order
Directed by: Ron Howard
Starring: Brian Dennehy, Steve Guttenberg, Hume Cronyn, Wilford Brimley, Don Ameche
Deliberate mistake: David spots the boat with the old folk on and runs around the harbor, down the jetty and jumps towards the dive boat as it leaves the jetty. He doesn't jump very high and you can see he would miss the rail on the boat. In the next shot, a (larger) stunt double is shown leaping high in the air onto the boat and, of course, catches the rail.
Trivia: Some of the cloud effects were created by dumping colored dyes in tanks of water which were then superimposed into the shot.
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