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Trivia: As was custom with a lot of films at the time, this movie makes some extensive use of rear-projection. Several scenes were shot in a studio but used filmed or still backgrounds to make it appear like they were shot on location. A lot of the scenes that take place while characters are on a horse-drawn carriage use the technique, except the shots behind the characters are moving. The biggest use of rear projection is during the horse race on the beach.

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Visible crew/equipment: Maureen O'Hara takes off her stockings and runs across the water toward the camera. As she gets closer, it's clear there is a light behind the camera as the camera casts a big shadow on her.

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Revealing mistake: During the courting scene as they're riding through the countryside, the man controlling the horse has a pipe in his mouth. It casts a shadow on the rear-projected background, making it very obvious. So does Maureen O'Hara's hat. John Wayne's shoulder does as well.

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Trivia: The scene where Will Smith climbs aboard the crashed craft ("Welcome to Earth") was accomplished by using forced perspective, an in-camera technique that is as old as cinema. The ship is much closer to the camera than Will is, but it gives the illusion he is climbing aboard this massive craft. The technique is also used elsewhere in the film but this is one of the best examples.

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Audio problem: When Lewis is checking into the first hotel and finds out the rooms have been cancelled, he asks the front desk clerk Sunny if there is anything she can do. She leans back a bit and you can hear her say, "I don't," but her mouth doesn't move. She then says she will ask her manager. This is a weird error, likely caused by audio overlaid from another angle where the line was different.

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Continuity mistake: When Louis is carrying all of the luggage into the first hotel, he bumps into people who bump the guy on the ladder, Stewart. This causes a coconut to fall on the guy's head. You can see Stewart start to come down the ladder. Cut to a different angle; Stewart is back at the top of the ladder and climbs back down again.

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Visible crew/equipment: During the parade, Gerard motions for the other guy on his team to stay to the right. There are a couple of shots of the parade, followed by the one where Gerard looks over the green wall. As this is happening, the camera is moving to the left. Look in the windows of the building. You can briefly see it pass.

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Factual error: Near the beginning, it's clear we're in Chicago because we're hearing a Chicago radio station. Clark turns the corner before nearly running into people in the road. You can see mountains in the background very briefly. The Griswold house was one of the properties on the Warner Brothers Ranch in Burbank, California which has since been demolished.

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Continuity mistake: At the gas station, Thelma and Ben are talking to random people Thelma thinks she knows. Meanwhile, her family is on the way there. The sun is going down in this sequence and it's noticeably getting darker. Before they run behind the building, it's suddenly lighter outside and gets darker again.

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Plot hole: When the military says they're going in, they ask how Billy got off campus through a pipe. Earlier when Billy goes through the pipe he's immediately met by two soldiers in ghillie suits. You mean to tell me the soldiers that meet Billy wouldn't know how to get through a pipe? The military is incompetent in this film but come on.

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Continuity mistake: During the "bridge is out" scene, Harry's helicopter is parallel to another chopper to the right of it. The chopper to the right is in front of and then behind Harry's chopper depending on the angle.

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Revealing mistake: Han and Leia are arguing in the ice tunnels near the beginning. Han tells her she wants him to stay, and they stop and talk about it. Two people pass. Han moves back for the first person to come between them. The second alien-looking guy walks behind Han. His rubber mask gets caught on Han's right shoulder and bounces back into shape immediately.

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Audio problem: After Wesley rescues Princess Buttercup from Vizzini, he takes her up on a windy mountain and they talk. In one angle, Wesley is talking and wind noise can be heard during his vocals. It never happens again during the shot although all shots in this sequence are windy.

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Bullet Points - S4-E4

Continuity mistake: Walt comes over to Jesse's house to tell him about Hank investigating Gale's murder. Jesse is shaving some guy's head. In one shot, the guy getting shaved has less hair. More hair instantly appears seconds later. (00:26:20)

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Other mistake: Less than a few minutes into the film, there is a shot of a dark sky looking through a barbed wire fence with yellow wildflowers at the bottom of the frame. The flowers start blowing in the wind, and then snap back to the beginning of the shot. Just before the shot cuts, the wildflowers move again, repeating the action earlier. The shot is looped.

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Continuity mistake: Audrey's cup disappears when Jerry sees Fletcher through the plane window.

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Continuity mistake: Near the end, when Fletcher is giving the homeless man some change, notice how the man has a bright patch of light on him. In the next angle it's not there. Cut back to the wide shot and it's back.

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Factual error: The scene at the car lot in the beginning is supposed to take place in Chicago. Mountains and palm trees are visible in one angle when Clark is talking to Ed about the car being the wrong one.

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I Take Thee Quagmire - S4-E21

Continuity mistake: Lois' breasts grow in size when Peter is trying to get Quagmire to snap out of his trance.

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Revealing mistake: Benjamin pulls into a gas station to use the phone near the end. There are an awful lot of tire marks where the car skids to a stop. Likely practice marks from previous takes.

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