Corrected entry: Franklin wrote letters when he was sixteen containing "clues" (ie. capitalizing letters) to the location of the treasure. The clues referred to "Pass and Stow," the two craftsmen who recast the Liberty Bell. However, the Bell was not even ordered by the people of Pennsylvania until 30 years after Franklin was 16, so he could not have known that "Pass and Stow" would have cast the bell, or that their names would be on it.
Phoenix
13th Jun 2005
National Treasure (2004)
4th Jan 2005
National Treasure (2004)
Corrected entry: On the 'Charlotte', the main characters find a pipe with a clue etched on the handle. Ben cuts his finger to wipe blood on the outside to see the letters,and when he rolls it onto the paper, the letters are red, when they should be white with a blood background.
Correction: The etched letters are raised, not the background with the letters recessed. If blood covers the pipe equally, the blood on the raised etching will touch the paper while the blood on the recessed background does not, creating red letters on white paper.
4th Dec 2004
National Treasure (2004)
Corrected entry: When Ben decides to steal the Declaration of Independence before Ian, he plots to have it moved to the Preservation Room for easier theft access. Ian's plan is to steal it from the same room but how does he know that the document will be in the Preservation Room and not on display or in its vault?
Correction: Nowhere is it stated or shown that Ian was headed for the Preservation Room. He just catches up with Ben in the hall outside that room, probably on his way to the Declaration's vault. There are only a few extremely high-security areas within the National Archives as depicted here.
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Correction: When Franklin wrote the Dogood papers he did not embed the code in it. When the code trail was being constructed they used the Dogood papers by searching through them for the correct letters and noting their coordinates. You can do this with any document as long as it has all the letters you need. It just so happened that the last letter in the code was a capital; not all of them were.
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