Ruddy Gore - S1-E6
Continuity mistake: Miss Fisher serves a dumpling to Dot and is complimented by Lin about her dexterity with chopsticks, which she is holding in two different ways between shots. Not just that, but when she asks about "the skirmish" a few moments later, the chopsticks become a cup. (00:13:00)
Ruddy Gore - S1-E6
Other mistake: In this episode set in 1928, a character reads from a 1908 magazine, featuring on the opposite page an ad for an event set to happen in 1930. (00:26:30)
Ruddy Gore - S1-E6
Factual error: Phryne and Dot are sitting at the dining room table looking over a collection of paperback books. Paperback books only came into being in 1936. It took time for books to appear globally in that format.
Ruddy Gore - S1-E6
Revealing mistake: It is revealed that the ghost apparitions come through thanks to projection over falling sand, but that's not the trick used in the actual movie shoot: no sand is falling and accumulating on the floor in the last ghost apparition (when we can see the floor for a while) and in the second apparition (to Miss Fisher backstage) the line of sand was in the wrong direction for it to act as screen.
Ruddy Gore - S1-E6
Factual error: Miss Fisher and Dot browse several issues of Table Talk, an actual Australian publication from the era depicted, and with the exact same font for the header. The cover layout is not at all like the original (it's contemporary and sexier) and they obviously glued newly printed covers to modern paperback magazines, because the actual Table Talk had very limited foliage (around 24 pages) while the magazines shown here are one inch thick. Moreover, a "June 15 1908" edition is mentioned, which was a Monday. Table Talk was a Thursday magazine.
Murder in Montparnasse - S1-E7
Continuity mistake: As Jack and Hugh are questioning the bookie in the bar, Jack mentions he could be charged with murder. The guy, startled, asks "Murder? What?" across 2 shots. In the first, his left hand is under the table, in the second he is holding his hands together as he smokes. (00:09:45)
Murder in Montparnasse - S1-E7
Continuity mistake: When Thommo passes away, Bert is holding him and looks stupefied. All of a sudden between shots his pal by him has put a comforting hand on his back. (00:17:45)
Murder in Montparnasse - S1-E7
Factual error: During scenes in the kitchen (when Bert and Cec hire Miss Fisher; when Butler the butler advises Dot about dealing with the hypocrite priest) a wall calendar is featured. It's nice that it shows the month of October, consistent with the continuity of the season, but it's not an October 1928 calendar, the days are all wrong. (00:21:25 - 00:27:15)
Murder in Montparnasse - S1-E7
Continuity mistake: When the mechanic puts his cheap cigar on the ashtray, it's an enormous, almost whole cigar in the close-up, leaning on top of the matchbox. When it is shown again a few seconds later, it's reduced to just a butt, lying at distance from the box. (00:25:00)
Factual error: Miss Fisher wakes up at her usual time (not quite cockcrow), receives from Dot the news of the death of her friend, that she heard on the radio, makes her way to the crime scene, and finds there Jack, who is just at that time closing the victim's eyelids. A little strange gesture to be performed, hours after death. Unlikely to work with rigor mortis, too. (00:03:15)
Character mistake: Striking conversation with the inspector, Miss Fisher asks him if he's still thinking about when he kissed her 'the other night'. The kiss happened in the previous episode during a police operation happening at 3 PM. Hardly "the other night." (00:06:40)
Continuity mistake: During Miss Fisher's conversation with John/Giovanni/Miss Greenthumbs in the building stairway, when she asks him about Artemis he inhales from the cigarette. Smoke is present and visible, disappears in the reverse shot, back to full visibility as the original angle returns, and no smoke at all when we get back to the reverse shot. (00:15:35)
Continuity mistake: Dot is going through the agony aunt mail: she mentions the woman with 9 kids who does not want to deny her hubby, and you can distinctly see her put back on the table her left hand, holding a letter. Cut, and that hand is now hovering above the table. (00:19:55)
Factual error: When Miss Charlesworth asks where everybody has gone and Letitia answers, you can get a good view of her desk, sporting above it amongst many photos also an illustration surely out of place in 1928: the "We can do it!" girl created by J. Howard Miller in 1942 and more or less apocryphally identified with Rosie the Riveter, a feminist icon that is quite specific to WW2. (00:22:10)
Character mistake: When Hugh is talking with Dot making up a letter as he goes, he says that he's been going out with a wonderful girl for "nearly 6 months." This episode takes place merely a day after the previous, which was set in October. The first episodes when Dot and Hugh could start being called an item were set in August. That is nowhere near 6 months. (00:23:00)
Continuity mistake: When Miss Fisher and Jack find Letitia, her hat is tilted on her head the opposite direction in the two following shots. The bag she dropped in one shot has disappeared entirely in the one when she was rolling down the stairway. (00:30:30)
Plot hole: Camellia is awake when she is being carried away, and later in the episode she fights using martial arts. It is unclear how even caught by surprise she was apprehended without a single sound being made except two times by doors slamming and not even a whimper...considering she is even not gagged.
Factual error: The very opening shot of the episode features by the clock a big red book titled "Otley Pursued." By Martin Waddell, the book was published in 1967, making its appearance in a series set in 1928.
Continuity mistake: As Miss Fisher explains how to eat asparagi, the dark haired girl has her fingers on the veggie in a different position in every shot. (00:02:00)
Other mistake: The clock on the lounge's desk signals the same time for the whole scene's duration (when the girls spot the strange woman waiting outside), which lasts much longer than a minute. (00:08:20 - 00:09:50)
Answer: Louisa's watch was broken during the struggle to get away from her attacker.
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