Visible crew/equipment: While Russ and Anne are on horseback, Russ pursues the trespasser and threatens him with the rearing horse. When Anne calls out, "Russ," and takes off after him, the boom operator and boom pole/mic are visible at the left side of the screen, just as Anne passes the tree. (00:11:40)
UFO (1970)
1 visible crew/equipment mistake in The Sound of Silence
Starring: Ed Bishop, Michael Billington, Ayshea Brough, Dolores Mantez
Genres: Sci-fi
Plot hole: The alien-possessed Mason steals Captain Lauritzen's fingerprints by pressing his fingertips to the captain's and "heat transferring" the prints. Big problems here: those prints would now be backwards and for the wrong hand. But when the computer later reads the prints, it fails to notice this and passes him through security as "Identity Correct." (00:23:30)
Ed Straker: Hello, Miss Ealand. Hard at it?
Miss Ealand: I'm always "hard at it." Sometimes you notice.
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