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Continuity mistake: When Thomson and Thompson arrive at the garage, they park their car directly facing the gasoline pump. A couple of shots later, as the mechanic goes to fill their car, the car has suddenly moved back a few feet, and the pump is mostly ahead of the car. (00:01:20)
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Continuity mistake: Whilst Thomson and Thompson are driving through the woods, Thomson is holding two canes. The canes are being held at a vertical angle whilst they are driving, but after the car's engine blows up, the canes are suddenly slanted. (00:01:55)
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Continuity mistake: When Tintin is speaking with the Speedol exec, there is a chart on the wall behind the exec. The last marked point is first located around a centimetre away from the nearest line on the chart. Two shots after this, the point is directly on the line on the chart. A further two shots after, the last marked point is suddenly back to where it was. (00:02:05)
Land of Black Gold: Part 1 - S2-E10
Audio problem: The Speedol exec says "in the last two months, our fuel supplies have become a serious threat", but his lips are saying something different. (00:02:05)
Land of Black Gold: Part 1 - S2-E10
Continuity mistake: Whilst Tintin is waiting at the docks, he is behind a train with a sign on it. Later on in the scene, when Tintin is wondering how he should get on the Speedol Star, the sign has gotten much smaller. (00:03:00 - 00:03:40)
Land of Black Gold: Part 1 - S2-E10
Revealing mistake: When Tintin is at the docks, waiting for something to happen, he sees a man walk from the fog into view. The man is transparent and you can see right through him. (00:03:05)
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Continuity mistake: When Tintin catches the bag with Snowy in, he holds it in his lap between his legs. Two shots after this, his right leg has changed position and is suddenly stretched out. (00:07:10)
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Revealing mistake: When the military police are searching the Speedol Star, two of them barge into Thomson and Thompson's room whilst they are playing cards. After they barge into the room, the two let go of their cards in surprise. Once this happens, there is a card shown near the right hand side of the table that is floating above the table. (00:08:00)
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Continuity mistake: When the military police are looking through the detectives' bags, one of them finds a bag that Thomson and Thompson assume to be the secret documents. The man begins to shake it and diamonds fall out. In the first shot of the diamonds falling out, as the shot ends, two diamonds are in the man's hand, followed by a third diamond falling out. The shot cuts and there are suddenly five diamonds in the man's hand, followed by a sixth diamond that falls out. (00:08:15)
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Continuity mistake: When Tintin wakes up in Bab El Ehr's tent, there is a flower pattern on his left and one on his right. When he gets up, they are no longer beside him. (00:09:25)
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Continuity mistake: When Bab El Ehr and his men leave Tintin for dead, he is lying on the ground with his head facing forwards. In the next shot, his head is suddenly facing toward the left. (00:11:10)
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Continuity mistake: Bab El Ehr and his men untie Tintin after he passes out and leave him. As they are riding away, the rope he was tied with is beside him. In the next shot, the rope is positioned differently. (00:11:10)
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Revealing mistake: Tintin sees the four men planting the explosive in the pipe line. Two of the four men are kneeling beside the pipe, one on the front side wearing a brown cloak and green clothing and one on the opposite side wearing grey clothing planting the explosive in the pipe. The man on the opposite side in grey clothing is passing through the pipe when the two are first kneeling. (00:12:20)
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Revealing mistake: Mueller hops off his horse and tells Tintin (as Amed) to hold the horse and tells him he will be back in a moment. Throughout the entirety of this shot, the colour of the blanket on Mueller's horse constantly flickers between several frames. As Mueller gets off the horse, the blanket is dark teal, then Mueller hands the rein to his horse to Tintin and the blanket suddenly flickers to dark orange and also dark teal near the bottom. Tintin jumps off the horse and the blanket suddenly flickers back to dark teal again. (00:13:25)
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Continuity mistake: After Mueller leaves his horse, Tintin follows behind him to spy on him and stops hiding behind a rock. From one angle, he stops, pointing his gun forwards. The shot cuts and suddenly the gun is pointing upwards. (00:13:40)
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Revealing mistake: When Tintin goes to spy on Mueller, he stops for a brief moment and then continues walking. When he begins to start walking again the strap on the gun he is holding clips through one of the rocks on the ground. (00:13:40)
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Continuity mistake: After Tintin realises he was right that the man was Mueller, the shot then pans back to Mueller looking at his face in a small mirror. When the shot stops panning, there is nothing reflected in Mueller's mirror. The shot changes to a close-up of the mirror and Mueller's reflection suddenly appears in the mirror. (00:13:55)
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Revealing mistake: When Mueller is brushing his beard, the reflection shown in the mirror he is using is different to what is actually happening. His thumb is on his chin, but in the reflection his thumb is next to his mouth. (00:13:55)
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Continuity mistake: After Mueller finds out Tintin is spying on him, Mueller strikes him with a very thick bat and also strikes Snowy with the same bat. A couple of shots later, as Mueller says "Foolish Amed", the bat is suddenly much thinner. (00:14:10)
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Audio problem: When Thomson notices the can of petrol on the road, he tells Thompson to stop the car and then Thompson replies by saying "Righto," but without his lips moving. (00:16:05)
Chosen answer: If Hector was seriously intent on removing King Ottokar's scepter from the glass cage holding it and launching it through the window with the camera, then Hector would have been forced to knock out the two guards so they would not have interfered with Hector's plan as soon as he removed the scepter from the glass. As for Hector, himself, was explained when Tintin was explaining how Hector stole the scepter. Tintin placed a twig inside the camera and it launched out of the camera. Hector would have placed the scepter inside of the camera, and would have been knocked unconscious due to the spring effect created when the scepter had been launched.
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