What’s that one anachronism you always pick up in movies and tv? Susan Kare’s Chicago font in 1940s small town America? A canon 5D dslr winding on film in Skyline? VT100s in a monsterverse scene in 1974?
The Golden Age of Piracy fantasized in all the swashbuckling movies ended in 1726 when pirate William Fly was hanged in Boston Harbor
Accordions and concertinas in so many of those movies weren’t invented until 1829 during the Industrial Revolution, at the same time as the typewriter, the telegraph and the steam engine
@NanoRaptor I always notice outdated hairstyles in movies filmed in the past but set in other time periods or fantasy settings. And yet I never object to the extremely contemporary hairstyles in any recent movie with a period or fantastic setting. And so the cycle of hairstyle violence continues.
@NanoRaptor X-Files having very period correct computers from early 90s to 00's that Dana would write her field notes in. And a nice Handspring Visor on the desk of one of the FBI directors.
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Try watching any kind of media with my dad - he will gleefully and pedantically point out all kinds of railway-related errors. And there are a lot.
@coprolite9000@NanoRaptor omg this reminds me of my biggest one: when the subway cars/station sets don't match the city they're in - if you say you're on the DC metro and I don't see hexagonal red tile someone fucked up.
@NanoRaptor Turntables being used hilariously, and I do mean hilariously, wrong. That's one you didn't list. It's not so much "a turntable wouldn't be here" but "this cannot possibly work and none of you know it."
Most of the time tho' my distractions way more involve the Vancouverspotting game, which is more fun anyway. xD
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