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Fahrenheit 451 (1966)

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• Continuity: When Montag gets in the boat to hide from the flying cops, you can see the rope still tying the boat to the bank. Montag subsequently rows away with out untying it.
  
  
• Continuity: In the first scene in the monorail, the view through the windows show they keep passing the same house.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: The views through the windows of the monorail were shot from an ordinary railway train and when Clarisse and Montag met for the first time. the railway tracks are visible. It's also obvious that the landscape is not seen from high above the ground (as it should be from the real monorail).
  
  

• Continuity: As the firemen leave the apartment in the first raid, the sack is half full of books. The bag they toss over the balcony is twice as full.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Montag's hair in the final scene is different than it is in the rest of the film. This is because Oskar Werner, to show his dislike of director François Truffaut, purposely did this to create a continuity error.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: After Montag comes out of the first raid to burn the books, the placement of the fire protective clothing (helmet and gloves) are unnatural movements and appear to be a reverse run of film footage. This is further compounded by the fact that he walks backwards to get the flamethrower which has flame entering the nozzle instead of leaving the nozzle.
  
  
• Continuity: When the books are being burned in the beginning of the movie, some books that are on the ground suddenly appear in the fire pit even though nobody moved them.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Montag and Clarresse are on the elevator, you can briefly see the director through the mirror.
  
  

• Revealing mistakes: SPOILER: After Montag has revolted against the other Firemen, The Captain's body lies on a pile of books on fire. The way the body's legs are bent reveal that it is a dummy.
  
  

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