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Around the World in Eighty Days (1956) More at IMDbPro »

• Revealing mistakes: When Passepartout is on top of the train, being attacked by Indians, the rubber arrows bounce off of him.
  
  
• Anachronisms: At the beginning of the film we are told that it is 1872 and shortly afterwards we see the Welsh Guards on parade (you can tell by the layout of their buttons - two rows of five). The Welsh Guards are the most junior of the Guards Regiments and weren't formed until 26 February 1915.
  
  
• Anachronisms: When the train stops after the Indian raid, the sign on the train station says "Fort Kearney", and the station manager mentions a local train that will run to Omaha, establishing the location in Nebraska. In 1872, the sign should have read "Kearney Junction." Fort Kearny (correct spelling) was shut down in 1871. The second "e" was added to the city of Kearney, Nebraska's name due to a postal error, and it has since remained with that spelling.
  
  

• Anachronisms: When the Sioux are preparing to burn Passepartout at the stake, trees can be seen in the surrounding area. In 1872, there were no trees in outstate Nebraska, aside from those in forts and towns.
  
  
• Anachronisms: When Fogg finds Passepartout at the circus in Yokohama, Passepartout races to him causing the collapse of a human pyramid. The top man of the pyramid grabs the canvas background, pulling it down, revealing the back of the stage and lighting. That type of stage support structure was not used in Japan at that time, and the overhead lights are modern lamps that were not available in 1872.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Fogg and Passepartout are traveling in the balloon, the streamers at the bottom of the basket are fluttering behind them. Since a balloon moves with the wind, streamers generally tend to hang straight down or flutter randomly in the turbulence.
  
  
• Continuity: When Passepartout is in the San Francisco saloon, he sits at a table. While he is sitting there, a knife is thrown and lands on the table next to his hand. When the knife hits, it knocks over a glass of beer on the table but when we see the table a moment later, the glass is upright, still containing beer.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: During the parade in San Francisco, the shadow of the camera crane is visible in the street.
  
  
• Factual errors: At the unstable bridge, the engineer backs up the train to cross it at 30 mph. But the distance the train backed up was insufficient for acceleration to that speed.
  
  
• Anachronisms: When the balloon crosses France, the Sacre Coeur Basilica can be seen. But the building of that church begun in 1873.
  
  
• Errors in geography: The scenes which supposedly take place in Yokohama, Japan, were in fact shot in Kamakura, west of Yokohama, and in Kyoto, far southwest of Yokohama. The film visually links Kamakura's Great Buddha with Kyoto's Heian Shrine (making it appear as if they are within walking distance of one another), though in reality the two locations are in separate regions of Japan.
  
  
• Anachronisms: When the tall ship US Grant arrives in San Francisco, you can see the radar installations on the mast. Did not exist in 1872. Ship is a stock shot of the contemporary 1950s Japanese training ship Nippon Maru.
  
  
• Factual errors: At the beginning of the movie, in London, carriages are shown driving on the right side and driving around roundabouts in a counter-clockwise direction. The opposite of British driving.
  
  
• Anachronisms: In San Francisco the 'ladies of the evening' jump off a wagon full of beer barrels marked 'Pabst Blue Ribbon.' Pabst was called 'Select' until 1882 when, due to their practice of tying a blue ribbon around the neck, it was frequently asked for as 'that blue ribbon beer.'
  
  
• Anachronisms: In 1872, the "Stars and Stripes" at the Fort Kearney station would've had 37 stars, not 38, until 1877, when the 38th star for Colorado was added.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: In the saloon scene, the music that we hear is nowhere close to being that mimed by the piano player.
  
  
• Factual errors: At the end of the film at the Lloyd's of London offices, Scotland Yard's Inspector Hunter explains that Fogg and the chap who robbed the bank of England are the same, he also states that Fogg and his party took the SS Henrietta bound for Caracas, Venezuela. After confirming that Fogg has bolted, he states that the Henrietta is going to Central America - but neither Caracas is a seaport nor Venezuela is in Central America.
  
  
• Factual errors: In all the close-up scenes with the gas balloon the basket ropes are tight from the load ring and down, but from the load ring and up to the balloon they are slack. Had it been a real flying gas balloon, all the ropes and also the net above the load ring would have been very tight during flight since they are carrying the weight of the basket and everything in it. It is clearly visible that the lifting force, by a stage crane, is erroneously placed in the center through the appending gas valve. Had the sandbags on the basket actually contained sand, they would not have bounced around so lightly. Not to venture into details, but most of the flight behavior of the balloon is completely unnatural when compared to the behavior of a real aerostat under such circumstances.
  
  

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