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Mysterious Island (1961) More at IMDbPro »

• Anachronisms: The story is set in 1865, but the clothing worn by the pirates is about 200 years out of date.
  
  
• Anachronisms: Elena is clearly wearing a (1960s) modern pair of yellow panties under her miniskirt. Also, no woman in the 1860s would have worn such a skirt which revealed her legs. It would be like being naked to the waist today.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: After eating the giant crab, the five castaways begin climbing the volcano. In one long shot, a sixth shirtless person (apparently a crewmember) appears from behind a rock for a few seconds.
  
  

• Continuity: The "neck" of the balloon is shown blown out of position when first seen. It is then shown in place, too quickly to have been repaired.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Set in 1860 but the balloon rises above a nest of TV aerials.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When two men are chopping down a tree with stone axes, large flat cuts in the tree trunk are seen which could only have been made by a saw that the men didn't have.
  
  
• Anachronisms: In the opening scenes of the film, we see cannons firing that have a system that allows the barrel to recoil to the rear on firing with the gun carriage remaining in place. This type of artillery did not exist during the Civil War.
  
  
• Continuity: On the surface of the water, you can see the masts of the sunken pirate ship extending above the surface. However, in the underwater shots the ship is fully submerged.
  
  
• Continuity: There are some differences with the model pirate ship and the full-size version. Most noticeable is two white lights or decorations on the corners of the stern in the model, which are not present or noticeable in the full-size version.
  
  
• Continuity: Elena's slippers come and go when she is on land and in the water. One scene when escaping from the Nautilus, she clearly has the slippers on as she prepares to go in the water, the next cutaway has her in the water doing the breast stroke barefoot and no slippers in sight. Then she has the slippers when she is back on land.
  
  
• Continuity: When the pirate ship arrives, it is a three masted vessel with square sails on the first mast and fore and aft sails on the other two masts. The sunken pirate ship shows square sails on all three masts.
  
  
• Continuity: Neb and Capt. Harding are walking on the beach when they step on top of the giant crab which is covered with sand. In the next shot, the massive crustacean is clawing feverishly at the hapless duo clean and polished...sand-free.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Capt. Nemo plays the organ he begins with the opening toccata of Bach's Toccata & Fugue in D minor. His hands are not even playing notes, it seems he is just massaging the keys. The second time you see his hands, they are quite still showing in both instances that he is obviously not playing and that the organ sound was dubbed in.
  
  

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