Goofs for
Nuovo cinema Paradiso (1988) More at IMDbPro »

• Continuity: Toto as a child is shown to be left-handed during the school examination sequence, but as a young man he is right-handed as he marks off the days on the calendar.
  
  
• Factual errors: The 1954 calendar is wrong. All the days are out by one. The calendar shows that 1st April, 1954 is a Friday. In fact it was a Thursday.
  
  
• Anachronisms: In one scene, scenes from the film Et Dieu... créa la femme (1956) are shown. Several scenes later, Salvatore is shown marking a calendar dated 1954. "And God Created Woman" was released in 1956.
  
  

• Continuity: When Toto and Alfredo is taking the test at school, there are supervisors walking in the background. They repeatedly "jump" around between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: When the (adolescent) Salvatore is leaving home on the train, we see Alfredo getting up out of the seat on the platform. The next time we see him, he's seated again, and getting up again.
  
  
• Continuity: When Toto is young, the films that Alfredo gave him catch fire. They burn and ruin the only picture that his mother had of his father. When Toto is a grown up, this "burnt" picture is hanged on the wall totally unharmed.
  
  
• Factual errors: When the subtitles are shown for the film "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" it reads "Unforgivable songs" rather than "Unforgettable songs"
  
  
• Continuity: When Toto and Alfredo are taking the test at school, Alfredo acquires an ink smudge on his right cheek. During the test the smudge changes shape and intensity several times.
  
  
• Continuity: When Toto is a kid, and he and Alfredo are writing the exam, Toto throws a ball of paper to Alfredo. In one frame, he is throwing it with his left hand and in another frame he is throwing with his right hand.
  
  
• Factual errors: The projection room contains a single projector. At that time all theaters had two or more projectors because a feature film could not fit on a single reel and so the two projectors were used alternately. Fire laws forbid more than a certain amount of film on a reel and the old carbon arc lamps could not run much more than a hour without replacing the carbon light source. Even more puzzling, the projectionist has no viewing window. He has no way of determining if the picture is in frame or focus or even if the right subject is being shown.
  
  
• Anachronisms: When the film is borrowed from a neighboring theater, we see that the projector is apparently located in the balcony of the theater, not in an enclosed projection room. Furthermore, the projector has a "magnetic penthouse" sound pickup, an attachment used to play early stereophonic prints. This process would not be invented until 1953 and not used widely until years after nitrate film was phased out.
  
  
• Continuity: In the scene of the cinema fire, Alfredo is showing the film to a packed piazza because the theatre is closed for the night but the crowd outside wants more. Yet, when the theatre catches fire crowds of people are shown running OUT of the theatre as young Toto rushes in.
  
  

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