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"Pride and Prejudice" (1995) More at IMDbPro »

• Continuity: Throughout the scene in which Darcy proposes to Lizzy in the Parsonage at Hunsford, the clock on the mantelpiece shows 17 minutes past 6.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: Bingley's praise "Absolutely marvelous" for Lizzy's recital at Pemberley is out of sync.
  
  
• Continuity: Just after Darcy's unexpected meeting with Lizzy Bennet at Pemberley, Darcy and Lizzy set off for a walk of the grounds. In mid-sentence they somehow leap from the foot of a flight of steps to the top.
  
  

• Miscellaneous: When Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth dance for the first time at Netherfield, there is a short black hair trapped in the camera.
  
  
• Factual errors: In the opening titles, one of the make-up artists is named as "Jennny Eades", but this is changed to the more usual spelling for "Jenny" in the final credits.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Lizzy is playing the pianoforte at Rosings, the camera pans across the top of the piano, revealing that no hammers are striking the strings as she plays.
  
  
• Continuity: When Darcy first introduces his sister to Elizabeth, the position of his hands changes between shots as he's telling Elizabeth that Bingley is around and wishes to meet her too.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: In the drawing room at Longbourn just before the soldiers are to leave Meryton, Mrs. Bennett is talking to Col. Forster with Mr. Bennett and Wickham looking on. At one point we hear the conversation happening, but the shot is from another time when they were not talking to each other.
  
  
• Continuity: In the scene at Pemberley, when Mr. Darcy first appears, the shadows of the actors are quite long, as if towards the end of a day as the sun was low in the sky. Yet later, after Mr. Darcy has changed clothes, the shadows are far shorter, indicating the sun was higher and it was earlier in the day.
  
  
• Continuity: After Mr Darcy has written his letter to Elizabeth, we see it lying on the table surrounded by quill shavings, even though we saw him write the letter with a steel tipped pen.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Mary begins to sing her second song at the ball at Netherfield, there is a shot of her, and her mouth isn't moving at all even though the singing can be heard.
  
  
• Continuity: When Lady Catherine is arguing with Elizabeth about her marrying Mr Darcy, the leaves on the trees are nearly all off, indicating that it is around November. However, when Mr Darcy proposes to Elizabeth on the walk later, the trees are only just beginning to turn and the corn in the field behind them has not been reaped, showing it is earlier in the year.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: At the beginning of the Netherfield dance where Lizzy dances with Mr Darcy as the music comes on, the camera is on Lizzy. That shot of her must have been too fast because they slow it down considerably, shown by a lady fanning herself in the background, and Jane further down the line nodding to someone on the opposite wall, both in slow motion.
  
  
• Continuity: At the double wedding we see that behind Mr Bingley, Miss Bingley and Georgiana are seated with at least one person between them. However, when the camera is on them, they are standing very close together. Also, just before this shot, Miss Bingley turns her head as if to speak to someone, but is facing forward in the closer shot.
  
  
• Anachronisms: Although it could have been adapted to activate an electric doorbell in modern times, the button next to Mr. Collins's parsonage front door - seen when Mr. Darcy exits following his unsuccessful proposal to Elizabeth and identified as belonging to an electric doorbell - is clearly the pull-knob of a mechanical bell, attached to a wire inside that travels through pulleys to activate a mechanical bell on the wall.
  
  
• Continuity: When Elizabeth receives the letters from Jane about Lydia running away, they're both sealed with red wax, but when she picks up the second one to read it, the wax is white.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: During the Netherfield Ball scene, we can see the reflection of the camera crew's lights in the mirror of the ballroom.
  
  
• Continuity: When Lady Catherine de Bourgh pays her visit to Longbourn, Hill announces her and stands with her back to the door. In the next shot, Hill is beside the door and, in the next shot, is once again standing with her back to the door.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When Lizzy is outside the Collinses' house, they pan back to Charlotte at one point and you can faintly hear what sounds like a phone ringing, but it is actually a bird song; there are many such instances in the film.
  
  

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