What's your most ANNOYING film/tv anachronisms/hist. inaccuracy? My vote-The Artist

[SSgt Burton]

Re: What's your most ANNOYING film/tv anachronisms/hist. inaccuracy? My vote-The Art

Contrails aren't formed by spraying necessarily, it's usually formed by condensation formed on/by the wing tips or by water vapor in the engine exhaust.

I know.

It's a bit of an inside joke I was making.


Kevin

 

[Nwerke]

Re: What's your most ANNOYING film/tv anachronisms/hist. inaccuracy? My vote-The Art

You are a bad man. :lol

 

[Treadwell]

Re: What's your most ANNOYING film/tv anachronisms/hist. inaccuracy? My vote-The Art

Here's the Mythbusters entry on shooting through a scope:

A sniper can kill another sniper by shooting them straight through the scope.
PLAUSIBLE*
Using a police industry standard SWAT sniper rifle and standard police match ammunition, the MythBusters fired several shots at a scoped rifle mounted on a ballistics gel dummy. Unfortunately, the bullet was unable to hit the dummy. The bullet was either stopped or deflected by the multiple layers of lenses in the scope, leaving the dummy relatively unharmed. Without any clear evidence that a bullet can penetrate a sniper scope, the MythBusters decided to label the myth as busted.

*This myth was originally labeled "busted," but due to much debate by viewers it was revisited in episode 75. Using a period-accurate scope (this myth originates from reports of Carlos Hathcock in the Vietnam War), it was found to be plausible.

 

[The Wolf]

Re: What's your most ANNOYING film/tv anachronisms/hist. inaccuracy? My vote-The Art

"The Way We Were" is just awful for anachronisms.
Mostly the hairstyles and things like that but I had to rewind when Barbara Streisand asked a friend to tape a speech he was going to. Tape? This was supposed to be the '30s, years before Memorex.

Wolf

 

[Sluis Van Shipyards]

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Not to mention that the whole shot through the scope thing came from Marine Corps Gunnery Sgt. Carlos Hathcock during the Vietnam War. I believe that was the first and only recorder instance of a sniper shooting another sniper through the scope.

I knew he did it. Now I'm ticked because there have been several "real" history shows that said Zaitsev did that as well.

 

[Solo4114]

Re: What's your most ANNOYING film/tv anachronisms/hist. inaccuracy? My vote-The Art

I knew he did it. Now I'm ticked because there have been several "real" history shows that said Zaitsev did that as well.

Were they on the History Channel? If so, there's your problem.

 

[Michael Bergeron]

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Were they on the History Channel? If so, there's your problem.

:lol

Too true! :facepalm

 

[Bigdaddy]

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When the History Channel 1st came on I had high hopes that something on TV might actually be worthwhile, sadly I was mistaken :facepalm

 

[Michael Bergeron]

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When the History Channel 1st came on I had high hopes that something on TV might actually be worthwhile, sadly I was mistaken :facepalm

I've had a few pitches to them over the years, all with full funding lined up and complete season outlines with several scripts ready to go. The response from History? "This is great, but we don't do history anymore. We're looking for something more like Ice Truckers". :facepalm

 

[Bigdaddy]

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:lol It's like TLC, I thought that was "The Learning Channel" WTH does anybody learn there?
The History Channel, The Learning Channel, Music Television: The names themselves are inaccuracies :lol

 

[Bigdaddy]

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I've had a few pitches to them over the years, all with full funding lined up and complete season outlines with several scripts ready to go. The response from History? "This is great, but we don't do history anymore. We're looking for something more like Ice Truckers". :facepalm

Ice Truckers of Ancient Rome, now there is some history!

 

[Solo4114]

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I've had a few pitches to them over the years, all with full funding lined up and complete season outlines with several scripts ready to go. The response from History? "This is great, but we don't do history anymore. We're looking for something more like Ice Truckers". :facepalm

Pop on over to the Vikings thread for my thoughts on the subject...

 

[Michael Bergeron]

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Pop on over to the Vikings thread for my thoughts on the subject...

lol

 

[greylocke]

Re: What's your most ANNOYING film/tv anachronisms/hist. inaccuracy? My vote-The Art

I've had a few pitches to them over the years, all with full funding lined up and complete season outlines with several scripts ready to go. The response from History? "This is great, but we don't do history anymore. We're looking for something more like Ice Truckers". :facepalm

We need to start an "Accurate History" Channel. Something like PBS of the early 70's where if it wasn't accurate it didn't run.

 

[CB2001]

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All the Indiana Jones films... That's not archeology, not in the slightest bit. :lol

 

[Montagar]

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Some posts have been removed as they have taken the thread completely off track.

 

[Jodo]

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The entire film "Gangster Squad".

 

[LMFAOSchwarz]

Re: What's your most ANNOYING film/tv anachronisms/hist. inaccuracy? My vote-The Art

I'm not totally sure if it was an anachronism, but I remember watching an episode of Gunsmoke, and in a scene there were party balloons, the usual colored kind you see at birthday parties and such. I suspected that they hadn't been "invented" yet.:unsure

 

[Zombie_61]

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I'm not totally sure if it was an anachronism, but I remember watching an episode of Gunsmoke, and in a scene there were party balloons, the usual colored kind you see at birthday parties and such. I suspected that they hadn't been "invented" yet.:unsure

Gunsmoke was set in the 1870s. The first rubber balloon was invented by Professor Micheal Faraday in 1824 for use in experimentation with various gases at the Royal Institution in London. Latex balloons as we know them today were first produced by J.G. Ingram of London in 1847.

 

[SSgt Burton]

Re: What's your most ANNOYING film/tv anachronisms/hist. inaccuracy? My vote-The Art

Ssgt Barnes' Cold Steel push dagger in Platoon.

(Can't find a pic of him drawing it on Chris during the fight in the bunker, but there it is on Barnes' webbing)

Even in when I was 16 in 1986, I knew this was way out of place for a Vietnam War film. Popular knife in the mid eighties- I always saw them in the backs of SOF magazines, knife mags, martial arts mags etc.

How this ended up in a 'Nam film with Oliver Stone and Dale A. Dye amazes me considering how they tried to get it "right."


Kevin