Films and TV

[wellinghall]

I seem to have been watching TV with an unusual eye for detail recently.

Yesterday, in watching the early Fred Astaire / Ginger Rogers film Roberta, I spotted two scenes that were very clearly picked up in Singing in the Rain. And then watching the first part of Love Actually, I spotted Marcus Brigstock. I hadn't seen either of these on previous viewings.

In the Sherlock Holmes Blue Carbuncle story yesterday, there was an error (by the programme makers, not by Holmes or Conan Doyle - although these do exist in the books!) Holmes was drawing inferences about a hat's wearer from the condition of its lining - which, when we caught a glimpse of it, looked far too fresh.

And in a recent Poirot, there was one definite continuity error (his bow tie changed in a scene, then changed back); and a possible one (the same programme seemed to be set in both 1932 and 1936).

ETA: Which reminds me of a note in Unfinished Tales which I doubted. I will dig it out.

Comments

[miss-next.livejournal.com]

I bet Mole would like a bow tie like that. :-)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I'm sure he would! :-)

[parrot-knight.livejournal.com]

The main run of television Poirots in the Hastings-Japp-Miss Lemon era were all set in one year, according to the documentary which is sometimes wheeled out alongside them on ITV3, but I can't remember which one it is. This was more a guide for designers, I think, than a story point strictly, though, and so could easily lead to contradictions.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I saw a clear mention of 1937 in a previous story.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Another one featured the Jarrow march, which placed it fairly definitely.

[parrot-knight.livejournal.com]

I wonder what will happen when they get to the remaining book of short stories, written and (I think) implicitly set post-war? David Suchet keeps referring to it in interviews as a remaining 'novel', which it isn't. I'd use it as a bridge towards the last novel, Curtain.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

It's too long since I've read it, but I did see an interview with DS recently, where he referred to them as short stories.