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Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959) More at IMDbPro »

• Revealing mistakes: When leaving the crystal spring, a long crystal bends when someone brushes against it, indicating that it's rubber.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Near the end of the movie, when Alec is trapped in the tree at the convent, he falls and grabs one of the nearby sheep to disguise his nakedness, you can see the shorts he is wearing.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: Near the end of the film, when Hans is calling for his duck, Gertrude, his mouth movements don't match his words.
  
  

• Anachronisms: Early in the movie, Oliver Lindenbrook speaks of the "stars and galaxies of outer space." In the 1880s, however, our Milky Way galaxy was believed to constitute the entire universe. Knowledge that other galaxies exist beyond our own did not come about till the 1920s. Thus a man of the 1880s would not use the word "galaxy" in its plural form.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: After bathing in the underground cavern, Alec places his hand on a rock to climb down after his lantern, and the rock moves as if it were made of plaster.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Alec attacks the lizard's tongue with the chisel, the point he hits is a different color to the rest of the tongue, making it obvious where the fake blood is set.
  
  
• Continuity: The rope that Carla trips on while trying to escape the dinosaurs is shown to catch the tip of one of her boots, then around her ankle, then at the tip of her boot again.
  
  
• Continuity: When 'Atlantis' is discovered, Mason is heard delivering one line in a regular voice and the next in a voice with an echo without changing locations.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): The "Count" pleads with the enraged Hans in English although they are both Icelandic, and the Count already knows that Hans speaks no English.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: Camera shadow on Lindenbrook when he gives the university officials the plumb bob.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Goteborg gets in the carriage and leaves the volcano, tracks from the wheels are visible. The tracks end, as if the carriage had backed into its position.
  
  
• Errors in geography: When Lindenbrook is in the carriage after being kidnapped, the topography looks more like the southwest United States than Iceland.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Lindenbrook and Count Saknussem come back out of the sea after escaping the giant lizard, their footprints in the sand from running out during a previous take are clearly visible. It is not their footprints from running in.
  
  
• Continuity: When Hans wakes up on the beach and is shouting for Gertrude, there is no echo. When the rest of the party is shouting for Hans, there is an echo.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Iceland, the oldest democracy in the world, has had no titles of nobility for nearly 1000 years, therefore Saknussem's epithet of "count" is meaningless.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): A Swedish scientist is named Göteborg. This is the name of Sweden's second biggest city, but is unknown as the name of a person. The writers apparently assumed that since English-speaking people such as Jack London and Michael York can be named for large English cities, then Swedes can be named after Swedish cities, but this is simply not so.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Alec and Jenny are supposed to be Scottish, yet their accents sound very American.
  
  

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