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The Water Horse (2007) More at IMDbPro »

• Factual errors: The film depicts the famous picture of the Loch Ness monster as being taken in 1942 by a couple of fishermen. In reality, the picture is known as the "Surgeon's Photo" and was photographed in 1934 and published in the Daily Mail newspaper. It was revealed to be a hoax in 1994 and is supposedly the picture of a toy submarine with a sculpted head fixture.
  
  
• Anachronisms: In an early scene, Angus pulls out a first aid kit, and the bandage on top is labeled 'Telfa'. The film is set in 1942, but Telfa bandages weren't marketed by the Kendall Company/Curity until 1954.
  
  
• Continuity: When Angus first takes the egg into the workshop, you can see the door to the workshop is set in a recessed porch and it is cloudy. The next shot, as he enters the workshop, has the sun streaming through the glass in the door. Whilst it is feasible that the sun could have just come out, it would be impossible for it to be streaming through the glass, given the position of the door in the previous shot.
  
  

• Errors in geography: The story has taken some obvious leaps in geography as Loch Ness does not connect directly to the North Sea. While it could be said that the monster may have been traveling along the River Ness and the Morey Firth to get to the North Sea, since the River Ness is about 100 meters at its widest, a submarine would most likely not traverse such a long and treacherous route just to attack the Scottish Highlands.
  
  
• Anachronisms: When the Hawker Hurricane flies over the Loch, one of the wings is painted black. Originally designed to make the Hurricane easily identifiable by the anti-aircraft gunners, this color scheme was definitively abandoned in 1941, one year before the story is supposed to happen.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Angus's mum is looking at Angus, Gracie and Hughie through a window in the door, the camera seems to just see them through the window, but when we see Angus's mum looking through the window, the window is obscured or cracked.
  
  
• Anachronisms: In the workshop, Angus has a toy ship which is clearly seen and is the SS United States - but this ship was not built until 1952.
  
  

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