prgclb@ihuxm.UUCP (06/23/83)
Ben Goldfarb's note on seeing a red stop sign (instead of a yellow one) in a movie set in the 1930s reminds me of other notable goofs in the movies. I have seen, more than once, a movie character drop coins into the newer single-slot coin telephones while the sound track plays the BONG sound that you heard when you dropped quarters into the old 3-hole coin phones. Other goofs -- particularly related to railroads -- a made for TV movie set in the World War II era showed Southern Railway's 4501 steam locomotive pulling a string of boxcars -- but the boxcars were all 1970s vintage: steel, no running boards on top, and handbrake wheel down low. In the Silver Streak, the engineer is driving the train from the left side of the engine. Any railroader knows that engineers ALWAYS sit on the right-hand side. I have nothing against poetic license, but obvious errors . . . Carl Blesch Bell Labs - Naperville, Ill. IH 2A-159, (312) 979-3360 ihuxm!prgclb