Great Proofing Errors through the Ages
Aug. 5th, 2006 11:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperanceOh look, '70s TV geekery. Worse, English '70s TV geekery. But I've just watched a rerun of the first-ever episode of Up Pompeii, and I do just love this.
The episode is based around the Miss Vestal Virgin competition, AD 72 (okay, look, it's British '70s humour, okay? Never mind that, just watch the numbers). The characters say so, and it's written on the posters advertising the event. Then, at the event, there's this big banner at the back, which reads 'Miss Vestal Virgin, AD 79'. And no, it's not a particularly curly 2, it's definitely a 9. And at some point during filming, someone must have noticed. But rather than correct it, reshoot it, remake the props, they just ignored it - only the next time we visit the event, the end of the banner has been judiciously wrapped a couple of times around its pole, so that the 9 has completely disappeared. Oh, how good is that...?
The episode is based around the Miss Vestal Virgin competition, AD 72 (okay, look, it's British '70s humour, okay? Never mind that, just watch the numbers). The characters say so, and it's written on the posters advertising the event. Then, at the event, there's this big banner at the back, which reads 'Miss Vestal Virgin, AD 79'. And no, it's not a particularly curly 2, it's definitely a 9. And at some point during filming, someone must have noticed. But rather than correct it, reshoot it, remake the props, they just ignored it - only the next time we visit the event, the end of the banner has been judiciously wrapped a couple of times around its pole, so that the 9 has completely disappeared. Oh, how good is that...?
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Date: 2006-08-06 08:22 pm (UTC)When cable finally came down my street about ten years ago (when I was still in the UK), one of the things that induced me to sign up was the fact that UK Gold was about to start a repeat run of I, Claudius. And yes, after twenty years I was astonished at how much I remembered even though I was eleven (I think) when I first saw it, and at how potent it still was.