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On Her Majesty’s Secret Service: Film – Goofups
  1. Revealing mistake: Mat visible beneath false floor in fight scene.
  2. Continuity: Blofeld fails to recognize Bond, even though the two met face-to-face in the previous film, You Only Live Twice (1967). (The original script for OHMSS began with Bond having his face altered via plastic surgery (to explain the change of lead actor). This idea was dropped, but in doing so it created this continuity error later in the film.)
  3. Audio/visual unsynchronised: Bond’s Aston Martin’s tires screech repeatedly on the loose sand of the beach.
  4. Revealing mistake: At the end of the first ski chase, in which Bond ends up on one ski, he nearly goes over a cliff edge. As he pulls himself back, a thin safety cable can be seen attached to his ankle.
  5. Revealing mistake: During the stock car scene, when one of the legitimate contestants’ car gets flipped, there is an in-car POV from the upside-down stock car. However, one can see that the shot is really a conventional reaction shot of the driver inverted in the editing room by the fact that the background and spectators are also upside-down.
  6. Continuity: During the distant view of the helicopter assault on Piz Gloria towards the end of the film, a helicopter that is slowly approaching the building at the far right of the screen (widescreen DVD version), suddenly vanishes into thin air and then reappears as a landed ‘copter just one second later.
  7. Continuity: During the helicopter attack one helicopter suddenly shifts position. This can be seen when the tail shifts upward about 15 degrees.
  8. Audio/visual unsynchronised: At one point, Tracy kisses her father goodbye, yet we hear her voice continue to speak clearly.
  9. Continuity: When Bond is talking to Tracy at the beginning in the casino restaurant, Tracy is resting her chin on her hand. When she says, “People who want to stay alive play it safe,” she lowers her hand and leans forward. The shot changes and she is resting her chin on her hand again without having time to return to that position.
  10. Audio/visual unsynchronised: In the stock-car scene, when Tracy says “James. How do we get out?” her lips aren’t moving to match her speech.
  11. Continuity: Bond’s body position changes too quickly, from shot to shot, at least twice, during the conversation with the real Sir Hillary at the Royal College of Arms.
  12. Continuity: When Bond is first summoned from the dinner to meet with Blofeld in his office, Gruther assists him in putting on his overcoat. Bond puts both arms in the sleeves but when he arrives at the office he is wearing the coat draped over his shoulders as can clearly be seen as Grunther slips it off.
  13. Continuity: When Bond meets Blofeld for the first time Blofeld starts to undo the buttons on his jacket. When we next cut back to Blofeld, his buttons are all done up.
  14. Revealing mistake: Flipped shot: In one shot where both Bond and Draco are shown in the cockpit, the Huey behind them has the tail rotor on starboard but all other shots show the tail rotors on port.
  15. Continuity: After Fraulein Bunt sees the girls off in the van, a car with 3 Blofeld henchmen pulls up. They honk to her and the man riding shotgun gets out and lets her into the front passenger seat. He gets in the back. But in the next shot of the car’s occupants, Bunt is in the back with a man to her left and one in front of her…
  16. Continuity: During the attack on the Piz Gloria, one of the scientists throws a large beaker at a glass double-door before Bond gets to it, splattering a purple liquid across both doors near the handles. The next shot shows a close-up with a large hole burned through the left glass door at head level surrounded by gray char marks as Bond walks through the opened right door. The next shot has Bond through the doors, which are closed, intact and clean.
  17. Continuity: When Bond is emptying out his desk, he takes out a belt with a knife on it and places it on top of the desk. Two shots later it is seen back in the drawer, then back on top of the desk.
  18. Miscellaneous: When Bond is escorted to Draco’s office in the Rolls Royce you can see that the tarpaulin covering the electric folding top is in place. A few moments later the folding top is being closed. This is only possible if the tarpaulin is removed before.
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