- Plates of cars in the background
Ah.... Nice to know I'm not the only one looking at that!
Somewhat off-topic, but you might find this website of interest for identification -- Pictures of every standard issue U.S. and Canadian license plate from 1969 to the present:
http://www.15q.net/ (I also have a book on the history of U.S. plates which goes right back to the beginnings.)
Hollywood tend to place American outlets in any place of the world... Swedish films of course feature Swedish outlets anywhere.
I remember watching an old episode of Mission Impossible once in what was supposed to be a London hotel. The operation involved considerable rewiring and general "fiddling" with the building's electrical system for the usual sort of deception.
Yep, you guessed it -- Every switch and outlet in the place was American!
I'm always looking out for telephone-related things as well. In fact mistakes on phones is a subject which crops up in some telecom discussion groups quite often -- Things like sound effects using the wrong type of bell for the phone which is supposedly ringing, or the very common "ding ding" gong sounds as coins are deposited in a single-slot coinphone (the bells were used on the older 3-slot models). That's not to mention things like coinphones which are supposedly in New York or Chicago but have Pac-Bell logos on them!
I'm not singling out Hollywood by the way. British poductions often contain just as many errors.
BTW: Do those weird American paper bags without handles you see in films exist in reality?
Yes.
[This message has been edited by pauluk (edited 01-11-2006).]