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Bobby (2006) More at IMDbPro »

• Crew or equipment visible: In Samantha's glasses at the pool, you can see very clearly in the reflection the 20x20 white diffusion with crew members either standing or sitting in front of it.
  
  
• Continuity: The slogan "The once and future king" and the crown drawn on the kitchen wall change between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: In the opening sequence, Jose puts on his white jacket, buttons it at the neck and the collar is tucked in at the back. During the scene the collar becomes straight without his intervention.
  
  

• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Tim starts playing drums with the band, the sound of the cymbal doesn't match what he's playing.
  
  
• Anachronisms: During a conversation between John Casey and Nelson, there is close-up shot of Nelson: you can see that he is wearing an in-canal hearing aid in his left ear. These were not available in 1968.
  
  
• Anachronisms: Two college students and a waitress debate whether Anne Bancroft used a "body double" for a topless scene in The Graduate. In 1968, no one outside the film industry would have ever heard of this term which did not become widely-used by the public for at least ten or fifteen years, by which time such stand-ins had became common.
  
  
• Continuity: When Jimmy and Cooper are sitting in the coffee shop, Cooper holds up the camera and the lever on the bottom is pulled back. Then, when the shot comes back to them, the lever is forward and Jimmy reaches over and pulls it back.
  
  
• Factual errors: The credits include the closing speech detailing the speech as "Robert F. Kennedy's speech, 'On The Mindless Menace of Violence.' The credits say it was delivered in Indianapolis, Indiana on April 5, 1968. This is incorrect; Robert Kennedy gave a speech on Martin Luther King, Jr.'s death in Indianapolis on the previous day but gave the speech presented on the recording at the City Club of Cleveland in Cleveland, Ohio.
  
  
• Anachronisms: The Ambassador Hotel's lobby scene, in which John Casey and Nelson talk, shows Casey wearing a quartz watch. It was June 1968. The world's first commercial quartz wristwatch, the Seiko Astron, would only be introduced in December 1969.
  
  
• Anachronisms: In the scene where Samantha and Jack are playing tennis, if you look behind the ivy in the background you can see present day traffic. The movie takes place in 1968.
  
  

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