Catch-22

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• The town of Ferrara in the movie is depicted as a small village on a hill, very close to the sea. The real Ferrara is actually a town on the plain, 50 km (30 miles) from the sea.
• Movie Goof (continuity error): When the camera view of the conversation between Nately and the old man in the whorehouse changes as Yossarian enters the room the old man's suspenders vanish.
• The popular scene of Hungry Joe being cut in two by the airplane and falling into the water was done in two steps. In shot one, a plane runs into a breakaway dummy that was rigged to spray blood. After a cutaway, the second shot shows an actor or stuntman in front of the sky, holding a mirror in front of him angled to reflect more sky to match what is in back of him, making the top part of his body disappear. He then falls backward into the water making the trick become visible to the camera. Albert Whitlock did the post production work and rotoscope matted in more water and horizon around the legs and waist to hide the mirror and top part of the body when it was exposed. Look for the patch of slightly different colored water that appears and disappears as the legs fall in. In the commentary Mike Nichols remembers the part about using the mirror but was unaware of, or forgot about the post production finishing of the scene.
• Movie Goof (continuity error): When the "crashed" bomber "explodes" off-camera to the left the "blast" comes from behind the camera's right and causes Cathcart and Milo's hats to fly off their heads. If you look closely Cathcart's hat flies off and out of the Jeep. Milo's hat lands behind Cathcart. They then pick up and put on hats from their laps.