The Day the Earth Stood Still

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• Movie Goof (errors made by characters, possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): After Bobby follows Klaatu to the spaceship at night, he tells his mother that he followed him to the mall. Also, immediately on landing, an excited pedestrian yells that they landed on the mall. In fact, the opening aerial shot clearly shows that the ship landed on the White House Ellipse, not the mall.
• Movie Goof (continuity error): Drew Pearson's desk doesn't have any pens on it when he starts his broadcast. There are two pens directly in front of him on the desk when the camera angle changes.
• Movie Goof (audio/visual unsynchronized): Three muzzle flashes, one report! In the close-up of the quick-triggered soldier atop the tank turret, we see and hear him fire his pistol, but for the sharp-eyed, the wide-shot of the tank crew that follows, reveals the visible but silent muzzle flash of both soldiers' side arms.
• Bernard Herrmann's music for the film is scored for two theremins, pianos, harps, different electrical organs, percussion, amplified solo strings and a large brass section including four tubas.