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Silent Running (1972) More at IMDbPro »

• Continuity: Freeman's damaged leg swaps sides.
  
  
• Continuity: A droid hands Freeman a small gray book, about 5x7 inches, but in a closer scene we see a much larger book.
  
  
• Continuity: Early in the movie it's established that the galley is on the starboard side of the ship; the final shot of the vessel shows the lighted galley window on the port side.
  
  

• Continuity: When Lowell is playing pool the robot is dropping the balls into the center pocket. There are two small air lines connected to the ball gripper. The camera cuts to a wider shot and you can see the robot has set the ball gripper on the table. The airlines have somehow disconnected themselves. It picks up the nine ball rack with its main gripper and drops it off on the table. It then picks up the ball gripper. There are no air lines connected to the ball gripper at this moment. The movie briefly cuts to back to Lowell while the robot retrieves the first ball. When it returns you can clearly see the air lines have been reconnected to the ball gripper.
  
  
• Continuity: During the second Joan Baez song there is a brief shot of the Valley Forge turned around and traveling backward.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Freeman is on an EVA line inspecting the destroyed Louie, he is wearing a lightweight blue flight suit, a thin helmet, and no life support/oxygen system. This is insufficient to protect him from the vacuum of space.
  
  
• Continuity: In all the forest domes, entry to the forest is shown to be through a tunnel in the rim of the dome. However, no connection of this kind can be seen in any of the exterior shots of the domes. Moreover, when the domes are jettisoned, the shots of the pylons connecting the domes to the ship reveal barely enough room for the ejection system engines. There does not seem to be any kind of connection which would indicate an access tunnel.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): In the finale, the detonator held by Lowell has a misspelled label "Nuclear Detornator."
  
  

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