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• Crew or equipment visible: Reflected in a storefront window, in a drive-by shot of the campaign headquarters.
  
  
• Continuity: Fare on meter when Travis' passenger is the cuckolded husband.
  
  
• Continuity: The length of Travis' sleeves (after cutting one off).
  
  

• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Iris's sunglasses change from green to blue when they're having breakfast. This is a character quirk; she changes her glasses periodically, as the person Iris was modeled on did this.
  
  
• Continuity: Number of slices of toast when Iris and Travis are in the diner
  
  
• Continuity: When meeting with Betsy for the first time at the Palantine-supporters office, an overhead shot of Travis shows him beginning to sweep his arm through the air above the desk, but when we immediately cut back to a frontal shot of Travis we see his arms are clearly in the same position as before.
  
  
• Continuity: When Travis gets back into his cab after buying the Kris Kristofferson album, the beacon on the top reads "3S96", which is consistent with real New York taxis, which have their medallion number on their roof beacon. (Medallion numbers are always 4 digits, with the second being a letter.) In the next shot, the roof beacon reads "TAXI", which is never on a New York City taxi's roof beacon, but is often used in movies and TV shows.
  
  
• Continuity: Iris' hair when she is wearing the green sunglasses while having dinner with Travis. The glass into which Travis drops the paracetamol tablet suddenly appears in front of him. Previously we see that there was only a coffee cup there.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): In the anniversary note Travis sends his parents, he refers to July as being the month containing Fathers Day. In fact, Fathers Day is in June.
  
  
• Continuity: In an earlier version Iris's timekeeper discovers a weapon on Travis, disarms him, then returns it to him as he's leaving. This was later edited out, but the gun is still visible in the timekeeper's hand when he looks at his watch.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: In the rider-shot from Travis' point of view, when he passes the Palantine-supporters office to discover Betsy is not at her desk, there is a very clear reflection of the cameraman and gripper pushing the dolly.
  
  
• Continuity: When Travis puts the 380 Walther on the suitcase with the other guns, they are are side by side on the same angle, but in the next shot, the Walther is on the other angle.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: When Travis is negotiating with Matthew for Iris's services, you can hear an off-camera voice feeding Matthew the line: "But no rough stuff."
  
  
• Continuity: As Travis is leaving the garage after applying for a taxi driving job his jacket is unzipped. But in the next shot, Travis emerges onto the sidewalk with his jacket halfway zipped.
  
  
• Continuity: Travis burns the flowers in the sink, but shortly after that when he is putting money in an envelope you can still see the flowers on the floor behind him.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: When having coffee with Betsy for the first time, Travis' voice-over states that he had black coffee. A few moments later, the coffee is visible, and appears to be light brown.
  
  
• Continuity: Travis' hair length goes from shaggy to short and back to shaggy again.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): The black market gun dealer misidentifies the .380 Astra Constable in his case as a Walther PPK - however, this could easily be a mistake on his part or a deliberate misrepresentation with his sales pitch, given that the guns are extremely similar, and the Walther PPK name was and is much better-known. He tells Travis the Walther PPK .380 replaced the P-38 as the standard German military sidearm in WW2. That is incorrect; the P-38 (a full size pistol) replaced the P-08 (Luger) as the standard military sidearm. The PPK was a compact pistol for use by police (hence the PP in the name, Polizeipistole) and undercover/personal protection use, not as a combat sidearm.
  
  
• Continuity: When Travis stops in at the Bellmore and sits down with Wizard and Doughboy, he orders a cup of coffee. But seconds later, when he puts the Alka-Seltzer tablets into his water glass, there is a hamburger on his plate.
  
  
• Errors in geography: The address of the apartment building where Iris was living was 226 East 13th Street, as seen in the exterior shot, as well as the Then-and-Now Special Feature on the 2 disc DVD. Travis, however, writes the address as 240 East 13th Street on the envelope containing the letter and $500.
  
  
• Factual errors: The 'Colt .25' that Travis Bickle purchases from the black market arms dealer is, in fact, a Smith & Wesson Escort .22LR.
  
  
• Continuity: The prop weapons used were changed in various stages of shooting. When Travis buys the guns from Easy Andy, he buys a S&W model 61 when he was told he was buying a Colt .25, but when he was at the range later, he was firing a colt .25. Later in the 2nd range scene, the S&W Chief's Special .38 Travis bought from Easy Andy suddenly became a Colt Detective's Special.
  
  
• Continuity: After Travis shoots the guy robbing the store, while the shop owner is beating the corpse, the body goes from sitting up against the counter, to lying down, then back to sitting up between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: In the scene where Travis is talking to the Wizard (Peter Boyle) the shot goes to Travis' face where flashing lights appear on his face (from a police car- he is facing the street). The camera immediately goes to Boyle who is facing DeNiro and there is no police car behind him. It is not until seconds later that the cop pulls up (lights flashing) across the street.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Easy Andy introduces the .44 Magnum revolver by claiming it will "stop a car at a hundred yards, put a round right through the engine block." Such a bullet will not penetrate an engine block at that range, and the shooter will have little hope of damaging or disabling a component of the engine that will disable the vehicle (such as shorting out the battery or causing the coolant to drain out). However, it is fairly obvious that this is part of his sales bluster.
  
  
• Errors in geography: The Palantine headquarters was located on the east side of Broadway at 63rd Street, which means that traffic outside the building would only be headed north. But when Travis drives away after being confronted for the first time by Tom, he drives south.
  
  
• Continuity: Travis's hair style changes from scene to scene as he begins to plot his revenge. His hair is long in front as he sharpens his knife and builds the arm slide, then is shorter when he chats with the suspicious secret service agent, then long in front again as he practices in front of the mirror (the famous "Are you talkin' to me?" sequence), then short again as he watches a campaign appearance from his cab, then long as he kicks over his television, then finally short again as he visits Iris.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When the John Iris was with shoots Travis in the arm, the sound effect of a firing gun is heard a split second after the trigger is pulled.
  
  

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