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Annie (1982) More at IMDbPro »

• Anachronisms: Set in 1933, yet it features Camille (1936), which premiered in 1936.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Punjab "levitates" the model airplane, you can see cables attached to the wingtips.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When climbing the bridge, it is obvious that the "Annie" climbing there is a stand in, since she is as tall as Rooster following her.
  
  

• Audio/visual unsynchronized: During a tap dance on the stair in the last musical number, the tap sounds don't synch with shoes.
  
  
• Continuity: Miss Hannigan makes the orphans get up "in the middle of the night," but it is mid morning minutes later.
  
  
• Anachronisms: When Grace sings "Lets Go to the Movies," she refers to "sweet Shirley Temple." Temple became a star in 1934. In 1933, she mostly acted in short subjects for Educational Pictures.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Grace plays the harp in a big production scene, she plays it from the wrong side.
  
  
• Continuity: Molly plays with Annie's locket, and Annie puts her arms around her so that Molly's hand is underneath. In the next shot Molly's arm is over Annie's.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Miss Hannigan is dancing toward Rooster, Rooster looks to be saying something completely different to her.
  
  
• Anachronisms: Although the movie is set in 1933, the helicopter is flying past the 1982 New York City skyline.
  
  
• Anachronisms: Set in 1933, however in Daddy Warbucks' office, there is a model of a German Stukka divebomber (Junkers JU87). The prototype of this aircraft wasn't even flown secretly by Germany until 1935.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: In the song, "Little Girls", as Miss Hannigan shoos the orphans out of the room and the camera zooms in on her, the shadow of the boom mic coming closer is visible and, in widescreen, a crewmember's arm is visible for a split second on the right hand side of the screen.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: In the song "You're Never Fully Dressed" when an orphan is climbing down the chest of drawers, she sings "and not from head to toe" but her mouth doesn't say "toe".
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When the orphans are locked in the closet, and Pepper is trying to get out through the ceiling, you can hear the girls still on the floor talking to each other. When we see them, they aren't saying anything.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: Annie escapes, and a police officer brings her back. When the policeman rings the doorbell with his nightstick, it misses the button, but the bell rings anyway. You can hear the stick slip off the doorbell and hit the wall.
  
  
• Continuity: On the B&O Bridge, one of Annie's shoes falls off when she is dangling. In the next shot, she is wearing 2 shoes.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Rooster knocks out Miss Hannigan before the bridge climb, you can hear the punch before he hits her.
  
  
• Continuity: Before Annie and Rooster reach the top of the B&O Bridge, Rooster makes a grab for one of Annie's legs, but misses. Annie stops climbing for a second; you can see both of her feet on the top step at the top of the screen. In the wide shot she is climbing again, with her feet on different steps.
  
  
• Continuity: Grace's shoes are different before "We Got Annie".
  
  
• Continuity: The orphans seem to multiply during the musical numbers.
  
  
• Anachronisms: The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer logo seen before the screening of "Camille" is the 1982 version, not the 1933 version.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When Mr. Warbucks tells Annie about himself, you can tell that Annie is wearing Keds, which were very popular at the time of filming, by the tell-tale blue rubber stamp on her heel. Keds canvas sneakers have been around since 1916.
  
  
• Anachronisms: When the orphans sing "You're Never Fully Dressed Without A Smile", one of the orphans uses a liquor bottle as a microphone, then carelessly throws it over her shoulder where it obviously falls to the floor, but doesn't shatter. Plastic bottles were not in use in 1933. Polyethylene, which is used to make most plastic bottles, wasn't even invented until 1933 and wasn't capable of being produced in vast quantities until 1936.
  
  
• Anachronisms: In the musical number "Sign", Miss Hannigan's bathroom contains several large bottles of her bathtub gin, and she even drinks from one during the number. These bottles are label-less 16-oz. Sheaffer Skrip "master" ink bottles, easily identifiable by their shape (similar to the CN Tower). However, Skrip master ink bottles didn't come in this shape until the 1950s. In the 1930s, Skrip master ink bottles were cylindrical, with grooves running around the top & bottom 1/4 of them.
  
  
• Continuity: When Hannigan and Rooster are searching through the closet, an air vent in the top apparently leads directly up to the upstairs bathroom, as the other orphans can overhear the plan from there. Later on, when the other orphans are locked in the closet, they escape through this same air vent, which this time leads to the roof.
  
  
• Factual errors: The featured movie Camille (1936) would not have run at Radio City Music Hall. Camile was released by MGM and Radio City was owned by a competing studio, RKO Pictures. In those days, you did not cross theaters with studios. Only RKO was shown at Radio City where as Camile would have to have gone to an MGM house to be shown.
  
  
• Anachronisms: Annie took place around 1931-32, but the movie they saw, "Camille", came out in 1936.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: During the song "Let's Go to the Movies" after Annie tap dances behind the curtain, Grace comes out and they continue dancing. As the camera circles around you can see a crew member in the reflection of the vanity mirror behind them.
  
  

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