[78-L] The new Sherlock Holmes film has an Improved Gramophone...

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Mon Dec 26 08:06:22 PST 2011


It has to do with the playing of a record..3 errors in one image.

dl

On 12/26/2011 10:58 AM, neechevoneeznayou at gmail.com wrote:
> Haven't seen it yet. What to look for?
>
> joe salerno
>
>
> On 12/25/2011 10:56 PM, David Lennick wrote:
>> Anyone catch a couple of goofs in "The Artist" yet (fabulous movie otherwise)?
>>
>> dl
>>
>> On 12/25/2011 11:52 PM, Michael Shoshani wrote:
>>> My family and I went to see the new Sherlock Holmes film today. It had
>>> quite a few ...um, shall we say, endearing anachronisms. However, the
>>> one that got my full attention was a Berliner Improved Gramophone.
>>>
>>> Either it's authentic or a damn good replica. Correct wide flat
>>> traveling arm, correct leather coupling between the sound box and the
>>> brass horn, and even the correct Clark-Johnson sound box.  In fact, the
>>> only thing wrong with this Berliner Improved Gramophone was that it
>>> somehow made its way to London in 1891, which is where and when the film
>>> is set.  :) (Johnson would not deliver his machine to Berliner until
>>> 1896, and England really didn't get them until, I believe, 1898.)
>>>
>>> MS
>>>


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