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Continuity Error in "A Scandal in Bohemia"!


Brontodon

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In keeping with our long history of picking nits out of Sherlockiana, I'd like to show you all a continuity error I have discovered in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes episode "A Scandal in Bohemia."  I'm referring to the Granada Television series starring Jeremy Brett.  Here is a link to the episode on YouTube:

Observe Holmes seated at the mirror at time index 7:22. The camera shifts to Watson reading the note.  When the camera shifts back to Holmes at time 7:43, note his attire!

BTW, this is an excellent episode, one of my favorites!

 

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2 hours ago, Brontodon said:

When the camera shifts back to Holmes at time 7:43, note his attire!

He was in a brown dressing gown, and a mere 21 seconds later, he's wearing a black suit coat or dinner jacket.  Either it's a continuity error or else he's a quick-change artist!  I'm tempted to guess the latter, since they do seem to be expecting an important potential client (the King, I suppose) to call at any moment.  Perhaps the scene as originally filmed gave Holmes somewhat more time to change, but then some of that time had to be left on the cutting-room floor?

 

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I think it's a continuity error.  Holmes was busy with his fingers or nails or whatever he was doing there, and I don't get the impression that he got up to change jackets and then sat down again.

I do love the line (at 9:13), "Only a German is so uncourteous to his verbs," but I'm not sure "uncourteous" is really a word.  Shouldn't it have been "discourteous"?

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3 hours ago, Brontodon said:

I'm not sure "uncourteous" is really a word.  Shouldn't it have been "discourteous"?

I had to look it up, but "uncourteous" is indeed a word, a very old word in fact, dating back at least 800 years.  I too have mostly heard "discourteous," though, so perhaps "uncourteous" is a mostly British word, or perhaps it's dying out.

 

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