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Carnival of Souls (1962)

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• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Mary Henry plays the organ, her finger and foot actions do not match the organ music on the soundtrack.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: Mary Henry's footfalls don't match her on-screen steps as she dashes into and through bus depot.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: Camera crew reflected in the boys' car during drag race.
  
  

• Revealing mistakes: The coffee cups are translucent when neighbor brings coffee which reveals that they have only poured an inch in each and that they're not drinking.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: Many of the long shots were looped in the crowd scene following the accident, and other shots were dubbed with the audio track from other shots with which they were intercut. The audio and the mouth movements of the actors drift in and out of sync across the various shots in this scene.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Mary Henry's hair is dry and blows in the breeze right after she has supposedly climbed out of the water.
  
  
• Continuity: When Mary falls into her trance the night she is playing organ alone in church, we see that she is playing the organ's pedals with her bare feet. But when the minister interrupts her playing and fires her, and she gets up from the organ to leave the church, she is wearing black loafers. Then when she steps outside the front steps to meet the waiting neighbor guy, she is wearing white heels.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the scene where Mary is first in the doctor's office her arm is on the desk, then in the next shot it's on the arm chair.
  
  
• Continuity: In the department store where Mary discovers she is "invisible" she goes down an aisle with both hands out to her sides and clearly has no purse. The scene cuts to her leaving the store where she now has her purse.
  
  
• Continuity: In the racing scene the driver of the white car is quite active at the steering wheel while the car keeps going straight forward. At the end of the scene, she pulls the steering wheel to the left while the car moves extremely to the right side.
  
  

• Revealing mistakes: SPOILER: In the film's final shot, the left eyelid of one of the "dead" young women in the car noticeably twitches.
  
  

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