The moving wall


In the IMDB goofs section for Quantez there is this comment:

In the night scene where the minstrel rides out, the general store windows are lit from within and obviously connected to the saloon interior thus showing the set storefronts are a single facade and not individual exteriors. It's a common mistake in old westerns.


https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050872/goofs/?tab=gf&ref_=tt_trv_gf

But in the scene where they first enter Quantez, there is a scene inside the building. They enter into the dark general store and walk around and eventually bright light is coming in through the swinging saloon doors. Thus the general store and the saloon seem to be at different ends of the same large room.

So the lights from the saloons where they are holed up shine through the general store because the General store and the saloon are part of the same room, and the goof is not really a goof.

Except that there is a scene where someone enters the saloon through the swinging saloon doors and an interior wall can be seen cutting off the general store part of the room. This means that the lights in the saloon would not light up the general store and light would not come out of the general store windows.

So does that room have a dividing wall that comes and goes?

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