Ok, so maybe these are stretching it a little, but....
1) It looks like he took cling-film of his midflight sandwich - it wasn't invented until 1953 (I suppose it could be cellophane invented in 1900).
2) The sandwich looks like it is sliced bread rather than standard loaf, but sliced bread didn't come in till 1928, a year after the film is set. Or maybe they could just cut bread better than I can!
What the hell are you talking about? The sandwich was wrapped in wax paper!
shareNope, wasn't wax paper. Definitely cellophane.
I love spotting anachronisms in Tv and movies. I didn't get those though.
Looked like wax paper to me.
shareI'm watching the movie right now and it was waxed paper.
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Just watched it and paused it. Definitely waxed paper. The bread looked the pre-sliced that wasn't marketed until a year later. Could have been someone really handy with a knife.
shareIt was wax paper and an obvious factory cut slice of bread. Does it really matter?
What i thought was most interesting was that there seemed to be almost nothing in the sandwich. Not like today where you will pay $8.99 for a sandwich at a restaurant bacvk then it was a Thin slice of meat and some mustard.
I figured it was the egg sandwich that they made for him. It's been awhile since I saw the film but I think one of them was egg. That would make for a slim profile..
Of course, that's one of the reasons people were skinny back then. They didn't eat as much.
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Whether it was waxed or not, it was most certainly paper. As for the factory-sliced bread, that was in "Goofs"; besides, assumptions aside, there's no way to say with certainty that it was pre-sliced. And as "goofs" go, wouldn't that be one of the least consequential ones? (I suppose he's wearing post-1927 socks, too.)
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Nice point about the socks!
Whatever happened to The Suspension of Disbelief? It seems many people have to find the tiniest, most irrelevant errors and then boast as if they found the rest of the Dead Sea scrolls under thier butt...
Just saw this scene on TCM, it was wax paper, very cheeep! wax paper.
shareWhen you're watching a movie purporting to be a relatively accurate story of a man's life and principle achievement, disbelief is something you shouldn't suspend.
I remember seeing the front page of The New York Times story of his flight, with a sub-headline saying, "Ate Only One and a Half of His Sandwiches". I thought it was funny that this fact was deemed important enough to put among the smaller headlines on the story.
Somewhere I once read what Lindbergh's five sandwiches were but can't remember now. I think one of the ones he ate was ham. But they were wrapped in wax paper, and somebody sliced the bread himself.
It also just occurred to me that, for all the progress in aviation since 1927, in terms of in-flight food we're right back where Lindy started from!
No suspension necessary... he used garters!