Has anyone discussed why the live newscasts right before the lights go out in the farmhouse, (around 1:20), are in BROAD DAYLIGHT?? The newscast was set for 3:00 am. Nowhere in the US would it be broad daylight.
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shareback in the 1960s, very few "on location" news reports were live remote. the networks owned that kind of technology (and they even used it once in a while, on very special occasions), but the average local news show didn't have it because it was too newfangled & expensive. so the guy in the TV studio is live, but the outdoor stuff was filmed earlier in the day. he even says so. our reporters have just come back from filming.
it isn't a continuity error. it's just that things worked differently back then, and generally the outdoor images going into a news camera did not instantaneously make their way to the TV screen. they used photochemical film, they had to transport the film, develop the film, etc and all of that took time to do.
it wasn't until later with the proliferation of microwave transmitters; more TV satellites with greater bandwidth; and ultimately wireless internet, that we arrived at this point where we can have around the clock "instant news" on TV. in the '60s? psh, forget about it. it was a bunch of guys running around with cans of celluloid film back then.
Yeah, I was going to say I just figured it was a broadcast from earlier in the day, that's what always made sense to me.
shareYeah, I know it's been four years but I'll throw in my two cents. If you look into the filming locations for the news report scenes (filmed with the iron bridge in the background), you'll discover that that location is literally only a quarter of a mile North from the main characters in the farmhouse!
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