Some of the anachronisms cited above are nitpicky - who is likely to know that a particular key is for an Italian lock? But the more obvious ones, such as the parking lineson the streets - are irritating, pull you right out of the film, and are easily avoided.
A few more:
One of the characters says *beep* - very unlikely for 1950 Scotland.
The police car sirens (which are very noticeable) didn't exist at the time - they would have been bells.
All the men's hair is too long.
By the way, the "beep" was inserted by IMDB. The word in question refers to the excretory matter of male bovines.
shareAnd I didn't see a single person in the movie wearing eyeglasses. In 1950, probably a third of the people would be wearing glasses.
shareI have to take exception about the eyeglasses. I grew up in the Fifties and recall very few people wearing glasses. It could have been that one would go to a doctor occasionally but not an optometrist; also, for many people, glasses might seem an expense they could do without. I likely needed glasses from a very young age but did not have them till I was 16. Meanwhile, scarcely any classmates wore them, and not "a third" of any group wore glasses.
I grew up in a village of 300 people then moved to a larger city. I live in the Midwest, so we're rather routine I'd say.
I'm not far into this, so I'm not sure how well they'll present the period. Actually, I recall reading about this incident, as I was an oddly studious child, even clipping stories out of the newspaper.
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