Australia

At the end, when King George is waiting for Nullah to come on walkabout, the position of the spear he is holding changes angles several times - from straight up to 45 degrees from his body to straight up again.

When The Drover rescues the children, he is holding the youngest one as they enter the water.

When the camera cuts back, he's holding a rifle.

Then he is holding onto the raft with the others without a gun, and the action continues to switch between him holding and not holding the gun.

When it starts to rain and you see Drover with his coat off and over his shoulder, there are brown mud spots all over his shirt sleeve and jacket.

In the very next shot the spots are gone and he appears to be wearing a clean shirt.

When Nullah "pulls up" at Faraway Downs and prepares to dismount from his horse, someone is holding the horse by a visible lead line (third rein).

As Nullah gallops back to Faraway Downs after mounting the horse in the waterhole, there is a dust trail visible in front of his horse.

Evidently someone is galloping ahead of him to ensure that his mount will follow, since Nullah is obviously too small to control an animal safely at speed.

Drover begins lassoing a horse in a circular corral holding the lasso in the rope with his right hand.

In obvious continuous motion, we see it in his left hand after a cut, then back to his right hand after the next cut.

In the scene in which Sarah first meets Nullah, she is speaking to him with her left hand near her chest.

In obvious consecutive action, it suddenly appears at her side after a cut, then, after the next cut, suddenly back near her chest.

Lady Sarah Ashley's mount - the last before she leaves England - has what appears to be a freeze brand on his shoulder.

Freeze branding was invented in the 1960s and used as ID for valuable horses in the 1980s.

During their trip to Darwin the group is resting at night, when suddenly Fletcher's guys pour out the gasoline and light it up.

When the fire is lit it is pitch black and the stars can be seen.

Then the stampede starts and suddenly it is in the middle of the day.

An Australian newspaper advertises _The Wizard of Oz (1939)_ (qv) in a scene marked 1939.

This film was not released in Australia until April 1940.

When Lady Ashley tells Drover to either stay at Faraway Downs or never return, Drover slams the white gate shut behind him as he storms out.

In the next scene the gate is wide open again.

Late in the movie the barman can be seen with crates of Victoria Bitter.

This beer or "VB" as it is known is the local beer in the southern state of Victoria was not available in other areas of Australia until the 1970s.

In an early scene, the Drover's truck is running beside some bounding kangaroos.

The leg action of the kangaroos does not match the speed they are moving at - the swing backwards is stopping too soon.

The Japanese planes are shown dropping torpedoes on land based targets.

While maybe appropriate for the ships in the harbor, no pilot would use a torpedo for a land-based target.

In the first "tent" scene between Drover, Sarah and the Aboriginal stockmen, Drover speaks to Sarah whilst cleaning his teeth.

A close inspection of his toothbrush reveals that it is not 1939-vintage.

It has dark bristles in the centre and white bristles around the outside.

Also the toothbrush has an oral-dynamic shape, with a pointed end.

In 1939 toothbrushes were not this sophisticated.

They were rectangle-shaped with white bristles.

In the ball scene, Sarah suddenly appears in a close-up with her make-up redone.

Her lipstick was the most obvious change.

Sometimes during the attack scenes, the aircraft wheels are retracted; other times the wheels are extended while dropping bombs or firing at ground targets.

This is not a goof, since the planes with extended landing gears are expected to be Aichi D3A "Val" bombers.

This kind of plane had fixed landing gears.

Other Japanese planes were Mitsubishi "Zeke" (or "Zero") fighters.

The "Zekes" were embarked aircraft with retractable landing gears.

At the charity ball the song 'Aquarela do Brasil', composed by 'Ary Barroso' (qv) in 1939, is heard.

The song was first recorded by 'Aracy Cortes' (qv) but was unknown outside of Brasil until it was sung by 'Carmen Miranda (I)' (qv) in _The Gang's All Here (1943)_ (qv).

In the scene where Sarah and Nullah first meet in the house, Nullah's shell necklace disappears and reappears from shot to shot.

In the scene when Sarah asks Flynn to tell her all about Faraway Downs and Fletcher, Flynn pulls out of his stock a full bottle of rum.

In the close-up shot when he is opening it, it's another kind of bottle, not entirely filled with rum.

In the next scene, he is again holding the (opened) former bottle.

In the scene when Drover storms away from Faraway Downs after his argument with Sarah, the traces of the camera truck in front of his horse are clearly visible in the Sand.

As the Japanese air-strike starts, a priest makes a transmission from Mission Island, and ends it with "over and out".

The correct way to end it is saying "out", as "over" means you are giving the word to the person you are talking to.

As the refugee boat enters the harbor after the attack, they pass the bombed and obviously destroyed remains of the ship Barossa lying on her side and burning.

History, however, records that the Barossa, although heavily damaged was towed to safety and later salvaged.

When the cattle stampede wakes everyone up, the hat that Drover places on Lady Sarah's head is black.

However, in a wide shot, it is a light beige.

On arriving at the mission ball, Drover is freshly shaved.

However, when discussing the Wet with Lady Sarah, he has stubble.

After Sarah Ashley fired Neil Fletcher, she talks to Kipling Flynn.

He takes a new bottle of rum, but when he opens it, it is empty.

It is also a different kind of bottle, the empty one is more straight, while the full one is more round.

After the title, when the animated globe switches from Australia to Europe, Serbia and Montenegro are already shown as separate states.

Near the end of the film, when Sarah and Nullah are gathering wood, Nullah has wood in his arms.

The next shot, meant to be an exact continuation of the previous shot, shows him about to turn around to Sarah - but the wood is gone.

When Lady Sarah Ashley is on the telephone switchboard in Darwin she is shown wearing a headset that was not invented until the 1960s.

Prior to that the microphone was on a separate breastplate hung round the neck.

In the scene where Nullah has just been taken away to Mission Island and Fletcher comes over to speak to Sarah, Sarah is holding her hat in one hand.

She hastily switches it over to her other hand, but in the next cut, it is back in the hand it started in.

Sarah mentions "a wonderful School of the Air" when discussing Nullah's future.

A School of the Air is a method of education in Australia - essentially, a correspondence course - using shortwave radio (and, now, the internet) to teach children in the outback.

For instance, the Alice Springs School of the Air covers over a million square kilometers.

However, Schools of the Air did not come into existence until 1951.

There is character in the filmed named Administrator Allsop (played by 'Barry Otto (I)' (qv)), who is the Monarch's representative in the Northern Territory.

However, at the time the actual Administrator was in fact named Aubrey Abbott, who served from 1937 to 1946.

Outback night sky shows incorrect Big Dipper constellation.

This cannot be observed in southern hemisphere, especially from Australia.

Southern Cross not the North Star should have been shown.

After the title, when the animated globe switches from Australia to Europe, Nazi Germany has Germany's modern borders.

In 1939 the Third Reich included what is now west Poland, as well East Prussia/Koenigsberg (now Kaliningrad) next to Lithuania, Austria (1938) and Sudetenland from the Czech lands.

When King Carney hands the pen to Captain Dutton to sign the sales contract its black cap is up, when the camera angle changes it's down in his hand.

After Drover cuts the rope to block Carney's people from loading their cattle, the door goes down right in front of a cattle.

A moment later, shot from another angle, there is no cattle in the passage.

After several references to the tradition that one can't say the name of the dead, Nullah says "Flynn" after Flynn's death.

The Japanese did not land troops on any island near Darwin.

In one of the last scenes, the Drover and Lady Ashley cross the Pentecost river on their way back from Darwin to Faraway downs.

They are, however, crossing in the wrong direction, traveling towards the Cockburn Range (which definitely looks more spectacular than the other side of the river) but there's really no way anyone would cross the Pentecost in this direction on their way from Darwin.

Nullah's pinto pony, which has distinctive markings, changes to another pinto (possibly several) throughout scenes and from scene to scene, probably to accommodate a stunt rider.

When the Japanese patrol arrives at the beach, they cannot see the 30 foot sailboat close enough to shore that little children could walk or easily swim out to it.

Copper Callahan, and his men arrive at Faraway Downs looking to take Nullah and don't find him.

However, while they are driving up to the ranch, Nullah and Daisy can be seen climbing the water tower ladder as the truck is facing in that direction.

As they are leaving, two of the policemen are seen sitting in the bed of the truck as it pulls away.

People on the station are running toward the water tower in obvious distress, Jackman climbing the ladder to retrieve Nullah and Daisy, in full view of the coppers in the truck bed as it is no further than 50 yards away, yet, the truck makes no response to the obvious activity in full view of them.

When Fletcher gets into the pickup truck to leave Faraway Downs, he gets into the left-hand seat and drives away with the steering wheel on the left-hand side.

Australian vehicles are typically equipped with steering wheel and driving controls on the right-hand side because Australian traffic drives on the left-hand side of the road.

When Lady Ashley, Drover, and the children are reunited on the wharf, a military ambulance seen behind them is also shown in other battle scenes at different locations in the same time setting.

The hood ID numbers are the same.

Maitland is shown being murdered in a so-called "billabong".

A billabong is a small lake of stagnant water when cutoff from the river.

The scene and subsequent map show this one to be a pool attached to the river.

When Drover shows up at the ball freshly shaved, there is no tan line from where his beard once was.

Since he spends all his time out in the intense sun, the bottom half of his face would surely be paler.

In one scene, the Union Flag is flown upside down.

During the Charity Ball the bandleader calls for a foxtrot.

The band plays "Begin the Beguine" which is not a foxtrot.

After the cattle stampede, the cattle are shown running backwards.

In the ball scene Sarah is wearing a gown with a strapless satin red inner, but when she and Drover make love that time her inner had changed to a pink satin one with straps.

When a clip from the beginning of _The Wizard of Oz (1939)_ (qv) is shown, it is presented in the wrong way later often seen on television, i.

In plain black-and-white, whereas upon the time of its original theatrical run those sequences would've been in the correct sepia-toned black-and-white.

When Drover jumps the corral fence with his horse and knocks the top rail off, you can see the string that was barely holding it in place go flying off the end of the rail where it was barely holding it in place.

Near the beginning of the movie, the Aboriginal boy rides a black horse and then jumps off the animal.

As he is jumping off the horse, you can clearly see the lead rein hooked to the bridle that a horse trainer is holding to keep the horse from moving during the scene.

When first coming to Fareaway Downs Copper Callahan introduces himself as "Northern Territory Police".

On the map in King Carney's office which is shown during the arrival of Lady Ashley, Faraway Downs is entirely located in Western Australia.

In the various newspaper stories, particularly the one about the Never-Never, there are a number of repeated paragraphs.