Seabiscuit

In the paddock scenes, the bronze statue of 'Seabiscuit' (qv) is clearly visible.

The "wild" mustangs that 'Tom Smith (XIII)' (qv) is chasing at the beginning of the movie are shod.

In the montage of still photographs purporting to show the first year of the Great Depression, a truck is visible with a 1937 license plate.

'Seabiscuit' (qv) continually changes from a light honey bay to a dark reddish bay.

He also grows and shrinks throughout the film, and his mane switches sides.

A horse's mane falls to one side or the other, it doesn't change from side to side.

When they allow 'Red Pollard' (qv) to ride 'Seabiscuit' (qv) into a field to "teach him to be a horse again", 'Charles Howard (IV)' (qv)'s car has a modern "antique auto" license plate.

Before the final (Santa Anita) race, 'Red Pollard' (qv) laces his leg brace in the front of his shin.

During the race, the brace is laced on the outside of his calf.

'Red Pollard' (qv)'s father calls his wife Agnes.

Red's mother's name was actually Edith.

Red's future wife (who we do not meet in the film) is named Agnes.

'War Admiral' (qv) is repeatedly referred to as being 18 hands vs.

'Seabiscuit' (qv)'s 15 hands.

The horses were actually the same height, with some sources listing Seabiscuit as the heavier of the two.

In the third race, when Tick-Tock beats Crow Segment and they sell out the infield, 'Seabiscuit' (qv)'s number is 4, except for one quick segment as they parade to the track.

Then, Seabiscuit's number is 5.

Late in the film, as 'Charles Howard (IV)' (qv) worries in the bleachers about letting 'Red Pollard' (qv) ride in the race, his wife Marcella plays with the marble game.

She keeps talking in the next shot, but her lips (at the top of frame) don't move as the audio finishes.

Towards the end of the movie, after 'Seabiscuit' (qv) has won the race at the Pimlico racetrack, a lit electronic scoreboard can be seen in the background.

Electronic scoreboards didn't exist in the 1930s.

During races at Santa Anita Park, a turf course is inside the dirt course.

Santa Anita's turf course was built in 1953.

In one of his voiceovers, Tick-Tock says, "The Iceman Cometh".

The phrase itself comes from the 'Eugene O'Neill (I)' (qv) play of the same title, which wasn't produced theatrically until 1946 and refers to 'George Woolf' (qv) who was called "The Iceman".

Though the phrase "The Iceman Cometh" isn't historically accurate, it is likely a reference to 'Jeff Bridges (I)' (qv)'s role in _The Iceman Cometh (1973)_ (qv).

The jockeys all wear clear plastic safety lenses, which weren't used until after World War II.

The jockeys have chin straps holding their hats on.

Jockeys' hats didn't have chin straps until the Caliente Safety Helmet was introduced in 1956.

When the little boy is buried, the lowering device for the casket is modern (post-1980s).

When Red exercises a friend's horse, and the horse bolts, you can see a blue jacket on the other side of the bush that the horse is falling over.

The bullring in Tijuana has a modern-day Telmex (Mexican phone company) logo.

During 'Seabiscuit' (qv)'s last race he's at the back of the pack racing against a dozen horses, but the groomed racetrack only shows three sets of horse tracks.

During the credits, a printing plate for a newspaper page is shown.

The lettering of the story and the headline "MATCH RACE" is the correct way round, whereas a printing plate is a mirror-image of the page that it prints.

The scenes at Pimlico and Santa Anita Racecourses show ovals equipped with the modern Fontana Safety rail, which is very wide at the top.

These rails were not adopted in the US until the late 1980s.

In the 1930s, the rails were narrow.

When 'Red Pollard' (qv) and 'Seabiscuit' (qv) are recuperating, Red asks the track guy to mow around a tree to make a sort of track.

The track guy brings out a push mower.

The grass he is cutting is higher than the blades.

A push mower won't cut grass that high, it will just push over it.

When the four principals attend a newsreel cinema in 1938, the on-screen announcer says that 'Seabiscuit' (qv) is "the biggest thing on four legs since Hope and Crosby.

" 'Bob Hope (I)' (qv) and 'Bing Crosby' (qv) didn't team up until _Road to Singapore (1940)_ (qv).

While Red is exercising a horse for his former boss, the "hand start" John Deere tractor makes a sound like an electric starter.

After a scene that takes place circa 1930, a subtitle reads "six years later.

" In the next scene, which takes place in Tijuana, the subtitles read "1933.

" During the runaway scene, the horse's reins change from brown braided leather reins to black rubber reins.

All-female mariachi groups did not exist until the 1970s.

In the 1930s and '40s, women were usually featured singers, rarely played an instrument, and never wore the male riding suit.

During 'Seabiscuit' (qv)'s Santa Anita Handicap win, he is running dead last early in the race.

The charts for the 1940 Santa Anita Handicap show Seabiscuit running no worse than fourth at any point during the race.

In fact, he was in perfect striking position around the first turn and down the backstretch.

Union Station in Los Angeles is shown as the location where 'Charles Howard (IV)' (qv) started the campaign to get a match race with 'War Admiral' (qv) in 1938.

However, the station did not open until 1939.

Before 'Seabiscuit' (qv) and 'Red Pollard' (qv)'s first race, when Seabiscuit is being loaded into the starting gate, you can see the Santa Anita racetrack sign in the background, with a digital scoreboard.

Digital scoreboards were first manufactured in the 1980's.

During an early scene showing Prohibition, the car pictured is a 1936 GM model.

However, Prohibition ended in the U.

in 1933.

Throughout the movie, various characters are using modern (precision adjustable-power) binoculars with plastic casing.

At Pimlico racetrack, the Maryland flag is upside down.

The Calvert family seal (gold and black) should be at the top of the pole.

The United States Flag at the Pimlico racetrack has 50 stars.

In the 1930s, there were only 48 states.

The car radio plays music as soon as it's turned on.

In the 1930s, all radios had vacuum tubes, which had to warm up for 10 to 15 seconds.

Flipped shotAfter the match race with 'War Admiral' (qv), there is a shot of the train returning west.

The numbers on the train are backwards.

"Six-month-old" 'Seabiscuit' (qv) is played by a much younger foal.

In one scene, the trainer is consulting with the jockey in the jockeys' room.

During the races, only jockeys are allowed in the jockeys' room When Red Pollard is in on the train going back to California, the number on the front of the train is a mirror image.

During the scene where Seabiscuit is being worked out after recuperating from his injury, Charles Howard sees Tick-Tock McLaughlin in the stands, reading a paper.

The paper switches back and forth from being closed to opened as the camera moves back and forth between them.

When Tick-Tock "interviews" the woman who says she wants to see a match race, he picks up the microphone off of the desk but it doesn't have a wire coming out of it.

In a wide shot establishing the Pimlico location before the match race with War Admiral, the Maryland state flag is shown flying upside down.

This is a common error in real life due to the unique design of the flag.

The black portion of the flag should be on top; not the red portion as reflected in the movie shot.

Red torments himself remembering how George beat him in a race saying, "Okey-doke, Johnny.

There's my hole; gotta fly".

George's actual words in the race were "Oops.

There's my hole; gotta go".

Famed horse trainer James "Sunny" Fitzsimmons is portrayed by Irish born actor Shay Duffin speaking with an Irish brogue.

Although he was of Irish ancestry the real Fitzsimmons was born and raised in Brooklyn New York.

Bing Crosby and Bob Hope are mentioned together as a comedy team, but they would not be united for the first time until "The Road to Singapore" in 1940.

In the movie Frankie Howard is shown to love reading a 'Flash Gordon' book.

Frankie died in 1926 and the Flash Gordon comic strip didn't start publication till 8 years later in 1934.

When Red is hung up in the stirrup on the runaway horse, his right foot is in the left stirrup.

Impossible, unless he was riding backwards.

When Red is hung up in the stirrup on the runaway horse, his right foot is in the left stirrup.

Impossible, unless he was riding backwards.

This is just a reverse Ratatouille! How could Pixar allow this for so long?!

Lovable movie. Story, acting, and rest of the all elements were great.

Cracking documentary about a horse. An a man who perhaps gets a little bit too close to this horse if you know what I mean.

It's no Ron Stampler hiding in his holographic pants while steering a bear through a Ye Bigge & Talle, but it's still a pretty good film.

Three broken men and a broken horse find each other through the four they all find redemption. That's the story.

As mentioned by a has been YouTube star claims, this movie is just Ratatouille in reverse.

When I saw this film back in 2003, I thought it was brilliant. But now, the brilliant minds of modern animation have shown me the truth.