The Adventures of Tintin

During the chase through Bagghar, Haddock loses his jacket, but has it back on later when talking to Tintin in the harbor.

When Allan finds out that Tintin has blocked the door to the cabin where he is being held, he tells Tom to get TNT.

In the following shot of Tom preparing the dynamite, he says there are other ways to open the door.

But in this shot, Allan's mouth is moving and Tom's isn't.

When Tintin returns from the library to find his 'Unicorn' missing, the sofa is back to normal position.

It was upturned before he left, when Snowy was chasing the cat.

When Tintin and the captain are trying to refuel the plane, the gas cap appears and disappears in consecutive shots.

The seaplane is marked CN-3411 and Tintin says that the plane is the Portuguese Markings, but the code CN-3411 are the Moroccan Markings.

Tintin's wallet is pulled out of his back pocket while it is clearly buttoned shut.

Tintin refers to a wall map to locate Bagghar from the clue he has found.

He finds it very quickly in Morocco although the map is plainly of fictional islands looking more like Indonesia.

At the end of the film, Tintin is letting the gold coins fall from his hand back into the globe; in the wide shot all the coins clearly fall from his hand.

In the next shot, the last of the coins fall a second time.

Allen orders his mate to bring TNT and the mate returns with dynamite.

Dynamite contains no TNT, but is actually stabilized nitroglycerin.

Upon arriving on Morocco, Bianca Castafiore states "it's my first time in the Third World".

This term was first coined in 1952, and did not refer to such countries until later years.

When Tintin shows Thompson and Thomson the newspaper Barnaby was marking with blood after being injured, there is a large, round bloodstain at the end of the newspapers name.

When they are outside saying goodbye, the only bloodstain in that area is a finger-thick stain of blood going downwards at about the middle of the page.

In the market Sakharine offers to write a cheque for the model of the Unicorn using a retractable ballpoint pen (you can even hear the click).

Ballpoints were not sold in the UK until December 1945 (and came into widespread use in the 1950s) and the retractable ballpoint pen was not invented until 1959.

The movie takes place in the early 1930s based on the dates on the newspaper cutouts showing Tintin's reporting.

The photographers shooting Bianca Castafiore use cameras like the Graflex Speed Graphic.

While it was correct that the image on the ground glass focusing screen would be upside down, that image could only be seen if the film (sheet film holder) was not in place.

In normal use, the photographer would have likely used the rangefinder and the top-mounted wire frame viewer - never looking at the ground glass focusing screen.

The photographers shooting Bianca Castafiore would have been using flash bulbs.

These were single-use devices made up of a glass bulb filled with oxygen and a magnesium filament.

While they are sometimes shown ejecting a bulb, they often manage to get multiple shots from a single bulb.

At several points during the film, characters talk about "INTERPOL".

While the organization that we now commonly know as INTERPOL first came about in 1923, well before the time of the film, it did not take the name "INTERPOL" until 1956.

Prior to that it was the International Criminal Police Organization or ICPO.

"INTERPOL" was its telegraphic address and where it got its current name from.

As the lifeboat falls Haddock loses his hat.

Next we see Tintin and Haddock rowing away.

Haddock has his hat on.

Nowhere in the fall did he capture or pick-up his hat If the film is set in the earlier 1930s then there should not have been a Citroën Traction Avant park up across the road from Tintin's flat.

This car was produced between 1934-57.

When Bianca Castafiore is about to sing, the music played is introducing an aria from Barber of Seville, by Rossini.

When she starts singing, it is an aria from a completely different opera, Roméo et Juliette, by Gounod.

When Tintin is in the Library and the man is approaching him from behind the bookshelves, he stops two shelves away.

In the next shot he is at the first shelf and able to see Tintin.

When the Pick-pocket picks the purse of Thompson or Thomson, he is wearing blue gloves in his hands.

While running away from the duo's, when he removes his coat, his gloves are missing and same when he steals Tintin's purse.

Tintin's living room has net curtains in the windows when viewed from inside, but from outside they are not there, allowing somebody to spy on the Unicorn with binoculars.

A common errorin some of the fight scenes, the bad guys are using what appear to be German-made MP 40 or possibly MP 38 machine pistols.

As their names imply, these were designed in 1940 and 1938 respectively, so would not have been invented at the time the action takes place.

When Bianca Castafiore is singing all the glass in the room shatters, even some spectacles, yet still Sakharine's spectacles do not.