The Notebook

During the scene where the family are playing music and dancing outside the front of the house, Allie appears to be sitting on the porch playing a Jew's Harp, when the camera changes angles it vanishes.

In the scene with Noah and Allie in the Windsor Plantation, after Noah explains about the significance of the stairs, we can hear Allie say, "This place is gigantic," but her mouth doesn't move until a few seconds after it was said.

When the band is playing on Noah's front porch and his father is playing the spoons with the band, as his father gets up to dance with Allie, he lays them down, but the sound of the spoons playing can still be heard in the music.

During the first love scene at the plantation house when Noah begins to get up, if you look quickly, you can see that he is actually wearing boxers.

When Allie and Noah are in the boat (just before it starts to rain), Allie's fringe/bangs are curled up tightly.

A few moments later (when it begins to rain), Allie's fringe/bangs are perfectly straight.

This could not have happened so quickly.

The sign on the window of the stationery store in the town early in the movie is misspelled.

When Duke is having an exam by the doctor two chest x-rays are on the light box behind him.

The films are both reversed left to right but in a later shot they are correct - right to left.

In the scene showing Allie and Noah walking after the movie, parking meters are clearly visible.

Parking meters in South Carolina were introduced in 1947.

In the shot where Noah and Allie are eating lunch after he's read to her some, he is wearing his reading glasses.

In the next shot he is wearing his bifocals.

The position of Allie's left earring changes from two pearls on top and on the bottom to one on the top and two on the bottom.

During the scene when Noah and Allie are in the middle of the road, Noah states that he and his dad used to watch the light change "from green to red to yellow" when street lights go from green to yellow to red.

When Noah goes to mail his final letter to Allie, we can see sunlight shining through the envelope right before he puts it in the mailbox and there is obviously no letter in it.

When the older Allie and Noah are having the candlelit dinner for two, Allie is wearing a plaid shawl over her red jacket as she begins to sit down.

In the next shot of her seated, the shawl is off, with no time for her to have removed it.

In the next shot, it's back on again.

When Allie and her mum are outside Noah's newly restored house, crew and equipment are reflected in the side mirror of her car.

When Noah and Allie are talking in front of Allie's house (the last time they met before she goes to NY), she's wearing a necklace in some shots and not wearing it in others.

When Allie and her mother are talking in front of Noah's house, their shadow goes from right to left in all shots except when her mother gets up, in which the shadow goes the opposite way.

When Allie's mum brings Allie to see her ex love, Allie's mum's ring starts upside down then turns right side up again in the next shot.

When Noah and Allie are sitting on his front porch talking, Noah stands up angrily and throws the chair he was sitting in down, with the flowers falling on the ground.

In the next shot, the chair is back up and the flowers are on the arm of the chair.

When Allie goes to Noah's newly finished house to "see if he's okay", Noah is holding a beer bottle in his left hand.

When he walks up to the car after she drives through the fence, he is no longer holding a bottle; his left hand is in his belt loop.

When Allie is driving to see Noah, there is a plastic lace wrapped steering wheel cover visible.

These did not exist in the 1940s.

When Allie talks to her mother on the porch, the way the red blanket is wrapped around her changes a few times.

When Lon gets out of the hospital waiting for Allie by the car to ask her about his date, his hair is clearly brown.

In all subsequent shots his hair is black.

In most of the movie Noah has brown eyes (contacts because 'Ryan Gosling' (qv)'s eyes are blue in real life) but after the scene where Allie and Noah fight after her mother brings her back home from the drive and Noah is trying to stop Allie from leaving by standing in front of her car his eyes are blue, you see that his eyes are shining blue in the sunlight.

In many of the scenes that take place in June and July, the grass is brown.

It should be green during the summer in South Carolina.

In the scene in which they are lying in the street, their position moves from dead center of the road (they are in line with the center line) to being over in the right-hand lane when the shot moves from tight to wide.

When Noah and Martha are leaving the house after dinner, Martha says "thank for dinner" and Allie replies and is clearly seen washing dishes through the window, but her mouth is not moving.

When Allie and Noah are breaking up and are having the fight outside, Noah closes the truck door, but in the next shot when Allie pushes him up against the truck, it is open.

When Noah jumps into the ferris wheel seat that Allie and a boy are sitting in, we hear Allie's voice yell, "Get off me!", but Allie's lips do not move to say the words.

While the words are said, Allie's mouth is simply open, as she is gasping.

Some of the carnival rides seen at the carnival are clearly modern rides not available in the 1940s.

When Noah meets Allie for the second time a sign in the window say "Peaches 3 for $1.

00" Those are modern prices.

The beach scenes are shot on a rocky beach, however South Carolina does not have a rocky coast.

Vintage scene with modern woodduring the riverside rope swing scene (circa 1940) there is a momentary glimpse in the foreground of a "telephone pole" style dock piling.

Such pilings existed then, but the wood's all-around light green coloration is distinctive of modern "treated" wood soaked in chromated copper arsenate (CCA).

A 30's pole should have been brown or weathered-gray (or, if creosote-soaked, black).

CCA-treated wood didn't become commercially available until at least 40 years after when the scene was meant to be.

In the mid-late 2000's some municipalities began banning the green toxic wood preservative.

On the movie marquee (which is very 50s for a 1940 S.

neighborhood theater) announcing the picture _Li'l Abner (1940)_ (qv) one of the stars is identified as 'Jeff York (I)' (qv) though he appeared in the film using his original stage name of Granville Owen.

He wasn't credited as Jeff York until after WW2 in _They Were Expendable (1945)_ (qv).

When Allie and Noah were making out at Noah's newly built house, Noah already dropped his pants on the stairs but when they entered the room, he still had it on his feet and dropped it near the door.

In one scene when Allie is talking to Noah, her arm below the sleeve seems to be see through, then after that scene her arm comes back.

When Allie is trying on her wedding dress, a lock of her hair on the left side of her face falls down and then returns to its place between angles.

When Allie says "this is 'the' room?" and turns to look at the piano during reunion dinner at Noah's house she is holding a fork and in the next scene she has no fork.

When Allie arrives at the hotel and mop her face because she cried, you can see that she has French manicure at her nails.

That wasn't at all common in 1940.

While Noah and Allie are out in the boat and it begins to storm, Allie's eye make-up is smudged and running down her cheeks.

As they run into the house, and both during and after their love scene, her make-up is fine.

Also, both Noah and Allie have soaking wet hair when they enter the house, but by the time they are undressed a minute or two later, their hair appears to be dry.

_Li'l Abner (1940)_ (qv) was not in theaters during the summer of 1940.

RKO did not release the picture until 1 November of that year.

After Noah and Allie get in the fight by her car at the end, he has his hands on his heart then walks towards the back of the car turns around and puts his hands on his head.

About two seconds later she pulls away and he is in front of her car with his hands on his head.

In scenes set in June-July 1940, cold breath is visible and grass is brown rather than green, indicating that the scenes were filmed in winter.

Allie Hamilton in her youth has a black mole on her left cheek, but the older Allie Calhoun doesn't have it.

Moles can fall off or be removed.

When Noah is hanging on the ferris wheel you can see his microphone clipped to his shirt in middle of his back.

After their unofficial double date with Fin and Sarah when Noah and Allie are about to walk home, the same blue car passes them going the same direction within a 10 second interval.

When Noah takes Allie to the plantation for the first time she is instructed to stay outside.

When she looks at the river into the moonlight her silhouette reveals flowing curls, and when she turns around her hair is slightly curled at the ends, but not nearly as much as 2 seconds earlier.

When returning to Allie's summer home, Allie and Noah walk through the front door which is clearly solid wood.

Upon entering the home, the door now has decorative glass.

Noah and Allie watch the film "Lil' Abner" in the summer of 1940.

This film was not released until November of that year.

Noah and Allie's signature song, Billie Holiday's rendition of "I'll Be Seeing You", was not recorded until 1944.

Four years after their summer romance.

The movie Noah, Allie and their friends watch is in wide-screen format.

Movies in the 1940s used the Academy format and wide-screen was not introduced until the 1950s.

When Lon proposes to Ali, we see that he has not slid the ring on her finger.

It is just resting at the tip of her finger.

But when he jumps up a second later to run up to the bandstand, the ring is completely on her finger with not enough time passing for Lon to do so.

When Noah carries Allie up the stairs, his pants are off and then at the top they are back on his ankles.

When Allie's mother takes her to the site to show her the man that she once loved her French-tipped manicured nails are glaringly visible.

They were not in vogue in the 1940's.

When Aly and Lon are going out on a date and getting out from a car, a theatre is visible across the street with "On The Town" on the marquee.

On The Town didn't come out until 1949, a couple years after Noah and Aly meet again.

When Allie and Noah were lying in the street, they were in the center.

A moment later, without getting up, they were in the right- hand lane.

Then, again without getting to their feet, in the next shot, they were back in the center of the street.

When Allie walks into Noah's barn and admires his carpentry, the right side of her blue scarf changes from behind her back to her front to her back again in continuous shots without the film ever showing her physically moving it herself.

Noah says the ducks are supposed to migrate to Guatemala Sound.

The ducks in the film are of a domesticated breed and wouldn't migrate.

I was crying for one hour after the movie ended. Touched me.

I was waiting until I had read the book to watch this film. I have heard nothing but good comments on this movie and after I watched it I was disappointed, although it is a good film it is too highly overrated.

A movie about love and senile dementia. Love is the most precious thing in the world.

I've heard of this film for a long time, but I haven't seen it. Also in the afternoon, I found this movie from the website to watch.

"As teenagers, Allie (Rachel McAdams) and Noah (Ryan Gosling) begin a whirlwind courtship that soon blossoms into tender intimacy. The young couple is quickly separated by Allie's upper-class parents who insist that Noah isn't right for her.

I am sorry, but this is another movie that I thought the actors used for the main characters were inappropriate they did not bring across the feeling they grew up in the south in the 50s. If one grew up in the south in the 1950s there would be a certain speech, and dignity that I felt not one of the main characters brought across.

As I'm a romantic person, I have seen a lot of romantic dramas and The Notebook has a very special resonance within me.There are so many romantic movies in the market which feel redundant and not particularly bringing memorable souvenirs.

After seeing Lalaland (Netflix), I remembered Ryan Gosling from The Notebook and watched the film again. That revisit was not only a pleasure.