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I’m sure many TMers were interested in aircraft when young- and probably still are. It’s fascinating to see wartime footage in the many documentaries on tv.
I wonder if anyone else gets irritated when glaringly obvious errors are made, simply showing the wrong aircraft out of context. It’s so frequent I hardly need to quote examples. (Alright, just one - in a recent programme on the Battle of Britain, French Morainine-Saulnier 406’s were used to represent spitfires.)
Do they not care, or do they think we don’t care?

It's the same with cars and the recordings of their engine notes in films. There are a couple of scenes in Bond films where both a Stag and then his Aston drive off to a Herald sound track!

The worst for me was in the BBC TV adaptation of John Le Carré's "Tinker Taylor Soldier Spy" . Peter Guillam was driving a Morgan 4/4 with the hood up and they shut the door , to the sound of a beautiful "clunk". I actually complained to the head of production (I had a contact at the BBC in those days) and got a polite reply thanking me for my observation.

Regard it as a feelgood pastime FWIW

You will never beat the cost saving ingenuity.of film and TV producers

I particularly love the American car films where the driver would seem to have an 8 speed gear box judging by the number of gear changes.

Expect some stick over that one Reg

It's gone on forever, the use of Buchon 109's and 108's in the film Battle of Britain was total rubbish but my late father who had flown Hurricanes, Mustangs and Spitfires + a proper 109 during WW2 still enjoyed the film, so I learnt from him to be tolerant (occasionally)..

Like Flop Gear and the other program it's all chewing gum in the great scheme of things.

Film production used to employ a "Continuity specialist" to pick up glaring errors like these, but in the cost conscious world we live in I suspect this is no longer the case.
Most people neither notice or care, but it really irritates me.

Yes - that - the soundtrack never matches the movement - it is like the old black and white movies with the back projection of the road when they were driving!

The job of continuity is to make sure that the details are consistent from shot to shot, it is nothing to do with accuracy.

When you go to the theatre you have to take a lot of things as representations and I am quite happy to do the same for film and television. Too many films now use CGI to produce scenes that may be totally accurate but look like a computer game. I would much rather watch a production that has been shot using real people and machinery, even if not quite the right ones.

Speaking as someone who spent over forty years working in television and feature film drama in every production I was involved in the sound recordist would record separately things such as cars driving off, door slams and toilet flushes. These are known as "wild tracks" and are recorded clean without any extraneous noise which requires total silence on the location or set, they would also record the ambient noise on the location such as water flowing or wind and be then used by the editor tracklayer and dubbing mixer. If by any chance something has been overlooked it can be recreated in a foley session or found in a sound effects library which will not only offer you say a car ticking over but give you the choice of which car.