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Gone with the Wind DVD Cover Download “Gone with the Wind” 1939	Actors: Thomas Mitchell Clark Gable Rhett Butler Vivien Leigh Scarlett O’Hara Leslie Howard Ashley Wilkes Olivia de Havilland Melanie Hamilton Gerald O’Hara
	Directors: Victor Fleming
	IMDB Rating: 8.2/10 out of 73,446 votes

“Gone with the Wind” 1939 by Victor Fleming – Movie Goofs

“Gone with the Wind” Plot Summary

American classic in which a manipulative woman and a roguish man carry on a turbulent love affair in the American south during the Civil War and Reconstruction.

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“Gone with the Wind” Goofs List

• Continuity: When Scarlett meets Frank Kennedy in the hospital, a water pitcher appears out of nowhere.
• Factual errors: Gerald O’Hara comes running into Tara shouting that the war is over because Lee surrendered. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virgina on April 9, 1865, which had no effect on Georgia. In fact, Georgia State Troops didn’t surrender until almost a month after Lee. The surrender of Gen. Kirby Smith at Galveston, Texas, on May 26 is considered the end of the Civil War.
• Continuity: When Ashley is leaving to return to the front from his furlough, Scarlett meets him at the bottom of the stairs with his coat, which then disappears.
• Crew or equipment visible: As Scarlett exits the makeshift hospital in the church, the shadow of the camera can be seen on the door to the left as the view pulls back.
• Revealing mistakes: When the horses and wagons are going up the drive at Twelve Oaks, they dissolve into the matte shot.
• Revealing mistakes: When Scarlett and Melanie are nursing the wounded soldier, their shadows don’t fit their movements.
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: During the barbecue at the Wilkes’ where she wears a green dress we have not previously seen, Scarlett says to the Tarleton twins, “but I wore this old thing because I thought you liked it.” While this could be taken as a reference to an earlier scene (which it was in the novel), she could just as well be referring to a time before the movie started. (In the original script she was seen earlier in the green dress, but the dress was changed to white without changing the line in this scene).
• Revealing mistakes: An obvious stunt player drives the buggy through the burning Atlanta Depot.
• Continuity: When Scarlett flees Atlanta, she is bareheaded. As she and Rhett ride through the depot, she is wearing a black bonnet. In the next scene on the road to Tara, the bonnet disappears.
• Continuity: Scarlett’s hairnet when she kills the Yankee intruder.
• Anachronisms: After Ashley Wilkes is carried into his room, Melanie picks up a lamp with an electric cord attached.
• Anachronisms: When trying to get Dc. Meade, Scarlett runs past a lamp post containing an electric bulb.
• Continuity: Scarlett’s collar brooch when in mourning for Bonnie.
• Continuity: As Rhett and Scarlett flee Atlanta, he stops their wagon to comment on the fall of the old South. Interspersed with his comments are scenes of wounded soldiers walking on the road. A bearded man smoking a pipe is shown carrying a fallen comrade. Several scenes later, the same man is shown carrying a rifle. He gives his rifle to another soldier and picks up the soldier he was seen carrying in the previous scene.
• Anachronisms: After Scarlett kills the Yankee soldier, Melanie removes her nightgown, intending to use it to clean up the blood. She is supposed to be nude. In the newly remastered version, Melanie is clearly wearing a bra, which didn’t exist until early 1900s.
• Revealing mistakes: In the bazaar scene where Dr. Meade auctions dances with women, it’s obvious by his shadow that he’s standing in front of a screen.
• Continuity: Just before Dr. Meade introduces the just arriving Rhett Butler at the bazaar, Scarlett and Rhett are visible walking away from the platform where Dr. Meade is standing.
• Revealing mistakes: In the railyard where the soldiers are laid out, two men carry a rolled up stretcher across the top of the frame and then turn left to proceed down the left side. The man in the rear steps on the leg of a soldier and leaves a footprint/depression in a dummy’s leg.
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: While Mammy and Scarlett are arguing about turning the fancy drapes into the green dress, Mammy says “Who’s that, a Yankee?” Her face is visible in the mirror, but her mouth never moves.
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Scarlett’s sisters are picking cotton at Tara and complaining, Scarlett walks into the picture. You hear her voice say, “Too bad about that!”, but her lips do not move.
• Continuity: Scarlett is seated upon a pillow while talking to the Tarleton twins on the porch steps. When she hurries off to meet her father the pillow is gone.
• Continuity: When the war is over, everyone at Tara runs to the front hall. We see Melanie run down with empty arms. In the next shot she is holding her baby.
• Continuity: When Rhett kisses Scarlett goodbye right before he enlists, he drops his hat on the ground. He kisses her and picks it up from atop a fence post.
• Continuity: When Scarlett is talking to Rhett, her handkerchief disappears between shots. Rhett soon gives her a new one.
• Continuity: When Rhett and Mammy share a drink after Bonnie’s birth, Rhett has his cigar in his mouth as he stands by the fireplace (he even has some trouble talking with it between his teeth). A second later he is suddenly holding his cigar in his left hand.
• Continuity: After Rhett and Scarlett flee Atlanta, he stops the wagon at the crossroad to Tara. When he does, he sets the brake on the wagon. After he leaves Scarlett, she turns to the horse and starts to lead it down the road to Tara – without releasing the brake.
• Continuity: When Scarlett arrives at Tara after her mother has died, the door to the room where the mother is laid out is open. When Scarlett turns to go in, the door is closed.
• Continuity: When Scarlett is attacked on the bridge, her hat disappears and reappears between shots.
• Continuity: When Scarlett is getting ready for the barbecue at Twelve Oaks, she and Mammy put the green dress over her head and it is untied in the back. The next time we see the back of the dress, it is tied.
• Revealing mistakes: As Scarlett and Rhett are fleeing Sherman’s troops, their horse becomes frightened and refuses to move amidst the flaming wreckage. Rhett ties a cloth around the horse’s face so it can’t see the flames. As soon as he starts leading the horse through the debris, the cloth falls away from the horse, which seems to be no longer afraid of the flames.
• Continuity: When Big Sam is supposed to be driving Scarlett away from her attackers at Shantytown, the aerial shot shows he is not in the cart.
• Continuity: After he rides, Mr. O’Hara walks toward Scarlett holding the stick in the right hand. In the next shot the stick appears in his left hand.
• Revealing mistakes: When Scarlett climbs down the stairs before Rhett, who carries Melanie, she holds a lamp to the wall side. Although the only light then supposedly came from the lamp, their shadows are projected on the wall.
• Revealing mistakes: When Ashley comes to Atlanta for Christmas during the war, he and Melanie go upstairs to bed and call over the banister of the staircase landing to Scarlett. They proceed on to their room, and we see the light from their room reflected on the wall at the staircase landing. The light disappears as their bedroom door closes, leaving Scarlett watching in misery. However, when we see Prissy and Scarlett packing to leave Atlanta because Sherman is coming (while Melanie is in labor) it appears that there is no bedroom in a position that could leave a light on the landing wall.
• Continuity: When Scarlett approaches the Twelve Oaks stairs after her conversation with Ashley, Melanie, and Charles, she greets Frank. For a split second, Rhett Butler is in the background. In the next shot, Rhett is no longer there.
• Continuity: After the Tarleton Twins tell Scarlett of Ashley’s impending marriage to Melanie on the porch of Tara, during the famous scene where Scarlett runs down the driveway, the Tarleton Twins disappear from the porch in the long shot.
• Continuity: When Rhett comes to visit Scarlett at Aunt Pittypat’s with the green bonnet, there is a desk between two windows with busts on top. The busts disappear, then reappear.
• Revealing mistakes: When Rhett enters the room where Bonnie is playing and tells her about taking her away to London, Bonnie’s lips move in sync with Rhett’s dialog as he talks to her.
• Continuity: Before Scarlett goes to the Twelve Oaks barbecue, she has a bare neck, talking to Mammy, then she ties on a hat. Later she is seen wearing a pink necklace.
• Crew or equipment visible: After Rhett angers the men about how he doubts the South can win the war, Ashley goes after him. As Ashley is leaving the room, for a brief moment, the shadow of a shorter person can be seen behind him.
• Crew or equipment visible: When Scarlett and Rhett meet for the first time in the library, there is a globe (or some type of round object) between them. Camera lights are visibl

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