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If you like "Behind the Scenes" stuff about your favorite films, you'll enjoy reading about the mistakes that made it not only through filming, but editing. Not just boom mikes in the shot, but continuity errors and little things like someone wearing a digital watch on the Titanic. Fun stuff.
From This is True for 26 October 2003
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