Goofs for
Planet of the Apes (1968)

• Continuity: At the beginning of the film, when Taylor and his crew are trekking out of the forbidden zone, Taylor's backpack disappears and reappears between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: The stump Dr. Zaius is tied to changes shape twice.
  
  
• Continuity: Several of the outside shots of the spacecraft show the outer hatch removed long before Taylor orders it to be blown.
  
  

• Crew or equipment visible: The shadow of the camera is visible on the wall as Taylor goes down the spiral stairs in the "human museum".
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: "Stuffed" humans in the ape history museum, including Taylor's companion Dodge, can clearly be seen to move as Taylor walks past them.
  
  
• Continuity: The strap on Taylor's rifle while pointing it at Dr. Zaius while outside the cave in the forbidden zone.
  
  
• Anachronisms: As we arrive at the water's edge during the opening sequence, there are white boats docked at the shore.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: While being hunted, many humans dive prematurely either before they get to the net or even before the net goes up.
  
  
• Continuity: Nova completely erases the letters Taylor has scratched in the dirt for Zira to see, but just a few second later when Zaius is looking down you see some of the letters have reappeared.
  
  
• Continuity: Taylor's hands switch from hanging down to holding the net around his neck and back between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: When we first see female crewman Stewart, her arms are bent with her hands across her chest. When the angle changes to the view from the inside of the still-unopened chamber as the water starts to burst in, the arms are now seen extended straight down at her sides.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: After Landon sets up his tiny American flag, Taylor lets out a howling laugh, but in the shot his teeth are clenched.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the original (later edited out by the studios after the first release) when Taylor falls by the Statue of Liberty an Ocean Liner can be clearly seen on the horizon
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: During the horseback ride into the forbidden zone, you can see tracks in the sand where a horse has been ridden though several times already.
  
  

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