Anachronism Definition & Movie/TV Examples
Chapter 1

Ancient empires on the silver screen

Chapter 2

Medieval and Renaissance mix-ups

Chapter 3

The wild West and Victorian eras

Chapter 4

Modern history and the retro rewind

Ch 4 · Modern history and the retro rewind
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schopenhauer The historical timeline of Queen songs in the movie Bohemian Rhapsody

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schopenhauer Back to the Future Guitar

He's playing that fifty-eight Gibson! (that Gibson!) / Back in fifty-five, yeah-yeah! (fifty-five!)

Sep 25

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schopenhauer The futuristic Star Wars toy in Stranger Things

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Bohemian Rhapsody and the early song release

schopenhauer The Queen biopic features the band performing a hit song years before they actually wrote it.

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Fun Fact

Titanic's fake lake: Jack Dawson mentions ice fishing on Lake Wissota, which wasn't created until five years after the ship sank.

Sep 25

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Indiana Jones and the shifting borders

schopenhauer Indiana Jones films often feature travel maps showing countries that did not exist during the movies' eras.

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Glossary
anachronism (noun)
A chronological inconsistency in which a person, object, or event is placed in the wrong time period. The television series Stranger Things, set in 1983, features a Volkswagen Cabrio model not manufactured until 1988.

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Quiz

What year's model of the Millennium Falcon toy was accidentally used in Stranger Things, which was set in 1983?

Sep 25

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Gossip

Which movie map error is most annoying?

Sep 25

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History's Retro Rewind
BETA

schopenhauer Spot the modern mistakes in historical movies to discover when famous inventions were actually made.

Sep 25

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schopenhauer Jack Dawson's historical mistake about Lake Wissota in the movie Titanic

Sep 25

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Quiz

Which man-made Wisconsin lake does Jack Dawson mention in Titanic, despite it not existing until 1917?

Sep 25

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schopenhauer Historical map errors in Raiders of the Lost Ark

Sep 25

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Quiz

Which Queen song is performed in Bohemian Rhapsody during a 1974 scene, four years before its actual 1978 release?

Sep 25

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Quiz

In the movie Apollo 13, set in 1970, what famous product's logo on a cassette tape is from the mid-1980s?

Sep 25

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Quiz

In the 1994 film Forrest Gump, Forrest receives a letter from Apple Computer with a logo from which decade?

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Quiz

The 2007 film Zodiac, set in 1969, features a scene with a song by which artist that wasn't released until 1971?

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Quiz

Which country name appears on the travel map in Raiders of the Lost Ark (set in 1936) before its 1939 name change?

Sep 25

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Quiz

The movie Catch Me If You Can, set in the 1960s, features a FedEx shipping box that didn't exist until what year?

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