The advent of home video has been a nightmare for movie directors and continuity people as fans can now pause and study any frame of any film, looking for bloopers. In the past, some of these apparent mistakes were actually known by the filmmakers but were allowed to remain in the film because on the big screen, few would ever notice them. For example, the late director and editor Peter Hunt once told me that when he was editing the first James Bond film, Dr. No in England, he realized that the scene in which James Bond and his chauffeur were being pursued by another car, needed more suspense. He decided he needed a closeup or two of a speedometer to indicate how fast Bond's car was going. The only problem: the car in the scene was back in Jamaica. Hunt simply shot the speedometer of his own car, even though it bore no resemblance to the dashboard seen in the film. Hunt explained that prior to home video, many bloopers were intentional and were inserted because few audience members would be able to perceive them fleetingly on the big screen. More recently, however, blooper-spotting has become a growth industry as thousands of movie fans world wide post mistakes on web sites. WCBS News has an amusing slide show focusing on bloopers in 90 films that have won or been nominated for the Best Picture Oscar. Most are of relatively recent vintage, but there are few golden oldies tossed in. - Lee Pfeiffer
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