Wrong Stamps In A Movie

(not sure where to place this topic!)

Wow! I have to share this story!

I'm a French high school teacher. Today, in class, we were viewing the 2016 movie "La chasse-galerie", a classic French Canadian legend.



December 1888. One of the main characters discovers a stash of stolen letters that were destined for him. As he flicked through the stash, I jumped on the spacebar to pause the movie and told my students "THESE ARE NOT THE RIGHT STAMPS!!!"



George VI yellow, blue and green Canadian ~1937 stamps were affixed on every letter (in three different scenes!) (Sc#231, 234, 235) That's 50 years ahead of its time !

George was born in Dec. 1895, 7 years AFTER the letters from the movie were written ! It should have been Queen Victoria on these stamps!

My students were shaking their heads. They know how much I care about stamps ! "Only you Madame would notice such a detail !"

(I also do understand that everything from that letter in the picture is wrong, such as the printed address and the cancel!)

It still bothers me!!

Alie, good catch! Aren't the inconsistencies in movies that bother us really, weird idiosyncratic things? Like I can suspend belief about plenty of things, magic, space lasers, etc., but if one small thing is wrong it can almost ruin the entire movie for me.

--Eric

Funny. Is the addressee correct? Did they mock up an envelope with the right character name and completely blow everything else? Or is this just a random stack of envelopes?

The kids might laugh or roll their eyes, but that's street cred right there.

Thanks for recognizing the street cred! I'm flattered and taking this as a compliment!! I'm showing this thread to my students tomorrow!!

(I actually told them that I would vent my disappointment with the "choice" of stamps in the movie in this Forum!!)

You might want to make another post or two...enough said.