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How did people got word of police brutality in the 1950s? (nord.pub)

submitted 6 hours ago by NightOps@nord.pub to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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There is no internet (let alone social media or body cams) during that era, since Jim Crow in America was still being enforced towards black people at that time, but the civil rights movement is gaining traction (since Martin Luther King was alive). I mean, cop violence has been around for a long time before body cams were invented. How did people hear first hand encounters from those victimized back then without reliance on social media?

What are examples of anachronisms you've seen from movies depicting historical settings? by NightOps in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

[-] NightOps@nord.pub 9 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

There's another anachronism from that movie around 34 minutes in (during the scene where the nurses are on a transport ship heading for the hospital) as the movie is meant to be portray 1941: you can literally see the USS Arizona memorial in the background as pictured and circled below:

It's a nitpicky detail that made it on the final cut, since that wasn't built until 1962 (way after the war!).

What are examples of anachronisms you've seen from movies depicting historical settings? by NightOps in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

[-] NightOps@nord.pub 21 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

That reminds me of a war movie I've watched, when Josh Hartnett's character said "I think WWII has just started" during the attack on Pearl Harbor. (That line is historically inaccurate).

In reality, people would just consider it the "war" (referring to the European theater) or "Jap invasion of America" marking the US entry into the conflict (the term WWII was not coined yet until after).

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What are examples of anachronisms you've seen from movies depicting historical settings? (nord.pub)

submitted 9 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) by NightOps@nord.pub to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

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I remember watching The Hurt Locker (starring Jeremy Renner), the movie is meant to depict the Iraq War in 2004 but for some reason there's a scene where an iPod Touch (releases in 2007), XBOX 360 (releases in 2005) and Gears of War (releases in 2006) present in the barracks even though these did not exist yet. Another anachronism from this movie is when a American soldier spots an Iraqi recording him ready on uploading the footage via YouTube (the website didn't exist yet until 2005 when the story is set in 2004).