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Earth vs. the Spider (1958)

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• Factual errors: The word "starring" is misspelled (as "starrring") in the opening credits.
  
  
• Continuity: The spider awakens and scares the kids at the band practice in the school. The drummer looks up in horror and flees his drum kit. In the following wide shot , the drummer is back to playing his drums again.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: Carol gets out of the car to look for her missing father. As she gets out of the passenger side door you can see the film crew and movie camera reflected in the car's black paint.
  
  

• Continuity: The spider was stored in the high school auditorium. When it revives and goes through the downtown area, it is as big as a two-storey building.
  
  
• Continuity: When a citizen is fleeing from town and sees the spider return to the cave it is dark. The next scene back in town seen from the Sheriffs office it is clearly still daytime.
  
  
• Factual errors: The spider expert repeatedly refers to them as insects.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: The so-called teenagers look more like post-graduate students than high schoolers. Skip Young, who was also a regular on "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet," was 28 and Tony Patterson, who played "Joe," was 35 years old.
  
  
• Factual errors: Although the spider's web plays a large role in the story, tarantulas don't spin webs.
  
  
• Continuity: When Mike and Carol are exchanging notes, Carol takes the paper and can clearly be seen to write three separate lines of text (ie: she returns to the left-hand margin and begins writing three times), yet when Mike looks at what she's written, it is shown as only two lines.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When the spider is walking down Maple Street to the Kingman's house, you can tell that the set is a miniature. The houses are all tilted to the right and there is a big shadow in the foreground, which is out of focus. In the shot of the real street seconds before, all of the houses are straight, the foreground is in focus, and there is no shadow.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: In the final scene with the spider hanging down and being electrocuted, the string holding the spider is clearly visible and jiggles when the spider falls.
  
  

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