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Bela Lugosi and Maria Alba in The Return of Chandu (1934)

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The Return of Chandu

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Continuity

In Chapter 3, when Chandu does a magic spell on the sleeping princess, he places his hand on her head. The camera cuts to her close up: his hand isn't on her head. The next frame shows the long shot: he still has his hand upon her head.
At the end of Chapter 3, Nadjia wakes up twice: she wakes up, goes to the window. The camera cuts to the boat that's outside the window, then it cuts to Nadjia waking up again, and the same footage of her going to the window and seeing the boat outside is replayed. The next frame she is carried out unconscious, without showing her fainting.
Chandu and family's boat had capsized in the middle of the night. When Chandu goes looking for water with his nephew, in the middle of the night, the sun is suddenly brightly shining.
CH 8: Chandu's hair goes from disheveled when he pulls up the Hindu guy from the pit to perfectly brilliantined in the next frame when he heads towards the tiger's pit.
When Chandu and Bob are driving there is dialog but their mouths are not moving.

Factual errors

In CHapter: 7: Foreward, "seize" is spelled "sieze".

Revealing mistakes

The footage from Ch 8 of the native jumping on the White guy prisoner and attacking him is repeated at the beginning of CH 9---but after the recap footage---only the camera cuts right when he's about to grab him by his belt.
In Chapter: 6, footage of the natives opening the huge King-Kong-like door and the evil priest descending the stairs, followed by the women in white robes, is used again in Chapter: 12.

Miscellaneous

In Chapter: 7, Frank tells his friends they will be safe from the natives as long as they keep the fire going. The natives are afraid of fire. But later in the serial it shows the natives have a bonfire in their camp.

Character error

CH 7: Four actors in the ocean, carrying an unconscious Chandu, carelessly allowed Bela Lugosi's head to be submerged by a wave, hitting him smack in the face, nose first---meaning a lot of salty sea water clearly entered his nostrils. Bela was then forced to quickly react, and---while keeping his eyes closed---briefly opened his mouth to breathe, even though Chandu is supposed to be unconscious, as corroborated by the next actor's line "Is he alive?"

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