Pifias

In close-up, Indy's head is about to go under the crusher. But after he picks up the saw, in the wide shot, his head is well away from the crusher.

When Willie is to be sacrificed in the lava pit and the fight breaks out at the top, the distances she is alternately lowered and raised are entirely at odds with the turning of the wheel.

The wooden log stuck on the front of the thuggees mine cart disappears in some shots.

In the fight between Indiana and the two swordfighters, Indiana whips one of the fighters' swords down the mountain. In the next cut he picks up the same sword.

As Short Round, Indy and Willie walk through the Customs entrance to board the plane, Lao Che and his men are shown pulling up in the black car right behind them but in the next wide shot, the car isn't anywhere to be seen.

After the pilots bail out and Indy comes in to fly the plane, a closeup is shown of the altimeter falling. It starts at 5000 feet. But that altitude is way too low given the view of the snow covered mountains out the front window.

The Ford Trimotor of 1935 had no automatic pilot and had to be hand-flown (someone steering the plane) at all times. When the Chinese pilots left the control wheels in the cockpit, the plane was at the mercy of aerodynamics and the elements. Flying over mountains where there would be updrafts and downdrafts would have immediately upset what little equilibrium the plane would have had and immediately put it into and bank and/or dive instead of flying straight and level as it did in the movie.

Nurhaci was not the first Emperor of the Manchu Dynasty he was the first Emperor of the Jin Dynasty. The first Emperor of the Manchu also called the Qing Dynasty was Hong Taiji.

Madagascar was once part of a Sultanate but that was too long ago for Indiana Jones to have met the Sultan.

When Indy cuts the rope bridge, all those who manage to hold on to the bridge apparently survive the bridge collapse unscathed. In reality, smashing into the canyon wall while holding onto the bridge would have been nearly as bad as falling onto hard ground from a comparable height.

During the infamous meal scene the guests are served live eels to consume. In reality, eating raw eels could be fatal to a human as their blood is highly poisonous; that's why eels are always served cooked.

They are not eating eels, they are eating baby snakes - the production simply used eels to "portray" the baby snakes.

Indy points to some bats and says that they're vampire bats. Although true vampire bats are indigenous to South America and are entirely nocturnal, the bats he is pointing at are Large Flying Foxes, binomially called Pteropus Vampyrus. So given their size it is not unthinkable to refer to them as "Giant Vampire Bats" Also he was trying to frighten Willie.

Indy tells Willie that he "caught" Shorty when he was four years old after "the Japanese bombed Shanghai", killing Shorty's entire family. The movie plays in 1935, but the second Sino-Japanese War only started in 1937.

There was also a bombing in 1932, so it makes sense.

When Indy, Shorty and Willie leave the village by elephant, Shorty sits on a small elephant. Then Shorty sits in front of Indy on his elephant, before being back on his own small elephant. This is not a continuity goof because ample time passes for Short Round to dismount and mount one of the other elephants for whatever reason he chooses, say needing to talk to Indiana Jones.

During the car chase, one of Lao Che's goons is shot in the head and then he screams.

Being shot in the head does not always mean you die instantly, you can be shot in the head and scream.

During the opening dance scene, a shot has clearly been reversed to give the illusion that the dancers are rising up effortlessly from a split on the stage floor.

When Short Round first sets off the mechanism that results in him and Indy been trapped in the room with the descending spiked ceiling, the sounds of the mechanism are obviously those of pneumatically driven equipment.

At the end, when the elephant unexpectedly sprays water on Indy and Willie as they are about to kiss, you can clearly see Harrison Ford start blinking beforehand in anticipation of the spray, obviously expecting it.

When the spears are thrown at Indiana in the club, the wires they are connected to are visible.

In the mine, a guard jumps and hits the ground and you can see his rubber sword bend backwards.

At the banquet, each guest has a large round bolster behind them. However, when Willie faints at the sight of the chilled monkey brains dessert, she falls all the way back to the floor, and there is no sign of her bolster.

No one that is burned by a torch to "wake" them from the sleep ever has a burn mark on them, nor is their clothing singed.

The Chinese pilots dump all the plane's fuel, yet the plane crashes with a huge fireball.

The Indian elder states when the sacred stone was stolen from the village, "the wells dried up and the river turned to dust". However, Indy and the others landed in a fast-moving river which eventually calmed to a slow stream, which is where the elder found them, evidently within walking distance to his village.

Short Round says the cave floor feels like "fortune cookies". Prior to WWII, fortune cookies were called fortune tea cakes, and largely only served in America, where he has never been to.

When Willie and Short Round are hanging from the bridge and they start climbing up, a small, modern, private plane can be briefly seen flying to the right.

In the overview shot in the mine, just before Short Round and Indy end up in a metal cage and learn about Kali's blood, one of the men sending sparks in the air in the middle of the screen is sporting a very obvious blue metal disc cutter.

When the British Indian Army riflemen arrive and fire on the Thuggees, they are firing Lee-Enfield No. 4 MkI rifles although the film is set in 1935. The No. 4 Mk I was first issued to British troops in 1939 but was not adopted officially until 1941.

In the mine, when Shorty uses the ladder as a pole vault, he holds the bag with his mouth yet we hear him scream.

When the escaping Indian boy is leaning against a boulder to rest, the sounds of his breathing do not match the actual rise and fall of his chest.

As the trio is about to jump out of the plane, Shorty says "Lady, I can't breathe," but his mouth doesn't move.

When Indy and Shorty exit the village elder's hut, Shorty asks if they made the plane crash to get him there. Indy replies "No Shorty, it's just a ghost story, don't worry about it," but his lip movement does not match the speech.

When Indiana Jones and Short Round were caught in the room with the ceiling coming down at Pankot Palace, Indy can be heard to say "This is serious" twice, although it does not match his mouth movements.

While fighting on the hanging bridge, Indy's safety cord is clearly visible.

During the final shot of the rickshaw crashing, a third wheel in the rear of the rickshaw is visible, which allowed it to be ridden with its "nose up" for the scene.

Lao barks at Willie to "Sit Down!" after she complains about the two holes Indy has made in her dress. In the wide shot of Willie sliding onto her seat, you can see a crew member's head lift very briefly to the right of her chair, as he is obviously helping Kate Capshaw shift the chair across the floor as she sits.

Right after Willie spits on Indy, Short Round runs away from his captors. The camera follows Short Round's back. When Short Round turns his head to look in the camera's direction, a crew member in a blue shirt can be seen standing next to a stage light on the right side of the screen.

Stunt pads are visible on Willie's knees when she jumps out of the Shanghai club's window.

Florida alligators in India.

In the Indian village, everyone speaks Sinhala, the Sri Lankan language.

In the beginning Lao Che's freight plane is seen flying over the Great Wall of China. Then there is a map with a straight line from Shanghai to Chungking. The wall is no where near that but further north and west of Shanghai closer to Mongolia.

At 14:40, the plane flies above the Great Wall of China. This is impossible (the Great Wall is nowhere near the route from Shanghai to Chongqing to Delhi.)

Although they might be consumed in some parts of Southeast Asia, snakes, insects, and monkey brains would never be served in India (and especially not in the palace of a Hindu king or "maharaja") due to very strict Hindu and Islamic dietary codes. In fact, a significant portion of Indians (mostly Hindus) are strict vegetarians due to those religious dietary restrictions.

Nothing actually comes out of Willie's mouth when she spits in Indy's face. Indy then proceeds to wipe away non-existent saliva.