History Main / StockFootageFailure

* In the last episode of ''Anime/DigimonFrontier'', when [[spoiler:the [=DigiDestened=] fuse together into Susanoomon]], the evolution footage shows Takuya and Koji's first Digivices rather than their current ones.

* While ''Anime/SailorMoon'' was usually very good with the stock footage for the transformations, attacks and pre-battle speeches, there were a couple background errors with the Inner Senshi's "Star Power" sequences in the ''R'' season. The first happened in the very first sequence; although the colorful whooshing background shouldn't fade in until after [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0I6Kv0yHW0 Sailor Mercury's]] nails are colored, the sequence didn't start with a black background the first time. There was also a group transformation a few episodes later where Sailor Mars was given the wrong background for part of her transformation. Ordinarily it would look [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHu5gqaJewY something like this]], but [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8TSxfEbDv8 she got Venus's background for the first part]].
* ''Anime/SailorMoonCrystal'' has a sequence where Sailor Moon shouts out one attack but the footage uses another.

* In the last episode of ''Anime/DigimonFrontier'', when [[spoiler:the Chosen Children fuse together into Susanoomon]], the evolution footage shows Takuya and Koji's first Digivices rather than their current ones.

* The 2013 horror film ''Friend Request''[[note]]not to be confused with the 2016 film of the same name, released as ''Unfriend'' in its native Germany[[/note]] includes an establishing shot of a police car driving past a police station, represented by Shutterstock footage. We know this because there's a giant Shutterstock watermark over most of the frame, suggesting the filmmakers were too cheap to buy the stock footage in question.

** "Pallet Party Panic" features a really funny example of this, when Ash is stuck in a true with a bunch of scared Pidgey. Deciding to release his Pidgeotto to protect them, the same clip of Ash throwing his Poké Ball is used, right after he is clearly shown to be hanging onto a branch, and therefore physically unable to move like that.

* An [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3hshaoIfvY early promo]] for ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' has Kevin call the Eds "Dorks", before cutting to the shocked reaction of the kids, ''including Kevin himself''.

* ''Manga/AkazukinChacha'' has stock footage of the PowerTrio using their artifacts to transform Chacha into "Magical Princess." Normally these are fine, but they use the same stock footage even when Shiine and Riiya are chained to a wall and shouldn't be able to move.

* ''Film/BlackDynamite'' does this for StylisticSuck, featuring a car chase that is almost entirely StockFootage. The environments are inconsistent with what we see through the car windows, and when the bad guy's car goes over a cliff (said wilderness cliff being right next to a major inner-city highway) and explodes, it turns into an entirely different car.

** It's been suggested that that particular shot was ''not'' an example of stock footage failure. Apparently, this may have been a reproduction of the giant billboards for 1960 Swedish documentary "Mein Kampf" about Hitler which were scattered through downtown Tokyo.

* In ''Film/GokaigerGoseigerSuperSentai199HeroGreatBattle'' (an HD movie), during the battle against the Black Cross King's [[spoiler:evil Ranger clones, the clones of the [[Series/DengekiSentaiChangeman Changemen]], [[Series/ChoushinseiFlashman Flashmen]], [[Series/KousokuSentaiTurboranger Turborangers]], [[Series/ChoujuuSentaiLiveman Livemen]] and [[Series/HikariSentaiMaskman Maskmen]]]] attack the Gokaigers and Goseigers with their {{BFG}}s...and by "their [=BFGs=]", we mean ''unremastered stock footage from their original series in TheEighties of them firing their [=BFGs=]''. Considering how amazingly gorgeous the rest of the movie was, the jump to mid-80's quality stock footage was jarring. This happens again later, in the battle against the [[spoiler: Black Cross Colossus, with every mecha joining the fight.]] Nearly all of the finishers used by [[spoiler: the mecha]] are the stock footage of the finishers from their respective series. It can be jarring when it goes from a finisher used in a 2000's series to one used in the early 1990's. Adding insult to injury, the non-mecha vehicles from Goranger and JAKQ, [[spoiler: Variblune]] and [[spoiler: Sky Ace]], respectively, get shiny new CGI models (and [[spoiler: Variblune]] even gets a combo with Gokai-Oh), yet none of the mecha (that didn't already have CGI models) do. On the other hand, at some points it's subverted within the same scene, with certain finishers being seamlessly edited together (such as [[spoiler: Battle Fever Robo and DaiBouken]]).

* ''StockFootageFailure/PowerRangers''

[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
!!!'''In General:'''
* Creator/{{Netflix}} garnered criticism in 2018 and 2019 when several of their original productions were revealed to have used stock footage of real disasters where people had died:
** ''Film/DeathNote2017'' was revealed to have used footage of a fatal Belgian train crash, prompting anger in the country.
** The third season of ''Series/{{Travelers}}'' and ''Film/BirdBox'' were called out for using footage from the deadly 2013 Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, train derailment. Although the creators of ''Travelers'' quickly promised to remove the footage, it took longer for Netflix to agree to edit ''Bird Box''.
!!!'''By Series:'''
%%* In the pilot ''Series/TheAdventuresOfSuperpup'', the Jimmy Olsen mouse actually lampshades one [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aa1apG9oztI at around 7:35]].
* Frequently parodied in ''Series/AllAussieAdventures''. Most obviously, there's a RunningGag where Russell goes to shake someone's hand, and they cut to a closeup of two obviously different hands shaking. There are also numerous driving shots that were obviously filmed in a different state to the rest of the episode.
* The series ''Creator/ArthurCClarke's Mysterious World'' misused film of a Gemini/Titan space launch in a story on an unmanned Mariner mission to Mars.
* Stock Starfury launch footage on ''Series/BabylonFive'' continued to show Sinclair's fighter launching well after he had left the show.
** Possibly justified in that the fighter was one assigned to the station, and would have been left behind when Sinclair transferred out, although its next pilot would presumably have had the chance to paint different nose art on it.
** In the same spirit, a stock CGI model once slipped past them. A shot from the fourth season episode "No Surrender, No Retreat" showed an Earth Alliance warship [[ObligatoryWarCrimeScene firing on civilian transports]]. Since the scene was originally not going to include a closeup of the destroyer, it was given the first set of markings available -- those of the "[[LaResistance good guy]]" ''Agamemnon''. Unfortunately, the shot was reframed and the ship's ID was clearly visible in the final version. (This was fixed in later showings; the ship was re-marked as the ''Pollux''.)
* ''Series/{{Beetleborgs}}'', as a Saban toku adaptation, naturally suffered from this. Most obviously in season 1 with the trio's Sonic Lasers; the US footage had them in a red-and-purple coloration (matching the US toy, which had the color scheme for safety reasons), but the Japanese footage would have it as a realistic-looking black-and-silver coloration. Similar issues cropped up with the AVs, which would be huge in the Japanese model-based stock footage, but not so much when in US CGI form. (However, in a FridgeBrilliance moment, the issues could easily be explained as being Flabber's magic duplicating the inconsistencies of the in-universe ''Beetleborgs'' comic book; it'd be expected for the artist not to draw everything looking the same issue after issue.)
* ''Series/BattlestarGalactica1978'' was bad about this as well. There are 4 shots of Galactica's guns destroying Cylons, about 6 shots of Vipers destroying Cylons, and about 4 shots of Cylons destroying Vipers. This includes the mirror image shots. No wonder Cylons die so easily. They always attack the exact same way. It is blatantly noticeable in same fight scenes in the same episodes.
* The ''Series/{{Baywatch}}'' episode "Lover's Cover" reused footage of a car plunging into the ocean from the Season 2 episode "If Looks Could Kill." The original episode was about a murderer who had a dead guy in her backseat, which means the wrapped up corpse is consequently visible in the "Lover's Cove" scene that contains the recycled shots.
* On ''Series/TheBradyBunch'' the parents drove Bobby to an ice cream eating contest. They left in a blue convertible and came back in a brown station wagon. Must've been a slow news week, because this managed to get into the ''National Enquirer''.
* ''Series/BuckRogersInTheTwentyFifthCentury'' has a particularly noticeable example whenever fighter craft are shown coming into the landing bays on Earth. The series only has two stock-footage shots; one of a single fighter landing, and one of two fighters side-by-side escorting Buck's 20th-century space shuttle (from the pilot episode). Whenever more than one fighter craft is supposed to be landing, they ''try'' to cut away from the latter shot before Buck's shuttle is clearly recognizeable on-screen, but don't always succeed.
%%* Creator/ConanOBrien parodies and [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this frequently, especially in the Conando segments.
* In the episode of ''Dark Matters: Twisted But True'' about Dr. James Van Allen, the StockFootage shot of a rocket launch used to represent the ''Starfish Prime'' exoatmospheric nuclear test is accompanied by audio (overlapped by the narrator's dialogue, yet still quite coherent) that mentions the International Space Station. ''Starfish Prime'' took place in 1962; the first component of the ISS went into orbit in 1998.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'' has a great deal of this to go with its legendary [[NoBudget low budgets]] and SpecialEffectsFailure:
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E2TheDalekInvasionOfEarth "The Dalek Invasion of Earth"]]: An alligator [[TrappedByMountainLions menacing Susan]] is represented by stock footage of a rather small and ineffectual-looking gavial.
** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E4TheRomans The Romans]]", Ian is taken to fight in the arena, and peers out of the bars of his cell to see what it is he's going to fight. What follows is a poorly-edited sequence of lots of different lions in clearly very different zoos, none of which look remotely Roman.
** Happens in-universe in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E7TheSpaceMuseum The Space Museum]]", when the Doctor is hooked up to a mind-reading machine so his captor can find out where his companions are using pictures extracted from his memory. The footage extracted this way is useless because it shows where the companions were when he left them a long while ago, not where they are now. By this time, he's figured out a PsychicBlockDefense and so, when pressed harder, the screen starts producing deliberately ridiculous stock footage of sea lions, etcetera.
** Originally, "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E9TheTimeMeddler The Time Meddler]]" included a very poor quality looking shot of the viking ship approaching. The restoration team used a new scan of the stock footage for the DVD, but found that (by going from a multi-generational 16mm TV recording to a 35mm newsreel extract) [[GoneHorriblyRight the restored stock footage looked too high quality]]. In the end, artificial grain and softness was added to make the stock footage look like the rest of the episode.
** Subverted in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E6TheArk The Ark]]", which starts with a bunch of shots of live animals framed and filmed in a way to resemble stock footage, having Dodo point out an elephant by cutting between a shot of the elephant alone in the frame and Dodo looking at it from the reverse angle... [[SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome and then walking forward, into the frame with the elephant and touching it]].
** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E10TheWarMachines The War Machines]]", WOTAN orders his slaves to make a machine. Splice in stock footage of welders, in completely different lighting, and who (even with the masks on) look absolutely nothing like the slaves.
** Subverted in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E2DoctorWhoAndTheSilurians Doctor Who and the Silurians]]". We're shown footage of a helicopter which cuts back to soldiers travelling about on the hills. Obvious stock footage... until we cut back to the helicopter and we realise it has UNIT written on the side. And then it swerves past the hillside, appearing in the same shot with an actor, as if to say 'ha, look, we CAN afford it'.
** In the 1970s serial "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E5RevengeOfTheCybermen Revenge of the Cybermen]]", the launch of a missile on an alien planet is represented by stock footage of a NASA rocket launch, with the rocket's official markings in English clearly visible. This case became far more amusing a decade later, in that it's the ''same'' stock footage that early MTV used in its hourly station identification clips, which video-loving American viewers of a certain age have seen hundreds if not ''thousands'' of times.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E11TurnLeft "Turn Left"]] is set in a {{crapsack|World}} alternate timeline where the Doctor died because he never met Donna. The episode goes through TheStationsOfTheCanon about various present-day episodes. When it gets to this timeline's version of the Adipose incident from [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E1PartnersInCrime "Partners in Crime"]], footage from the episode of the Adipose marching through the streets of London is obviously recycled in a TV news bulletin... despite the alternate version having occurred in the US due to London having been destroyed at this point.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E13TheNameOfTheDoctor "The Name of the Doctor"]] cuts between stock footage of [[spoiler:the Second Doctor]] and scenes of him recorded with a double from behind. The double doesn't even try to match his movement to the stock footage, especially with the distinctive running style of the character in the footage.
** "[[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor The Day of the Doctor]]":
*** [[spoiler:The Seventh Doctor]] changes outfits between shots.
*** [[spoiler:The Fifth Doctor]]'s hair changes completely in colour, texture and style from the behind shot to the face shot (which had his face pasted onto the body of a double, covering up the ridiculously unconvincing wig).
** Parodied in ''Recap/TheFiveishDoctorsReboot'', in which Creator/TomBaker is portrayed entirely with stock footage from the unfinished serial "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E6Shada Shada]]" (the exact same clips used to FakeShemp him into "[[Recap/DoctorWho20thASTheFiveDoctors The Five Doctors]]"). Since he's in-character as the Doctor in the footage, which shows him at about half his current age, the result is [[MagicRealism hilariously nonsensical]].
* A RunningGag in ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'' has Jazz getting thrown out of the house. The footage of the act in question is always the same, but they've avoided this trope by having Jazz wear the same shirt in scenes where he's about to get thrown out.
* Because a lot of the flight scenes on ''Series/TheGreatestAmericanHero'' reused shots from older episodes, Ralph's hair length would sometimes inexplicably change when he started flying.
* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'': A brief EstablishingShot in the Season 6 episode "Baby Talk" ostensibly shows Marshall's old high school in Minnesota, but the flag flying outside is clearly [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Quebec Quebec's]].
* A common situation on ''Series/IDreamOfJeannie'', where the rocket shown on the pad would be different from the rocket later shown lifting off, which was not the same as the rocket seen in the sky. None of the three would match the capsule shown in orbit.
* An episode of ''Series/KnightRider'' featured [[CoolCar KITT's]] EvilTwin KARR being forced off a cliff; the footage used for this was lifted from the 1977 {{Horror}} film ''Film/TheCar'' featuring a vehicle which does not even begin to resemble a Trans Am. [--At least it was black...--] The show also tended to reuse footage from previous episodes in places that didn't make much sense. In the same episode with KARR, a shot that was supposed to show KARR breaking into some building is obviously KITT with silver star decals from a previous episode stuck on him.
* Like any GovernmentProcedural, ''Series/MadamSecretary'' has to use a lot of stock footage for military actions. In season 1, footage of an ''Arleigh Burke''-class destroyer is used for a "minesweeper" ([[ArtisticLicenseShips on top of saying the minesweeper was armed with depth charges like the destroyer would]]). In season 2, a dogfight between the US and Russian Air Forces uses a mix of Air Force and Navy target practice videos.
* ''Series/MaskedRider'':
** The title hero was based on ''Series/KamenRiderBlackRX'', but some scenes taken from ''Film/KamenRiderZO'' and ''Film/KamenRiderJ'' had the suit noticeably change. How? Well, Black RX's suit was mostly green, but had lots of black too. ZO and J's are both ''entirely green''. Noticeably barely begins to cover this.
** Also, due to some crossed wires when editing out Riderman, when the former Riders (Masked Rider Warriors here) introduced themselves, all but ZX [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r67jBFQXJ7E gave the wrong names]], leading to the fandom's "I AM AMAZON" meme, where "Amazon" was actually Skyrider.
** Even ''Series/KamenRiderDragonKnight'' isn't completely immune. The differences between ''Series/KamenRiderRyuki's'' Alternative and Alternative Zero are extremely minor, but they're there. The Advent Master has been known to switch back and forth.
** It's also pretty obvious when ''KRDK'' switches from American footage to Japanese footage, since the early-2000s ''KR'' series, including ''Series/KamenRiderRyuki'' (this show's basis) had this weird videotape-esque filter over the image.
* ''Series/RedDwarf'':
** Retroactive example. When the ship returns in Series VIII, it has a different design which is alluded to by the characters. The brief appearance at the end of Series VII (a few seconds of ship footage from which were repeated in Series VIII) used stock footage of the model ship that was filmed during series 1 and 2.
** In [[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonIVMeltdown "Meltdown"]], footage from ''Gappa, The Colossal Beast'' is used to represent waxwork dinosaurs, which prompts:
--->'''Kryten:''' I can't tell you how feeble and improbable those creatures were, sir. I've seen more convincing dinosaurs given away free with a packet of Wheaty Flakes.
* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' has a potentially invoked example regarding their "The Rock Obama" sketches. When UsefulNotes/BarackObama [[HulkOut Hulks out]] into [[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson The Rock]], the TransformationSequence shows his shirt and his shoes tearing open. However, later sketches show The Rock Obama wearing a torn shirt, but seemingly un-torn shoes. After Jay Pharaoh replaced Fred Armisen in the role of Barack, the sketches also have him wear a dress jacket that disappears when the transformation begins.
* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' uses the same shuttlecraft footage every time. This is most egregious in "[[{{Recap/StarTrekS3E15LetThatBeYourLastBattlefield}} Let That Be Your Last Battlefield]]", when the shuttlecraft stolen from a Starbase bears the ID number "1701/7". That is, rather than coming from a Starbase, it is a shuttlecraft of NCC-1701, the ''Enterprise'' itself! Either that, or '''every''' Federation shuttlecraft is the ''Galileo''.
* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' uses this on occasion during the Dominion War arc, being cheaper to reuse old battle footage than produce new footage for each battle. Sometimes they alter and re-render the footage: for example, several shots in "Call to Arms" reuse clips from "The Way of the Warrior" with Cardassian ''Hideki''-class ships or Jem'Hadar attack ships swapped in for Klingon birds-of-prey. However, after the USS ''Defiant'' is destroyed and replaced near the end of the series, the new ''Defiant'' sports the previous ship's registry number: Ron Moore stated said the new ''Defiant'' was supposed to be NCC-74205-A rather than NX-74205, but they didn't have the budget to redo every shot for a single episode, even the GrandFinale.
* ''Series/TheSwampFox'' had a huge problem with this. It was often very obvious they were re-using horseback chase scenes from earlier episodes.
* ''Series/TheTimeTunnel'' episode "One Way to the Moon" mixed shots of a real Atlas rocket with scenes lifted from ''Film/DestinationMoon''. It didn't even fool a seven-year-old in 1966.
* The HBO film ''Tuskegee Airmen'' used actual WWII footage filmed from dogfights to represent the characters' own. This wouldn't be so bad, except the footage isn't meant to represent a filmed engagement but a live occurring one, and since WWII film quality wasn't exactly the greatest, the outside cuts and windshield shots of dogfights look unbelievably grainy.
* Even for a Saban show made in the 90's, ''Series/VRTroopers'' has a surprising amount of Stock Footage Failures:
** The footage of Grimlord's palace (and the ''[[Series/ChoujinkiMetalder Metalder]]'' footage in general) always looks fuzzier, darker, and more low quality than the rest of the show, making it very obvious when the footage switches from Japanese to American.
** Adapting two different Metal Hero shows meant that JB and Katlin never fight with Ryan when battling a monster (outside of battle grid mode). With 92 total episodes, this becomes more and more obvious through the course of the series, resulting in a very disjointed feel to the action.
** Due to the limited amount of footage of Grimlord's lair, the amount of soldiers visible in any scene usually fluctuates; sometimes Grimlord would only be addressing the four generals, and the next shot would have the rest of his army suddenly appear.
** In the first season, the goons seen in Grimlord's court were all monsters who'd eventually get to be the monster of an episode. Since stock footage was used for some villains' base scenes, previously defeated monsters were often right there to greet Grimlord as he arrived, just like last week... and some would do battle again, with or without their past demises Handwaved. Many monsters were seen multiple times, with his personal favorites kept into the second season. The most egregious example is Air Striker. This helicopter-based monster was sent nearly every episode, destroyed nearly every episode, and always came back for more. Of course, given the fact that they're computer-generated creations, he can simply recreate any monster he likes.
** The air battles footage is even more limited, with virtually the same sequence of shots being used for every battle; if you've seen one, you've seen them all.
** In "The Great Brain Robbery", when Snowbot is attacking Katlyn and JB with his flamethrower and frost gun, another fighter can be seen next to them (which is the third warrior from ''Series/JikuuSenshiSpielban'', Helen Lady). Katlin would later get the ability to create a mirror clone of herself, probably written to prevent any more inconsistencies.
** In "Three Strikes", the look of the apartment rapidly changes between the Japanese and American footage, with the floor and wall changing colors.
** In "Game Over", Despera suddenly [[ShesAManInJapan becomes a man]] when fighting Ryan.
* ''Series/{{Wonder Woman|1975}}'': Fans of ''Series/{{Space 1999}}'' were no doubt left puzzled as to why a future earth city shown in an episode looked like Moonbase Alpha, due to the US show borrowing an establishing shot from the then-still-recent UK-made series. Counts as a fail because in 1977-78, when the episode in question aired, ''Space: 1999'' was still in wide syndication and still a current series.
* In one episode of "The Substitute" (a Nickelodeon show), when talking about the special effect artists' many movie projects, [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/TheSpongebobSquarepantsMovie one of the posters]] shown is clearly an [[https://poohadventures.fandom.com/wiki/Pooh%27s_Adventures_of_The_SpongeBob_SquarePants_Movie edited poster]] made for an WebVideo/PoohsAdventures project, as shown by the various random characters edited into it. Pointed out [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uve9fB2uuac here]].
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* In the last episode of ''Anime/DigimonFrontier'', when [[spoiler:the Chosen Children fuse together into Susanooomon]], the evolution footage shows Takuya and Koji's first Digivices rather than their current ones.

-->-- '''[[http://www.tomparisdorm.com/viewstory.php?sid=4084 Plan 7 of 9 from Outer Space]]'''

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[[folder:Films — Live Action]]

* All over the place in ''Film/{{Midway}}''. Mitigated somewhat in that casual audiences might miss them, but stick out blatantly to anyone with even a ''little'' knowledge of WWII aviation:
** A crashing SBD Dauntless dive bomber at the end of the film uses what may be the same footage of an FH-1 as in ''The Hunt For Red October'', as listed above.

** A B-17 crash-landing at Midway was stock footage also used in ''Film/ToraToraTora''. Doubly egregious because the aircraft not only is flying an earlier-war paint scheme, but because the runway it was utilizing was at a large and fully-paved airbase. Midway was...not.

* During the surgery scenes in ''Film/NightOfTheBloodyApes'', taken from a medical instructional film, three sets of hands are present - two operating and the third administering anaesthesia - even as the long shots indicate that only the protagonist Dr. Krallman and his assistant Goyo are present in the room.

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* Towards the end of ''[[WesternAnimation/FelixTheCatTheMovie Felix the Cat: The Movie]]'', stock footage of Princess Orianna getting captured from the beginning of the film is used near the end of the film; the animators didn't even bother to change the background.
* ''Film/TeamAmericaWorldPolice'' features the song "Freedom isn't Free" accompanied by footage of Gary visiting American memorials. Except there are normal people walking in background - in a puppet film. Considering the film is full of StylisticSuck, this was most likely intentional.

* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' uses the same shuttlecraft footage every time. This is most egregious in "[[{{Recap/StarTrekS3E15LetThatBeYourLastBattlefield}} Let That Be Your Last Battlefield]]", when the shuttlecraft stolen from a Starbase bears the ID number "1701/7". That is, rather than coming from a Starbase, it is a shuttlecraft of NCC 1701, the Enterprise itself! Either that, or 'every' Federation shuttlecraft is the Galileo.

** Subverted in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E6TheArk The Ark]]", which starts with a bunch of shots of live animals framed and filmed in a way to resemble stock footage, having Dodo point out an elephant by cutting between a shot of the elephant alone in the frame and Dodo looking at it from the reverse angle... and then walking forward, into the frame with the elephant and touching it.

** Subverted in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E6TheArk The Ark]]", which starts with a bunch of shots of live animals framed and filmed in a way to resemble stock footage, having Dodo point out an elephant by cutting between a shot of the elephant alone in the frame and Dodo looking at it from the reverse angle... [[SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome and then walking forward, into the frame with the elephant and touching it]].

** During its first season, Tony Stark would [[TransformationSequence change into his Iron Man suit]] OncePerEpisode and we were treated to [[ConspicuousCGI a crudely done CGI sequence of this]]. The problem? They only made one animation of this sequence, and Tony would suddenly be in a lab (when he had previously been in space, the desert, in a forest, etc.) and in the same clothes he wore in the first ep.

** The footage of Grimlord's palace (and the [[Series/ChoujinkiMetalder Metalder]] footage in general) always looks fuzzier, darker, and more low quality than the rest of the show, making it very obvious when the footage switches from Japanese to American.

** Due to the limited amount of footage of Grimlord's lair, the amount of soldiers visible in any scene usually fluctuates, sometimes Grimlord addressing the four generals and the next shot having the rest of his army suddenly appear.

** The air battles footage is even more limited, with virtually the same sequence of slips being used for every battle; if you've seen one, you've seen them all.
** In "The Great Brain Robbery", when Snowbot is attacking Katlyn and JB with his flamethrower and frost gun, another fighter can be seen next to them (which is the third warrior from Series/JikuuSenshiSpielban, Helen Lady). Katlin would later get the ability to create a mirror clone of herself, probably written to prevent any more inconsistencies.

* ''Gigan,'' in turn, is a source of stock footage for ''TerrorOfMechagodzilla.'' Note how the orange muscle car belonging to the Interpol agent turns into the orange hatchback from ''Gigan'' when it blows up.

* During the surgery scenes in ''Film/NightOfTheBloodyApes'', three sets of hands are present - two operating and the third administering anaesthesia - even as the long shots indicate that only the protagonist Dr. Krallman and his assistant Goyo are present in the room.

* ''Series/{{Firefly}}'': ''Film/{{Serenity}}'' is classified as a 03-K64-Firefly in the first aired episode ("[[Recap/FireflyE02TheTrainJob The Train Job]]"), but some shots in the original pilot episode ("[[Recap/FireflyE01Serenity Serenity]]") of the ship in the black are of the newer 03-[=KC11=]-Firefly. It is not known how Creator/JossWhedon obtained those shots.