Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-4411406-20160523194049

I think I've come across a filming/editing mistake in Captain America: The First Avenger.

In the scene where the Red Skull and Arnim Zola observe that Zola's machine was able to transfer and store the energy of the Tesseract, I noticed that Zola's HYDRA lapel was on the right lapel of his lab coat. At first I thought it was an honest and overlooked detail made during production but now I'm not so sure.

Now I'm convinced that somehow the scene somehow got flipped so everything we see on the screen became reversed.

Besides Zola's lapel pin, the storage battery that's connected to Zola's machine is on the wrong side of the table. If we assume that the office's window looks out to the west, then the table runs north and south with the battery container facing the east (the screen). Based on a pervious scene, we can see that there is only one battery connected to the machine. And when Zola and the Red Skull see that Tesseract's energy has been captured, they look back to the machine the Tesseract was placed in. But that machine is at the north end of the room wnd Zola and the Skull are looking to the south towards the main entrance to the Skull's office. 