Atlantic Crossing and anachronisms.

[ananda]

OK, I've been watching the PBS show Atlantic Crossing,
dealing with the Norwegian royal family during WW II,
starting in 1940.

I like the show gernerally, but I found two anachronisms
that were kind of annoying.

First, when the Nodrwegians arrive at Buckingham
Palace, there's a reference to TV stations covering it.
I don't think there were TV stations in 1940.

Secondly, there's a scene where the King of England
is playing bridge with the Norwegians, and one of them
actually uses the word "alert." That word was not used
back then. In fact, they played rubber bridge using a
very simplistic bidding bystem.

Bridge didn't evolve as far as needing to alert bids until
the 1970's or so. It makes me think the writers sat in
on a modern bridge game to get the terminolgy without
realizing it didn't exist back then.