indy was not a math scholar... film blooper?

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Posted by e from 209.224.46.102 on December 02, 1999 at 13:56:41:

hey

after not having seen it for a long while, i watched "raiders" on video this weekend.

something struck me as odd. pardon me if this has been discussed (i am a board newcomer), and please correct me if i heard or interpreted something wrong.

when indy and sallah take the headpiece to the old man to have its markings read, the old man reads the height of the staff to be "6 kadam" (sp?).

sallah remarks "about 72 inches."

the old man continues, saying that that the other side instructs to "take back one kadam to honor..."

if i heard all this correctly, a kadam is equivalent to a foot, and with the prescribed cutback, the staff would be 5 feet tall.

when indy is in the map room, the staff is clearly much taller than that.

so was EVERYBODY "digging in the wrong place?"

e
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