A Third of the Gear On Board

[Ram Man]

Since we're on the subject..... If my memory serves me correctly I do believe that there are a few flipped scenes in TOD. It's been awhile since I have watched it but I believe that the shooting star scene on the hilltop with Short Round was flipped and I also seem to remember the scene where they were approaching the temple immediately after Indy says "we walk from here" might have been flipped.

I'm only going from memory but it might be fun to check.....

[Gunslinger]

A lot of the time it's due to a continuity error - Watch the scene in Star Wars where Luke is drinking out of the white cup - but it often happens if the director has accidentally "crossed the line" when blocking and shooting a scene. So people are 180 degrees out of whack to the flow of the action, so you have to flip the shot to make it not jar.

[JeffDJ]

In the Star Wars movies, there was one in ROTJ that stood out: On the skiff where Han & Luke are catching up ("You're gonna die here, you know.") is flipped. Again, you can tell by Ford's "backwards" face (nose, scar), not to mention Chewie's bandolier is over the wrong shoulder. Also, The Phantom Menace had several flipped shots, and the telltale in those was R2-D2, whose features are quite distinct and so easy to identify when flipped.

[Louisianna James]

I believe that the bridge and airplane hat are the same hat by the creases in the ribbon. I think that they shot the the bridge scene before the airplane scene by the looks of the hat, at the bridge the hat looks perfect, then it probably got beat up and wet probably in the big rushing water after the mine cart scene or the raft ride scene, then the hat turns out what it looks in the airplane scene, TADA the "Liontamer Style hat" as i call it

[HENRY JONES JR.]

A lot of the time it's due to a continuity error - Watch the scene in Star Wars where Luke is drinking out of the white cup - but it often happens if the director has accidentally "crossed the line" when blocking and shooting a scene. So people are 180 degrees out of whack to the flow of the action, so you have to flip the shot to make it not jar.

Your right Gunslinger, That is the reason.