If there’s one thing that drives folk on the Internet, it’s pettiness. Being right matters, dammit. This is why IMDB’s Goofs section is a terrible, terrible idea. The idea of a list of goofs in general is appealing - despite the horrible American name, only slightly better than "blooper".
The stamp used by the parole hearings people in 1947 prints in the Helvetica font, which was not invented until 1957.
In typical Internet fashion though, people are racing to the bottom to find the most obscure, nitpicky, unimportant things wrong with films and leave their mark on the world.
What constitutes an actual goof or mistake? We’re going with mistake, because it’s a normal word used by normal people. ...