I’m no longer a regular viewer of CSI, but someone who is spotted a glaring anachronism in the most recent episode:
“Did anyone else notice the old (aka early 90s) nighttime air shot of the Strip? It showed the old Holiday Inn Riverboat* on the strip, adjacent to Casino Royale! I wonder why they had to dig into old film archives when they have so much current footage?!!!”
(* — now Harrah’s Las Vegas)
Good question. Perhaps CBS-TV budgetary pressures are causing the CSI showrunners to dip into the stock-footage vault but something as sloppy as what you describe is pretty inexcusable. Also, wouldn’t footage so old match poorly with the much higher resolution in which the various CSI shows are shot? ‘Tis a puzzlement.
A friend of mine is an film/TV editor in Hollywood. He is constantly under deadline when a series is in prodcution. He has told me tales from editing where the post production crew will usually grab what they can, as cheaply as they can to complete the current show and put it together — hoping no ones notices — the inconsistences. This is usually a result of the film production crew “forgetting” to film sequences in scenes. As for the old footage, you are correct to assume it was cheaper than usung the most recent shot film.