As the girl is trying to get her dad to sign her uni form he is watching the races where Gallilee beats Light fingers, these 2 horses were born in 1963 and 1961 yet the movie is summer 1959/60
There's a scene at Istvan's house where goulash is served. Depending on geography Goulash can be a stew or a soup. It is definitely a soup in Hungary so people use spoons to eat it and not forks as it was described in the movie.
Ed is seen watching a horse race on television. Two of the horses names (Galilee and Light Fingers) were foaled several years after the movie was set.
At 31:44, a calendar of October 1959 is shown, beginning on Tuesday. October 1 1959 was actually a Thursday.
Numerous Sydney electric trams are featured in the film, set in November/December 1959, it should be noted that all the electric trams in the Sydney CBD, were all replaced by diesel buses. Ending 100 years of tram services, Sydney's last electric tram ran in the Sydney CBD from Hunter Street in the city and then along Elizabeth Sreet in the city, Oxford Street, and along Anzac Parade to La Perouse on 25th of February 1961.
In the scene with the Tram & Tram stop next to Mark Foys they forgot to CGI out the lawn beside the Tram Stop.
Movie is set in Sydney in 1959, but in a shot of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Harry Seidler's Blues Point Tower was visible, but that tower was only built in 1962.
On Elizabeth Street, outside the Goodes department store on Elizabeth Street, Fay (Rachael Taylor) gets off an electric tram arriving from Circular Quay, but all the destination signs on the tram, incorrectly show that the tram is going to Circular Quay and Elizabeth Street.
There is a scene where Lesley (Angourie Rice) is reading a book in the park during her lunch break. This was filmed in Hyde Park Sydney however in the distance in the left of the screen you can clearly see present day Sydney traffic from 2017. This is despite the films setting in 1959.
There is a scene where people are playing cricket. It appears that the batsmen are wearing helmets. Batsmen did not start wearing helmets until the 1970's.
LADIES IN BLACK is set in December 1959, plus January 1960. Daughter Lisa Miles (Angourie Rice) is trying to get her dad (Shane Jacobson) to sign her application form dated Saturday 12-12-1959 to apply for a Commonwealth Scholarship to pay for her entire university education, whilst her distracted dad is watching horse racing on their television. However the horse racing footage shows a Sydney horse race, where horse number 14 is the winner, whilst naming the winners of the 1966 Melbourne Cup horse race, that was held on the afternoon of Tuesday 1st November 1966 - 1966 MELBOURNE CUP, 1st Place Galilee, 2nd Place Light Fingers, 3rd Place Duo. The winner, the four year old Bay Gelding who was foaled in 1963, GALILEE had sadlecloth number four. In 1959 horse racing was heard on radio, seen in newsreel footage shown at most cinemas and at Newsreel Cinemas in each Australian Capital City, but in 1959 there were no live television broadcasts of any Australian horse races.In 1959 all Sydney horse races move clockwise, and all Melbourne horse races move counter-clockwise (anti-clockwise).
In 1959 Sydney residential single-phase two-wire mains electricity service flows overhead from the street service pole via two insulated wires to the two insulators at the service point located outside the house at roof level, where the Home Wiring System begins that sends electricity to the main meter box. The red brick house, where Lisa Miles (Angourie Rice) lives with her parents (Susie Porter and Shane Jacobson), incorrectly shows its mains electricity service with one aerial bundled cable that was only installed in Sydney from the 1980s, with just the one insulated outdoor Double Core Double Insulated Cable Wire connected using only one of the two electricity insulators visible at the service point.
The vision of the 1966 Melbourne Cup race called by Melbourne's own Bert Bryant does not match the vision that is showing on the television as it is a Sydney race and the horses are racing the opposite way to Melbourne's way of racing. (movie set in 1959)
Despite being set in 1959/60, "First Fleet" class catamaran ferries - built between 1984 and 1986 - appear in several shots.