At the end we learn that Tattoo has supposedly been taking lots of pictures with the lens cap on his camera. His camera is an SLR (Single Lens Reflex) which has TTL, Through The Lens viewfinder. So while the "joke" is that Tattoo is only using the camera to look at pretty girls; with the cap on he wouldn't have been able to see the pretty girls. The first mass-produced auto-focus camera was the Konica C35 AF, a simple point and shoot model released in 1977. They should have used the Konica camera for this gag.
In Salem in the 1600s, witches were hanged, not burned at the stake. Burning them was actually a European thing. And the hangings only happened after a trial - they weren't sentenced on the spot and executed the next morning.
Incorrectly quoted, what Mr. Tate actually said was: "Salem? They burn people here at the stake." What they chose to do was dunk him for his "crimes". Later, the threat of being burned at the stake for being an agent of Satan is brought up but is still not completely erroneous. They were not burning people accused of witchcraft in colonial America but they were burning people for the same "crime" during this time, in Europe.
[Therefore, original comment that [The statement by Stuart Whitman, Mr. Tate, that they burned people for witchcraft was NOT totally erroneous. No one was burned for witchcraft [in colonial America]. The 19 executed for witchcraft in 1692 were all hung. One who was accused, Giles Cory, was pressed to death [with heavy stones] while trying to get him to plea [guilty to witchcraft]. Several others died of various diseases while incarcerated in the jails of Salem, Ipswich and others.]
Charity stated that she had married at age 13 only because she had held out not to marry at 11. This is a gross error for 1690's Massachusetts. Women seldom married before they were 19-20 or older. The majority of marriages at younger ages were due to pregnancy. Source information is from the published vital records of the towns of early Massachusetts from 1600-1850. The legal age of majority for both men and women at the time was 21.