When #14 picks up the phone she has just plugged into the machine to feed words to the female in #6's dream, it is clearly not connected to anything. In the next scene it has a cord connecting it to the machine that would have been seen the way she was holding the phone in the previous scene.
Number 14 holds a black briefcase when Number Six follows her. She takes the briefcase with her when she starts to leave the building. As she walks down the corridor, the briefcase disappears.
When Number Six is first brought in and placed on a table, there's a machine that encircles his head. A close-up shows one of the machine's pads is already placed on his temple. A moment later, that pad is up in the air and Number Fourteen puts it on his temple.
One previous comment mentions that when Number 6 drops a glass of water, a thin stream of water falls from the ceiling!
In fact, if one looks at it frame by frame, one can see that the trickle of water actually comes from below, is partly hidden by the body of Number 6 and then one sees the end of the trickle above his head (in the upper part of the screen).
It is indeed the water of the glass, which, because of its narrow shape and because of the impact on the table where it falls perfectly vertically, gushes upwards (fun fact about the laws of physics!).
Do the experiment with, for example, a plastic soda bottle, filled with water, which you let fall (uncorked) on the floor perfectly vertically.
In fact, if one looks at it frame by frame, one can see that the trickle of water actually comes from below, is partly hidden by the body of Number 6 and then one sees the end of the trickle above his head (in the upper part of the screen).
It is indeed the water of the glass, which, because of its narrow shape and because of the impact on the table where it falls perfectly vertically, gushes upwards (fun fact about the laws of physics!).
Do the experiment with, for example, a plastic soda bottle, filled with water, which you let fall (uncorked) on the floor perfectly vertically.
At about 18 min. 10 sec., after McGoohan drinks from a teacup and falls over -- crew laughter can be heard in the background -- doubling the entertainment value of a well performed scene.
At 37:30 on the third night of the procedure when No. 6 thinks he's outsmarted his captors and drank a glass of water instead of the drugged tea, as he starts to feel woozy and drops the glass of water, for some odd reason a squirt of water comes down in front of him from the ceiling. When the shot pans down you can see the dropped glass of water on a table in the foreground, but the carpet is wet from the water from the ceiling.
Number 6 is supposedly under constant surveillance in The Village, and yet he is able to break into Number 14's lab undetected.
If Number 6 hadn't tampered with the third syringe & let the dream play out, presumably showing that he had no plans to defect, then the village authorities may have let him go. They still wouldn't have known why he resigned, but at least they'd know he wasn't a traitor.
When Number Six is going to leave the party after first meeting A, the boom mic is visible behind a door in the top right corner when Number Six says, "You never could take a hint."
When Number Six breaks into the laboratory where the dream-manipulation procedures are being done to him, he discovers a syringe containing the drug that enables the manipulation. To foil the final procedure, he dilutes the drug with a clear liquid he finds in a nearby beaker.
However, the normally cautious and meticulous Number Six doesn't even check what the liquid may be before drawing it into the syringe. He knows it will be injected into him later. This is a gratuitous error by an intelligent character who is clearly aware of what is being done to him. He would not take it on faith that the liquid is presumably water without checking first.
However, the normally cautious and meticulous Number Six doesn't even check what the liquid may be before drawing it into the syringe. He knows it will be injected into him later. This is a gratuitous error by an intelligent character who is clearly aware of what is being done to him. He would not take it on faith that the liquid is presumably water without checking first.