Simon Underwood wrote:I can't believe no-one's mentioned the Gibson ES345 in Back To The Future yet, a guitar that didn't exist in 1955!
Simon
There was also the infamous Case of "The Buddy Holly Story", in which Our Hero plays Fender guitars that didn't exist whilst he was alive:
(a) a red rosewood-board Bronco (introduced in the late 1960s)
(b) a rosewood-board Telecaster (introduced some months after he died) and
(b) a rosewood-board Stratocaster with the large CBS-era headstock and heavy block CBS-era lettering (though mercifully, no bullet truss adjuster), introduced in the very late 1960s.
Buddy cannot have even seen a Fender rosewood-board guitar other than a Jazzmaster (1958).
Eddie Cochran is shown in the same film as playing a Gretsch Duo-Jet instead of his Gretsch 6120 (though at least the orange colour was right).
The movie is nowadays held up by the (substantial) Hollywood prop-hire industry as the perfect example of how not to do historical instrument placement.
It was made worse by contemporary press reports which claimed that the Fender Musical Instruments company had co-operated with the producers in order to provide period-correct vintage instruments. In fact, not a single electric guitar was correct, though a Gibson J-45 used by "Buddy" was, for all intents and purposes, the real thing.