The characters on the picnic in the Blue Mountains are wearing modern joggers that weren't in existence in the 1950's.
When Fay and Rudi go to inspect the apartment the letterboxes have reflective number stickers on them which weren't available in 1959.
When Lisa/Lesley is dancing with her mum in the front yard there is a flashing blue light from [presumably] a contemporary police car in the background.
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.
In the 1950's most men wore a hat. Very few men in the movie are wearing a hat, especially when out walking and travelling on trams. A newly arrived European man would have an even greater tendency to wear a hat regardless of them being a fashion statement that surged in the 50's.
When Fay is out to dinner her boyfriend asks how she likes her Goulasch. She is eating meat with minimal sauce with a fork and knife. Goulasch resembles a soup primarily of meat, tomato, potatoes and hot sausage and can't be eaten with a fork and knife. What Australians incorrectly all Goulasch is what Hungarians call Poekoelt and therefore a Hungarian would not call what Fay is eating Goulasch.
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.
Travelling to Mosman there is a view to the Harbour Bridge above and it has a diamond symbol on it that was not present in the 1950's.
In the background of the Hyde Park fountain scene, modern grey posts can be seen in the background.
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.
When Rudi and Fay are guests at the luncheon they kiss at the table. This would have been completely inappropriate in the 50's.
The shop assistants are travelling by public transport. They are standing along with many women and several men are seated. In the 1950's men would have insisted on vacating their seat for women and men would have been standing.