About 48 minutes in, as Flashman and Rudi enter Strackenz, one of the cheering townspeople pulls out a compact camera and takes a photo of the procession.
Near the beginning of the film, the music playing in the gambling club is by Scott Joplin, written in 1901. The film is set in 1848.
An ambassador from the Kingdom of Naples is announced. Naples was merged into the Kingdom of Two Sicilies in 1816, when Bismarck was a baby.
As the Headmaster introduces Flashman, the orchestra plays the final bars of Elgar's "Pomp And Circumstance" March #1, composed in 1901. The film takes place in 1848.
About 47 minutes in, Flashman strikes a red ball with his cue. In all variants of billiards the cue ball is white.