 CONT: In the scenes showing the arrival of the military, Klaatus  injury and the eradication of the weapons, the shadows of the  military equipment, spaceship and actors change radically. The first  shadows shown of the tanks are long as if the time of day were  either very early morning, or, more likely, late afternoon. Then  Klaatu leaves the spaceship, he throws a fairly short shadow such as  one showing within an hour or two of noon. The tanks and Gort also  show the short shadows. When Gort starts to destroy the tanks and  weapons the shadows are still indicating that its perhaps 2pm. When  he finishes, a few moments later, the shadows are long and drawn  out, like they were at the beginning of the scene. In movie time, no  more than 10