Best movie mistakes of 1937

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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs picture Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs mistake picture

Continuity mistake: When the seven dwarves run scared down the stairs and out of the door, Dopey pulls the handle of the door from the inside until it breaks out and falls away. The next scene when the dwarf opens the door, the handle is there again. (00:33:00)

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The Good Earth picture

Continuity mistake: During the locust invasion, two of Paul Muni's men collapse and are covered in locusts. Muni picks them up, but suddenly, all of the locusts have disappeared.

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A Day at the Races picture

Continuity mistake: In the scene showing Groucho being chased across the cars as they enter the race course, in the shot from behind you see him running along the rail only to slip, the following shot is from the front and shows the same slip he's already made.

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Revealing mistake: When the piano lid smashes Cary Grant's fingers, the lid obviously stops inches above his hand, even though a drink is positioned on the piano in an attempt to hide the gap.

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A Car-Tune Portrait picture A Car-Tune Portrait mistake picture

Continuity mistake: The Lion sees a cat in his orchestra sleeping and looks to the right of his podium (from his perspective). But moments later when the view switches to behind the lion, he is looking at the cat to the left of his podium. (00:04:35)

Quantom X

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Continuity mistake: In a saloon, Moe and Curly are playing poker with Longhorn Pete, the proprietor. Among Curly's five cards are an ace of hearts and an ace of diamonds. Moe's cards include an ace of spades and an ace of clubs. They pass some of the cards to each other under the table in the hope that one of them will wind up with all four aces. When their cards are shown again, Curly and Moe each have an ace of spades and ace of clubs. The ace of hearts and ace of diamonds have disappeared.

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Lonesome Ghosts picture Lonesome Ghosts mistake picture

Continuity mistake: When Goofy searches through the dresser drawers one of the ghosts causes trouble, then Goofy breaks through the top of the dresser and winds up trapped inside, but when all four ghosts appear the dresser top is perfectly fine and that damage has vanished. Also, two of the drawers (one large and one small) fall out of the dresser, but as the four ghosts are pushing the dresser those two drawers have reappeared in their proper places.

Super Grover

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She Was an Acrobat's Daughter picture

Continuity mistake: When we see the animals change seats at the start of the cartoon, you can see there is an aisle in the middle of the theatre, but when the show begins in the next shot, the aisle has disappeared.

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Continuity mistake: The entries into Quartermain's journal are supposedly covering events during 1881 and 1882. The entries consist of a day and a date, but no month. Taken in order, they cannot fit into the 1881-1882 calendar. For example, the two entries immediately before the June eclipse can only be in August 1882.

Noman

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Tim Tyler's Luck picture

Other mistake: In the opening credits the actor Everett Brown is credited as Everette Brown. (00:01:05)

Sammo

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Nothing Sacred picture

Revealing mistake: A disgraced Willy Wallace is relegated to a terrible desk in the bowels of the Morning Star. Some guy puts a ladder right above him, and various pictures start falling on him, who has already had used paper cups dumped on him by his terrible coworkers. During this sequence, the cup is glued/tacked onto Fredric March's hat in close-up, standing perfectly upright as opposed to the tilt of the other camera angle.

Sammo

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Porky's Duck Hunt picture

Continuity mistake: When Porky arrives home, you can see a window looking outside to the right of the front door, but when Porky shoots the man upstairs a second time, the front door now leads to a hallway with a staircase.

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Continuity mistake: Helen Bartlett is on the phone with her friend Daisy, who says she can't join her but is conned into leaving her workplace by Carole Lombard faking suicide. During the scene, Una Merkel's desk is arranged differently depending on the camera angle; a closer angle has room for just the telephone, while in the wider angle she also has a notebook in front of her. (00:06:50)

Sammo

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Revealing mistake: Stan is using a block and tackle to hoist Ollie up to the balcony of Finn's apartment. When Stan lets go of the rope, Ollie falls and lands flat on his back. It is obvious by the awkward angle of the legs that a dummy was used. In addition, the dummy lands with the legs close together but in the shot that follows, Ollie's legs are far apart and one leg is in the air.

Steven Lee

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Continuity mistake: When lawyer Goodwill is in the secret laboratory, he picks up a bottle that has "Jekyll and Hyde Juice" written on the label, but when we see him with the bottle in the next shot, the words have disappeared.

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