Best movie continuity mistakes of 1946

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It's a Wonderful Life picture It's a Wonderful Life mistake picture

Continuity mistake: In a scene near the end of the movie, George enters the Building and Loan with a Christmas wreath on his arm. On hearing that he has a phone call from his brother Harry, he tosses the wreath on a table and picks up the phone. In the next second, the wreath is back on his arm. (01:17:35)

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Continuity mistake: Marlowe sits in front of Joe Brody's apartment building, The Randall Arms. Later as he follows the gunman that shot Brody we see it from inside the car and the registration stickers are different. (00:47:40 - 00:57:20)

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Continuity mistake: In the penultimate scene when Susan has just gotten off the train and is running to Ned Trent, you see her fall over flat on her face and then sit up. Cut to the close up where Ned has also fallen over, Susan is flat on her face again. (01:36:00)

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Continuity mistake: When Frank, the DA and the policeman are discussing the accident, the policeman notices the electrocuted cat and it is shown next to the ladder. In the subsequent wide shot the cat is lying between the beams of the ladder. (00:42:50 - 00:43:35)

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Continuity mistake: When Tom is chasing Jerry in the kitchen, Jerry lands in the sink and pulls out the plug, revealing a pile of dishes. When Tom falls into the dishes, Jerry disappears.

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Continuity mistake: When Butch is chasing Tom, Tom puts a flowerpot on a swing which crashes into Butch and it leaves earth on the floor. But when Butch uses a guitar to spank Tom when he comes down on the swing, the earth has completely disappeared.

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Continuity mistake: Screwy Squirrel puts some glue on the floor and Lenny treads on the glue, ripping off his paws in the process. At this point, you can see Lenny is in bare feet, but when he is walking a few seconds later, his paws are back on his feet again.

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Continuity mistake: When the inebriated cuckoo pops out of the cuckoo clock at the beginning of the short, his feet are yellow, but when we see a close-up of the cuckoo in the next shot, his feet are now orange.

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Continuity mistake: The Cadillac limo changes models at times, also having blackwall or whitewall tires.

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Continuity mistake: Johnny and Toby are heading to a frog pond. Johnny stops by a fence and considers taking a shortcut through the pasture until Toby warns him of the bull in the pasture. When the two boys turn around, the fence is suddenly several feet away.

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Continuity mistake: When the convict trips outside the plastic surgeon's office, the sign on the window reads "plastic surgery" which changes to "plastic surgeon" in the very next shot.

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Continuity mistake: When we see the cats lounging around, the bottle the drunken cat is holding has nothing on the label, but in the next shot it now reads "Arsenic and Old Grapes."

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Continuity mistake: When one of the Gas House Gorillas takes the plate umpire's place during the game, you can see that the fence behind him has nothing on top of it, but when he calls Bugs out, a net has appeared.

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Continuity mistake: When Bugs is turning the pages of his piano book, he sees a woman in a bikini and then carries on turning until he gets to the right page. When he gets to the right page, the style of the notes changes between shots.

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Continuity mistake: When the newsreel begins at the movie theatre, we see the back garden of a family home and you can see that the screen on the radar has nothing above it, but when we see a close-up of the radar in the next shot, a sign with the word "Radar" has appeared.

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Continuity mistake: The hotel door at the beginning of the short does not have a handle on it, but when the door opens in the next shot, a handle suddenly appears.

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