Best movie continuity mistakes of 1950

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Cinderella picture Cinderella mistake picture

Continuity mistake: As Cinderella descends the staircase after her wedding to The Prince, she is obviously wearing a long sleeved gown. When she waves through the window of the carriage, however, the gown is short sleeved.

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The Asphalt Jungle picture

Continuity mistake: Doc Riedenschneider calls on Cobby in a dark hallway with brick walls and a door in the end with a half-open transom. Through this door, in the adjacent room, there are several gangsters seated a table. They go down the hallway and enter this room. In the next scene they have entered and the seated gangsters are suddenly no longer there. Nor is there a transom over the door. The hallway viewed from this room has white walls now instead of brick.

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Sunset Blvd. picture Sunset Blvd. mistake picture

Continuity mistake: When Joe awakens after his first night at Norma's mansion, his shirt is un-tucked as he puts on his jacket to go outside. When he is running down the stairs in the next shot, his shirt is tucked in. (00:26:35)

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Harvey picture

Continuity mistake: Veta and her daughter are getting out the tablecloth. The daughter mentions Harvey's name and Veta shushes her. Cut back to the table being visible. In seconds, the tablecloth goes from barely unfolded to neatly spread out and straight.

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Kim (1950)

Kim picture

Continuity mistake: Near the end, Kim's string of beads alternates between being tucked inside his jacket in full shots and hanging outside the coat, draped over his lapels, in close-ups.

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Rio Grande picture

Continuity mistake: In the scene towards the end of the film, when three troopers creep into the church, Margaret Mary hits Sandy over the head. When Margaret Mary starts to speak, a ribbon around her neck curiously unravels itself and disappears behind her back .

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King Solomon's Mines picture

Continuity mistake: When Deborah Kerr is climbing a tree her boots are clearly shown as dirty and scuffed. Shortly afterward she is seen wearing a pair of shiny new looking boots. She would hardly be carrying a spare pair whilst trekking through the jungle.

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Destination Moon picture

Continuity mistake: When the crew do their EVA they start out standing "upside down" on the hull of the rocket with sunlight from the left. They then travel around the hull 180 degrees, an as they do the Sun is suddenly on the right. (00:50:40)

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Golden Yeggs picture

Continuity mistake: When the butler returns Rocky's laundry with Daffy on it, the position of the butler's thumbs on the laundry change between shots.

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Canary Row picture

Continuity mistake: When Sylvester runs into the Broken Arms Apartment Building, you can see the front door of the entrance has nothing on it, but when Sylvester is being attacked by the guard in the next shot, there are metal bars on the door.

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Rabbit of Seville picture

Continuity mistake: After Bugs Bunny has snipped off Elmer Fudd's pants suspender buttons, you can see Elmer's gun is directly behind him. But when Elmer picks up his gun to try and shoot Bugs, the gun is now by his foot.

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Saturday Evening Puss picture

Continuity mistake: When Tom traps Jerry in the blinds, he pulls the cord and squashes Jerry. At this point, you can see Tom is holding the cord, but when we Jerry sliding down the blinds in the next shot, Tom is no longer holding the cord.

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Texas Tom picture

Continuity mistake: At the beginning of the cartoon, Tom lifts a flower pot to reveal a cowering Jerry. But after Tom has caught Jerry with his lasso, he pulls him back but the flower pot is nowhere to be seen.

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Cheaper by the Dozen picture

Continuity mistake: The family are at the beach, swimming. Frank is drying himself off with a towel, which he drops out of his left hand - we can't see below his waist, the camera is aimed higher - but, suddenly, the towel is now in his right hand.

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Hillbilly Hare picture

Continuity mistake: When Bugs is square dancing with the hillbilly brothers in the hall, you can see that the hall has a decoration on the wall, but in the next shot the decoration has disappeared.

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Pluto's Heart Throb picture

Continuity mistake: Before Dinah the Dachshund enters her home, the door flap is open. In the next shot, it is closed.

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An Egg Scramble picture

Continuity mistake: When Porky inspects Prissy for eggs, you can see that the nest to her has nothing on the wall, but when Porky threatens Prissy to lay an egg, a sign with "Daphne" on it has appeared.

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Annie Get Your Gun picture

Continuity mistake: When Annie finishes her song about "doin' what comes naturally," she grabs her rifle and uses the butt to shoo the children towards the house. The man she is talking to is close enough that she could touch him with the gun if she wanted too. The shot changes to a longer shot of the same view and the man is suddenly 5 or 6 feet further away, where the gun would no longer reach him.

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Bunker Hill Bunny picture

Continuity mistake: When we first see the "They" flag on Yosemite Sam's fort, it is completely fine. When Sam says "Ahoy, there!" there is now a hole in the top right hand corner.

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The Cariboo Trail picture

Continuity mistake: At the saloon, Jim brushes off Mr. Walsh and walks out on him. Walsh turns to Francie the bartender, who suddenly is holding the bottle that was undisturbed on the counter a moment before. (00:17:25)

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