Best movie continuity mistakes of 1953

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The Robe picture

Continuity mistake: Jesus's garment appears to shrink during this movie. It covers him at one stage, but ends up small enough to drape over Richard Burton's shoulders.

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Houdini picture

Continuity mistake: Just after Houdini returns to the United States from his European tour, he stages a publicity stunt. The lady in the apartment opens her window shade and sees Houdini hanging upside down, directly outside the window. When it cuts to an outside shot, he is now suspended above the roof line, where the woman would not be able to see him.

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Life with Tom picture

Continuity mistake: When Tom removes the packaging, you can see that it reads "Life with Tom by Jerry Mouse" on the front cover, but when we see Tom reading the book later on in the cartoon, the wording has disappeared.

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Hondo picture

Continuity mistake: The wagon Buffalo Baker is driving, one horse is killed and Honda cuts the leads and they take off again. In final scene his wagon has 4 horses again.

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Bully for Bugs picture

Continuity mistake: When Bugs bends Toro's horns on the bull shield, the horns change position between shots.

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Robot Rabbit picture

Continuity mistake: Before Elmer runs off to fetch his gun, you can see there is a carrot near his feet on the ground. But when he returns, the carrot has gone.

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The Cruel Sea picture

Continuity mistake: In a scene supposed to be after the ship has been fitted with radar, it is shown entering harbour with the 'lantern' removed and the aerial covered, which is how it's shown before the ship has the radar fitted.

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Plop Goes the Weasel picture

Continuity mistake: When Foghorn Leghorn lifts the wired fence with his foot to let one of the chicks out, you can see there some chicks by his foot when he lowers the fence down, but in the next shot the chicks have disappeared.

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Much Ado About Nutting picture

Continuity mistake: When the squirrel attempts to cut the coconut with the saw, the saw's teeth break off and fall around the coconut. But when the squirrel returns with an axe, the pieces of teeth have changed position.

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Hare Trimmed picture

Continuity mistake: When Bugs drops the safe on Sam, you can see "Acme Safe Co." written on the top of it, but when Bugs opens the safe in the next shot, the words have disappeared.

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House of Wax picture

Continuity mistake: When Sally is disturbed by the resemblance of her friend, who was recently killed and then her body was stolen from the morgue, to the wax figure of Joan of Arc, she reaches up to touch the left side of the face, but when Vincent Price turns up, she is touching the right side of her face.

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Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2th Century picture

Continuity mistake: When Daffy sends the Martian an ultimatum, the ultimatum goes back into a bullet and lands on the floor of the Martian's spaceship. But when Daffy sends him an ultimatum saying "Ouch!" there is no sign of the bullet.

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Don't Give Up the Sheep picture

Continuity mistake: When Fred (Ralph Wolf in disguise) says "Hello" to Sam at the end of the short, you can see that there is a card in both the top and bottom holes in the "In" section of the punch clock. But when Sam begins spanking Ralph, the bottom card of the "In" section has moved to the bottom hole of the "Out" section.

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Wild Over You picture

Continuity mistake: When we see the park where the wild cat is hiding, there is a sign saying "No Le Pate de Fois Grass", but when we see the sign in the next shot, the "Le" has disappeared.

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Ant Pasted picture

Continuity mistake: When Elmer puts a firecracker down an anthill, the cracker explodes and several ants are blown out of the other anthills, all stunned. But when Elmer smiles and creeps away in the next shot, the ants are nowhere to be seen.

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The Simple Things picture

Continuity mistake: When Pluto has a mussel stuck in his mouth, Mickey is eating his sandwich and you can see that the sandwich has a bite mark on it. When Mickey says "OK!" the bite mark has gone.

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How to Marry a Millionaire picture

Continuity mistake: While Schatze's getting ready for her wedding, when Pola comes in she tries on the fur stole and instead of putting the fur stole back on the bed it slips onto the floor, but when Loco walks in with Eben the fur stole is lying on the bed beside the fur coat, though it wasn't touched. Pola's fur wrap near the flowers has also moved. (01:21:55)

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Punch Trunk picture

Continuity mistake: When the elephant walks up to the bowl of clothes pegs, the number of pegs in the bowl changes between shots.

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