Best animated movie mistakes of 1955

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Lady and the Tramp picture

Continuity mistake: Lady is put in her bed and the master leaves the kitchen but he goes back in and puts a newspaper on the floor and leaves again but Lady gets out of her bed so the master comes back once more and puts her back in her bed but the newspaper on the floor has vanished.

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Pecos Pest picture

Continuity mistake: When Tom is running away from Uncle Pecos, he runs into the house and slams the door. When he slams the door, you can see the little door at the top has nothing on it, but in the next shot a handle has suddenly appeared.

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Knight-Mare Hare picture

Continuity mistake: When we first see the book that Bugs is reading at the beginning of the cartoon, there are words on the front cover and spine. In the next shot, the words have gone.

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Lighthouse Mouse picture

Continuity mistake: When Hippety Hopper breaks his crate apart on the rocks, you can see there are pieces of crate on the ground, but when we see Hippety in the next shot, the pieces have disappeared.

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Bearly Asleep picture

Continuity mistake: Park Ranger Donald is leading five bears to a cave, so they can hibernate for the winter. He finds a bear sleeping in a hammock and forces him to join the others. There should now be six bears but a seventh bear has appeared out of nowhere. Later in the cave, their number has grown to nine.

Steven Lee

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This Is a Life? picture

Continuity mistake: When the camera pans in on the audience at the start of the show, you can see that Granny is sitting next to Bugs and Daffy, but after a quick cut to Elmer, we return to Bugs and Daffy, and Granny has disappeared.

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Heir-Conditioned picture

Continuity mistake: When Elmer is picking up the money and putting into the case, the dollar note next to Sylvester changes position between shots.

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Guided Muscle picture

Other mistake: Philip De Guard is the cartoon's layout artist, yet when we see his name in the opening credits, it is spelled "Phillip" instead of the usual "Philip."

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Smarty Cat picture

Continuity mistake: When Butch and the other cats tiptoe past Spike at the start of the cartoon, you can see that Spike's bone is next to his kennel, but when Jerry is thrown out of the house by the cats before the film begins, he lands in Spike's mouth and the bone is now next to Spike.

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Ready.. Set.. Zoom! picture

Continuity mistake: When the Coyote attempts to capture the Road Runner for the first time, he is standing on a bare patch of pavement surrounded by the puddle of glue he is spreading. In the next shot, the Coyote is now standing on glue with no bare patch, and when he realises he is about to be hit by the truck, he is standing on bare pavement in middle of the glue puddle once again.

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The Hole Idea picture

Continuity mistake: When Calvin Q. Calculus has invented the portable hole, he says "Eureka!" and you can that there is a beaker on the desk, but in the next shot the beaker has disappeared.

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One Froggy Evening picture

Continuity mistake: When the agent throws the man out of the talent agency, there is a handprint on the wall to the side of the door. When the frog jumps out of the box and performs "The Michigan Rag", we cut back to the man and the handprint has disappeared.

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Pests for Guests picture

Continuity mistake: When the Gophers hear Elmer Fudd and the furniture salesman coming, they hide in the bottom drawer, but when Elmer drives home, the Gophers are now hiding in the second drawer down.

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Roman Legion-Hare picture

Continuity mistake: When Sam closes the door after escaping the lions, you can see there is nothing under his feet, but in the next shot a doormat has suddenly appeared.

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Speedy Gonzales picture

Continuity mistake: When Manuel takes off his sombrero to give to the other mice, you can see he has a straw in his hand, but when we see Manuel in the next shot, the straw is nowhere to be seen.

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Hyde and Hare picture

Continuity mistake: When Bugs Bunny sees Mr Hyde, he lets go of Hyde and you can see that he is holding an axe in his left hand. But when Hyde grabs hold of Bugs' tail when he is shouting for Dr Jekyll, the axe has gone.

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Stork Naked picture

Continuity mistake: When the stork tries to barge the door down, the front door has two panels on it. But when Daffy Duck opens the door to let the stork in, look at the door and you can see it is completely different to the one seen only a few seconds earlier.

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Designs on Jerry picture

Continuity mistake: When we see first see Jerry's mouse hole, it's in a wooden section of the attic wall to the left of the blueprint. When Tom has finished assembling his mousetrap, the mouse hole is now in a white wall on the other side of the attic.

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Rabbit Rampage picture

Continuity mistake: When Bugs is horrified to realise that he was holding a picket sign, the yellow paint on his tail disappears briefly.

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