Best musical movie mistakes of 1957

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Continuity mistake: When Elvis is at the pool singing "you're so square baby I don't care" watch his guitar player Scotty Moore sitting behind him. They use two camera shots for the scene. In one shot he has sunglasses on, in the other shot they are gone. This happens throughout the entire song.

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Visible crew/equipment: During the "How Long Has This Been Going On" number, Hepburn dances by a mirror - reflected in it are the camera crew, desperately trying to get out of the image.

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Continuity mistake: When the three little pigs are not impressed with the wolf's trumpet playing, you can see the pig that plays the drums has drumsticks in his hands. But when he and the other pigs throw the wolf out of the House of Straw, the drumsticks have gone.

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Continuity mistake: The character Sid Sorokin sings the song "Hey There" into a dictograph machine. He then plays it back and sings a "duet" with himself. However, the lyrics and melody at the end of the song are different from what he sang into the machine originally.

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