Best short movie mistakes of 1961

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Continuity mistake: In a close-up of the Grenade of Succulent Pig that Yeggs Benedict serves Inspector Willoughby, there are salad vegetables under the pig's mouth, but when Willoughby takes away the trolley after Benedict swallows the hand grenade, the vegetables have disappeared.

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Continuity mistake: When Sylvester sees the Daily Bugle newspaper, the front cover headline reads "Police Hunt The Cat." You can see the words THE CAT have nothing around them, but when we see a close-up of the newspaper in the next shot, inverted commas have suddenly appeared.

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Continuity mistake: When the Coyote tests his dart bomb, he lights it with a match in his left hand. But when he throws the dart bomb in the next shot, the match that was in his hand has gone.

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Continuity mistake: When Sylvester and the dog realise their legs have been connected by a pipe in the junkyard, the position of their feet changes between shots.

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Continuity mistake: When Sylvester has caught all of Speedy's friends, he puts them in the bottle and he is holding the flute in his hand. But when see Sylvester a little later on, the flute has gone, and after Speedy has rescued one of his friends, Sylvester has the flute again.

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