Best movie continuity mistakes of 1969

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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie picture

Continuity mistake: A party that is in full swing when Miss Brodie enters another room for her final confontation with Sandy has dispersed when she leaves only a few minutes later.

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Moon Zero Two picture

Continuity mistake: Inside Moon City, artificial gravity is cited to explain why everything behaves as if under a full Earth gravity. And yet, in scenes out on the untamed lunar surface, everything is still behaving as if under a full Earth gravity.

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Captain Nemo and the Underwater City picture

Continuity mistake: In the scene where the shipwreck survivors are being rescued by Captain Nemo's divers, Nanette Newman is barefoot as she is carried into the submarine. In the shot immediately following, she is being carried into the sub by a diver and she is wearing full length black boots.

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Midnight Cowboy picture

Continuity mistake: When Joe is walking in NY for the first time, his hat goes from being pushed on the back of his head to on top several times.

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The Bridge at Remagen picture

Continuity mistake: In this scene we see the General briefing his men. A map is spread out over the bonnet of a jeep. While he is studying the map and planning the next move a steaming hot cup of something is given to the General and is placed on the map for him. The General then takes it in his right hand and is about to drink it when someone speaks to him. The General replies to him and in the next wide angle shot there is no cup in his hand nor is it anywhere else.

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Marooned picture

Continuity mistake: The Russian spaceship approaches the stranded 'Ironman 1' capsule, and as it moves across and fills the screen, it blocks the bright sun directly behind it. The following shot shows it moving away from that position and the sun is now nowhere to be seen.

Kit Sullivan

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Cry Wolf picture

Continuity mistake: Mary is riding her bike towards the warehouse. She stops when she sees Tony being driven off in Stella's mini moke. While she watches them drive away, her position changes between shots from sitting in the saddle to standing next to the bike.

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Love Circle picture

Continuity mistake: At the movie party, a person pushed the waiter, squishing all the blood-colored tarts on the photos. The waiter is pressing the tray in a different position at the cut. (00:07:30)

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The Comic picture

Continuity mistake: A hospital nurse hands a cup of water to Billy Bright, so he can take some medication. In the next scene, the cup is back on the nurse's tray and Billy picks it up himself.

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Uccidete Rommel picture

Continuity mistake: The morning after the sexual assault on the colonel's wife, the protagonist watches the jeep leave for the airport without him. During the scene, the shadows on the road before the hotel change between shot and reverse. (00:34:30)

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Sisters in Leather picture

Continuity mistake: When he is blackmailed in the car at knife-point, in one shot, the steering wheel is a white Mercedes steering wheel with logo. In all the rest of the scenes it is a black American car steering wheel. (00:05:02)

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My Sister, My Love picture

Continuity mistake: When Anita Delon smells the special perfume her brother-in-law had made for Martha, Susan Strasberg's hair is on/off the side of her neck in the different shots. (00:28:20)

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Kes (1969)

Kes picture

Continuity mistake: In the football game, Brian Glover (Mr Sugden) selects Paget. The other captain selects 'Speed' as his first choice. A few minutes later Speed is berated for failing to pick up a pass from Sugden. Has he changed sides? The best player on the field, who scores Spurs' second goal, is selected almost last. (00:40:10 - 00:42:05)

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The Undefeated picture

Continuity mistake: At the end of the movie, when John Wayne followed by the harmonica player is talking to Marian McCargo, her scarf goes from left to right or right to left depending on the angle of the shot. (01:56:00)

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The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes picture

Continuity mistake: Professor Quigley shows his students a grocery list, and then demonstrates how a computer can be used to make a phone call to the grocer's and place the order by playing a recorded message. However, the grocery items named on the recording do not match the items on the list.

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The Illustrated Man picture The Illustrated Man mistake picture

Continuity mistake: When Carl lets his dog out of the bag, in the close-up there's a shadow on Rod Steiger's boot, and a shadow of something or someone standing between him and the camera: both are gone in the following shot, when the dog runs across the lawn (and 'knocks aside' the camera). (00:08:20)

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Topaz picture

Continuity mistake: At the porcelain store, after Tina drops the figure the position of the head of the man behind changes back and forth between close and wide shots.

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Hercules in New York picture

Continuity mistake: When the lady in the plane freaks out, check the position of the hands of the man sitting behind her and the papers he holds. They keep changing positions all the time.

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