Visible crew/equipment: In the final musical number "Strictly off the Record", you can clearly see the shadow of the microphone boom during part of the number.

Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
1 visible crew/equipment mistake
Directed by: Michael Curtiz
Starring: James Cagney, Walter Huston, Joan Leslie, Richard Whorf
Visible crew/equipment: In the final musical number "Strictly off the Record", you can clearly see the shadow of the microphone boom during part of the number.
Mary: George, I didn't know you could yodel.
George M. Cohan: Learned it on the farm. Nothing but pig callin' with frost on it.
Trivia: James Cagney won his only Oscar for his performance as George M. Cohan in this movie.
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