Lady and the Tramp

Continuity mistake: At Trusty's porch, Lady lowers her head and drinks from a bowl. Just a mere frame later there's a close-up of the bowl and she is away from the bowl in a totally different position.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Jock and Lady walk to Trusty's place, in the wide angle he is nowhere to be seen, only to suddenly appear at the front porch in the close-up angle.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: After Jim puts a chair blocking the door to stop Lady from exiting the kitchen, she starts to cry. Check the pattern of the floor tiles: her position changes between shots.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: Puppy Lady runs to the stairs, leaving the blue blanket inside the basket. When Jim puts her back in the position of the blanket is different.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When puppy Lady stands on the rug demanding to go upstairs, she stands on the right side of the rug. When the shot changes she's standing on the center part.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Tramp is looking at the puppies in the pet shop window, you can see there is a bowl at the back, but when the camera angle changes in the next shot, the bowl is now at the front.

Continuity mistake: After Tramp fights off some stray dogs in a back alley, we see him standing adjacent to a wooden fence. The next angle shows him near some barrels, trash and wagon wheels instead of a fence.

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Continuity mistake: When Darling is busy knitting something for the baby, her ball of pink yarn falls to the floor. The length of string she was using is taut at first, but once the shot changes a significant amount of slack appears on her lap. (00:21:30)

ryguy_1983

Continuity mistake: After Jock and Trusty stop the pound carriage in its tracks, an oncoming taxi illuminates the back where Tramp is locked up. Here we can see the door's cage has no broken metal wires, but two shots later where Lady walks up to it, a couple of its wires are suddenly sheared apart. (01:12:00)

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Continuity mistake: When Lady and Tramp's puppies are waiting for Trusty to say something about Old Reliable, the gifts beneath the Christmas tree rearrange themselves. Watch how different they look in the closing shot from inside the house before the movie ends. (01:15:00)

ryguy_1983

Lady and the Tramp mistake picture

Continuity mistake: When Jim Dear is taking the family photo, the distance between the table and the cushion on the left and where Lady and the puppies stand suddenly decreases between instant cuts. Note the decorations on the rug.

Sacha

Lady and the Tramp mistake picture

Continuity mistake: When the puppies are playing with Jock, the drumsticks and toy soldier disappear and reappear randomly between shots.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: The size and position of the hole in the newspaper changes between shots. Note its distance to the upper part of the paper.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When the movie ends and Jim opens the door, the pattern of the stained glass windows on the sides are completely different to that in the final front shot of the house.

Sacha

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.

More mistakes in Lady and the Tramp

Lady: ...But when she put that horrible muzzle on me.
Tramp: Say no more, I get the whole picture. Aunts, cats, muzzles... Well, that what comes of tying yourself down to one family.
Lady: Haven't you a family?
Tramp: One for every day of the week. The point is, none of them have me.

More quotes from Lady and the Tramp

Trivia: One of the filmmakers suggested introducing a newborn baby in the story because he had just had a baby, and thought it was interesting to watch his own dog react to a new baby in the house.

More trivia for Lady and the Tramp

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