Best animated movie mistakes of 1959

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Sleeping Beauty picture

Factual error: Maleficent states that Princess Aurora will prick her finger on a spindle - the part of a spinning wheel that holds the bobbin. Spindles aren't sharp; what Aurora actually pricks her finger on is the distaff, which is used to hold the fiber before it is spun.

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Backwoods Bunny picture

Continuity mistake: When Elvis hands Bugs the hose, Bugs drops his carrot on the ground. Later on in the scene, the carrot disappears.

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A Witch's Tangled Hare picture

Continuity mistake: When Witch Hazel tries to attack Bugs with her meat cleaver, Bugs runs off to the castle and you can see the cleaver in the ground. But when she calls for her broomstick to come over to her, the cleaver has gone.

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A Broken Leghorn picture

Continuity mistake: When Foghorn Leghorn slips an egg into Miss Prissy's nest, you can see that there is nothing on the wall of the chicken shed, but when one the other hens says "A little baby rooster!", there are now nails on the wall.

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People Are Bunny picture

Continuity mistake: Daffy takes down a gun from the mantle, but when Daffy points it at Bugs in the next shot, you can still see the gun on the mantle.

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Wild and Woolly Hare picture

Continuity mistake: When Bugs is performing his shooting stunt in the saloon, you can see the entrance behind Sam has nothing between it. When Sam tells Bugs he's missed, we cut to Bugs who says "Wait!" and then return to Sam, and this time there are doors between the entrance.

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Tweet and Lovely picture

Continuity mistake: When Sylvester is looking through the window with his binoculars, he looks at Spike and you can see there is a bowl with a bone next to his kennel. But when Sylvester sneaks past Spike's kennel after entering the yard, the bowl has gone.

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Apes of Wrath picture

Continuity mistake: When Mama Ape takes Bugs Bunny out of his bed, Bugs is wearing a baby hat, but when Mama is holding him in the next shot, the hat has disappeared.

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The Tee Bird picture

Continuity mistake: When the judge gives Woody his money after he won the championship play-off, the notes on the top of the two left piles have nothing written on them, but when we see a close-up of Woody in the next shot, dollar symbols have appeared.

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