Best movie continuity mistakes of 1964

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First Men In The Moon picture

Continuity mistake: Watch carefully as Bedford falls through the crystal prism into the underground city. On the surface he has his helmet on but in the very next shot, as he plummets down, he has no helmet. He explains that it must have 'fallen off' but you do not ever see it doing so. As the helmet would have to be twisted to be released, and no such action took place, it cannot have come loose.

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The Train picture

Continuity mistake: In the train yard scene when Le Biche and Colonel Von Windheim are watching for the trains to switch to the right tracks a pipe is tossed onto a chair and tobacco spills out, but when the camera is panned away and comes back the tobacco is nowhere to be seen.

john lancaster

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Father Came Too! picture

Continuity mistake: When the fire engine leaves the Pilsbury Pageant, you can see that there is a blue mattress and a pink blanket on the back of it, but after running over the puddle and covering Mr Chipfield in mud, we cut back to the fire engine and the pink blanket has disappeared.

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Kissin' Cousins picture

Continuity mistake: When the initial site team comes to the Tatum's, the second jeep in the convoy has the same supposedly unique serial number as the one the general arrives in a week later.

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The Yellow Rolls-Royce picture

Continuity mistake: When Shirley Maclaine goes swimming in the blue lagoon, her hair is all wet before she enters the cave, but once in the cave her hair is only wet on the ends.

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Continuity mistake: When the protagonist of the first episode is shown, he's on the phone talking to his lover, alone in the middle of a room. The cable of his phone though comes always from the same direction even when supposedly he is in different, opposite, spots inside the same room. (00:02:50)

Sammo

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The Night of the Iguana picture The Night of the Iguana mistake picture

Continuity mistake: After the opening credits, when it cuts to the overhead shot of Shannon sitting on the ground, he has a newspaper covering his head with its front page facing up. In the next shot, the newspaper over Shannon's head has a different front page. (00:06:00)

Super Grover

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Lilith picture

Continuity mistake: When Peter Fonda is hanging from a cliff with both hands over a waterfall, he is wearing his glasses. There is a cut to a shot of him not wearing glasses. When the movie cuts back to him shortly afterwards, he is wearing his glasses again. (00:32:10)

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Fail-Safe picture

Continuity mistake: There is only one bomber left in the air. Yet the SAC command center display shows three bombers. (01:37:30)

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Robin and the 7 Hoods picture

Continuity mistake: When Sammy Davis Jr. is shooting up the casino, the glass rectangles for the lights on either side of all the wine bottles have machine gun bullet holes in all of them before he shoots.

Liz A Blue

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Go Kart Go picture

Continuity mistake: When the gang make a second visit to the waste ground to test the go kart's new engine, Patchy is wearing a light coloured skirt, a button through front jumper and shoes. She is also carrying a small bag. In the next shot she is wearing a different skirt with pockets on the front, a different jumper with no buttons on and boots, and the bag she was carrying has also gone. In the last shot of this scene she is back to the clothes she was wearing at the start. (00:19:35 - 00:21:40)

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The Long Ships picture

Continuity mistake: When the "funeral ship" is beached, its clipper bow is revealed, yet when Orm and Rolfe are in the forepeak with the king's daughter there is an abundance of room, including eight or more feet of headroom.

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Rio Conchos picture

Continuity mistake: The three enter a small cantina and start a fight and fire. The place is huge on the inside, with stairs to a second floor. From the outside it's just a small shack.

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False Hare picture

Continuity mistake: When the Big Bad Wolf has finished hammering in the sign at the beginning of the cartoon, he is holding a hammer in his right hand. When he tells his nephew to put their rabbit outfits on, he holds up his right hand but the hammer he was holding a few seconds ago has disappeared.

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The Brass Bottle picture

Continuity mistake: A line of elephants crossing the street cuts short the police chase. At the cut, the passersby in the street change entirely. (00:25:25)

Sammo

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Pancho's Hideaway picture

Continuity mistake: When we see a close-up of the meter, there is a box saying "10 Centavos for One Hour." The words were not in the box in the previous shot.

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Ensign Pulver picture

Continuity mistake: When Bruno goes to the Captain, to ask for leave so he can go to his daughter's funeral, he places his cap on the desk in front of him. It slips to the floor, but a minute later his cap is magically back on the desk.

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The Strangler picture

Continuity mistake: The right arm of the broken doll on the floor of Clara's apartment changes from up to down after Leo strangles Clara.

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The Iceman Ducketh picture

Continuity mistake: When Daffy is clawed by the bear, he loses his hat in the process. But when we Daffy running in the next shot, the hat is back on his head again.

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Fantomas picture

Continuity mistake: When the clerk looks in close-up at the bank cheque written in disappearing ink by Fantomas, the background has nothing to do with the desk, and the distance is all wrong as well. (00:03:10)

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