Best movie continuity mistakes of 1976

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Rocky picture

Continuity mistake: When a particularly unfit Rocky runs up the steps at dawn, when he reaches the top and we go to a different shot, it's a lot lighter. When returning to the previous angle, it gets darker again.

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The Outlaw Josey Wales picture

Continuity mistake: When Josey was in the general store picking up supplies with the Indian man and women, Josey was handed a picture of Slim Fixin. If you watch carefully, he walks out with the picture. When you see Josey after he has walked out of the general store, he does not have the picture in his hand.

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Barney picture

Continuity mistake: In the marching band scene, the band casts long shadows - then NO shadows - then long shadows again (repeatedly).

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Confessions of a Driving Instructor picture

Continuity mistake: When the Lea family arrives at the rugby match, Tim parks the car in the car park. During the match you can see that the car has moved forward and is on the pavement. After the match, when Tony and Mary steal the car, it has moved back into the car park. Also, the front passenger window is open. It was shut when Tim parked the car.

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Murder By Death picture

Continuity mistake: Right at the end when the man takes his mask off, a strand of blonde hair hangs out from the back of "his" head. In the next shot the hair is dark brown.

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St. Ives picture

Continuity mistake: In the masked ball scene, St. Ives grabs a party goer and steals his mask which you then see him putting on. It is a gold mask without any markings that covers most of his face, but a few moments later when St. Ives dances with Flora, he is wearing a much smaller gold mask with black decorative markings.

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Assault on Precinct 13 picture

Continuity mistake: In the scene where Napolean has saved the girl's life in the cell blocks, they go back into the main part of the police station and Napolean holds the door to the cells closed. The first time you see him holding the door closed there are bullet holes above his head but there has been no gunfire and he does not act as if the people behind the door are shooting at him. It's not until the film cuts back to him a second time (or possibly the third) that there is gunfire on the sound track, the bullet holes are focused on and his character ducks down whilst complaining that he can't hold the door for much longer.

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Mother, Jugs & Speed picture

Continuity mistake: When Mother is pulling up to the burger joint, you see his partner with his car window open. He's even resting his arm on the door. The camera angle changes as they pull up to the drive through and you see his partner lowering his window down so they can place an order.

MCKD

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Family Plot picture

Continuity mistake: In the scene where Bruce Dern and Barbara Harris are eating hamburgers. He has two on his plate, from a back view she reaches over and takes one. He then removes the cap from the ketchup bottle. The shot switches to a view from his back and the cap is back on the ketchup. He then removes the cap again.

Randy DeShong

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Sybil picture

Continuity mistake: When the psychiatrist is holding up the horse figurine, the way she's holding it in the closeup is quite different than in the wide shot.

Krista

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The Big Bus picture

Continuity mistake: When the bus is brought out of the hangar for its maiden trip, the top of the front of the bus just clears the top of the roof. When it parks outside, the rear section has a glass roof which wouldn't clear the roof without damaging either the bus or the hangar roof.

JasonWilliams

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Stormtroopers picture

Continuity mistake: The protagonist (Renato Pozzetto) is having an argument with his superior while smoking a joint. He gets back in line after threatening him with a stone; the joint is in his mouth. Cut, and he is holding the joint in hand and putting it only then in his mouth. (00:19:00)

Sammo

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The Likely Lads picture

Continuity mistake: As Bob crashes his car into the caravan, you can see that the car is already damaged.

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Alice, Sweet Alice picture

Continuity mistake: When Brooke Shields yells "Mommy said that you had to come home right this instant", there's a long lock of hair in front of her left shoulder, which disappears at the cut. (00:06:20)

Sammo

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Two-Minute Warning picture

Continuity mistake: When the sniper starts shooting at the audience, at one point he hits a guy in the press sector. However the blood splatter at the victim's shirt appears yet before the bullet actually breaks the window.

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Never Too Young to Rock picture

Continuity mistake: When the vehicles are driving into the marquee its obvious that after each vehicle is driven into the marquee the film is stopped as the daylight changes as do the clouds.

eric 64

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