Continuity mistake: During the final fight, the Jolly Roger flag disappears and then reappears.
Deliberate mistake: After Captain Hook pushes away the boat, Mr. Smee loses the oars, and in the next shot, the oars are back.
Continuity mistake: When Peter is setting sail to London, the empty dagger sheath has disappeared.
Continuity mistake: During the final fight, Peter's dagger sheath disappears after jumping and then grabbing onto the rope.
Continuity mistake: After Captain Hook tricks Peter into promising not to fly, Peter's dagger sheath disappears after being pushed off the sails.
Continuity mistake: After Wendy walks the plank and leaps, when we see Peter has saved her, her head is at Peter's right side as he flies off with her in his arms. But in the next shot, Wendy is being carried by Peter the opposite way, with her head now at Peter's left side. (01:07:10)
Continuity mistake: After Peter Pan's dagger was thrown away, the dagger is back in its sheath.
Continuity mistake: Peter Pan's dagger is usually shown with a pommel, but after being caught by Captain Hook and thrown away behind him mid-combat, the handle has a different appearance.
Continuity mistake: At Hangman's tree, while the Lost Boys dance, Wendy grabs Michael's feather and tomahawk and lays them on the floor. A shot later they're nowhere to be seen.
Continuity mistake: After Tinker steps on Hook's map and draws an X where Peter is, the X and the ink spots on the paper disappear.
Continuity mistake: When Mrs. Darling is about to leave and Wendy is dozing, her pillow swaps from being opened and striped inside, to fully closed and totally white.
Continuity mistake: When Hook sits down to get a shave his chair is a couple meters away from the side of the ship. A shot later it's centimeters away.
Continuity mistake: When the bomb explodes, Wendy and the kids disappear from the side of the ship, only to reappear in the close-up.
Audio problem: When the mermaids are nagging Wendy they cry "Oh please!" "I insist!" but their mouths aren't moving.
Continuity mistake: When Michael checks who's underneath the moving tree, the tomahawk on the ground disappears between shots.
Continuity mistake: After Michael grabs the tomahawk stuck on a tree he walks to an area with grass. In the close-up he is standing on sand.
Continuity mistake: When John and the kids walk by the Native American area, in the aerial angle the Native American's footprints disappear.
Continuity mistake: When we see Tiger Lily tied up to the anchor, the left side of the rope goes over the right side. A shot later it's the other way around.
Continuity mistake: When the movie ends, Mr. And Mrs. Darling, Wendy and Nana are by the window looking at the sky. In the aerial angle they all disappear.
Continuity mistake: When the ship turns to gold and starts to fly everyone disappears.
Answer: In the original stage play by J.M. Barrie, he was a bank clerk. I don't think what he did for work was brought up in the 1953 film.
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