Best movie mistakes of 1937

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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs picture Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs mistake picture

Continuity mistake: When the seven dwarves run scared down the stairs and out of the door, Dopey pulls the handle of the door from the inside until it breaks out and falls away. The next scene when the dwarf opens the door, the handle is there again. (00:33:00)

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The Good Earth picture

Continuity mistake: During the locust invasion, two of Paul Muni's men collapse and are covered in locusts. Muni picks them up, but suddenly, all of the locusts have disappeared.

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A Day at the Races picture

Continuity mistake: In the scene showing Groucho being chased across the cars as they enter the race course, in the shot from behind you see him running along the rail only to slip, the following shot is from the front and shows the same slip he's already made.

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Revealing mistake: When the piano lid smashes Cary Grant's fingers, the lid obviously stops inches above his hand, even though a drink is positioned on the piano in an attempt to hide the gap.

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A Car-Tune Portrait picture A Car-Tune Portrait mistake picture

Continuity mistake: After the hands draw the concert hall, the lion conductor walks out on stage to address the crowd. He stops in the center of the stage and turns, facing straight forward towards the camera. But then it cuts to a close up and suddenly his body is facing to the left. You can also tell by his shadow that he is suddenly much closer to the curtain behind him. (00:01:35)

Quantom X

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Continuity mistake: In a saloon, Moe and Curly are playing poker with Longhorn Pete, the proprietor. Among Curly's five cards are an ace of hearts and an ace of diamonds. Moe's cards include an ace of spades and an ace of clubs. They pass some of the cards to each other under the table in the hope that one of them will wind up with all four aces. When their cards are shown again, Curly and Moe each have an ace of spades and ace of clubs. The ace of hearts and ace of diamonds have disappeared.

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Continuity mistake: When Mickey is knocking on the door of the haunted house, the door has two bottom panels, but when the door crashes to the floor, the panels are missing.

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Way Out West picture

Continuity mistake: When Stan and Ollie arrive at Brushwood Gulch, they show Mickey Finn the deed they've got for Mary Roberts, and it has a couple of holes in it from where Stan has been keeping it in his shoe; Ollie even unfurls it to show the camera it's got holes. But in every other shot after that, whenever the deed is shown, it's got no holes in it whatsoever and is perfectly clean.

Heather Benton

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She Was an Acrobat's Daughter picture

Continuity mistake: In the theatre, a baby goose and his father are watching the show and you can see the baby goose is sitting at the far end of the row. But when the other audience members turn around to try and silence the goose, he now has two empty seats beside him.

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Continuity mistake: The entries into Quartermain's journal are supposedly covering events during 1881 and 1882. The entries consist of a day and a date, but no month. Taken in order, they cannot fit into the 1881-1882 calendar. For example, the two entries immediately before the June eclipse can only be in August 1882.

Noman

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Tim Tyler's Luck picture

Other mistake: In the opening credits the actor Everett Brown is credited as Everette Brown. (00:01:05)

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Nothing Sacred picture

Revealing mistake: A disgraced Willy Wallace is relegated to a terrible desk in the bowels of the Morning Star. Some guy puts a ladder right above him, and various pictures start falling on him, who has already had used paper cups dumped on him by his terrible coworkers. During this sequence, the cup is glued/tacked onto Fredric March's hat in close-up, standing perfectly upright as opposed to the tilt of the other camera angle.

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Continuity mistake: Helen Bartlett is on the phone with her friend Daisy, who says she can't join her but is conned into leaving her workplace by Carole Lombard faking suicide. During the scene, Una Merkel's desk is arranged differently depending on the camera angle; a closer angle has room for just the telephone, while in the wider angle she also has a notebook in front of her. (00:06:50)

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Continuity mistake: When Porky arrives home, you can see a window looking outside to the right of the front door, but when Porky shoots the man upstairs a second time, the front door now leads to a hallway with a staircase.

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Continuity mistake: Goodwill captures four of the pigs and confines them in a pillory, a wooden framework with six holes. The head of each pig is sticking through one of the holes. After Goodwill captures Petunia, Porky enters the laboratory and discovers the pillory. Five pigs are now confined, and the sixth hole has disappeared.

Steven Lee

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