Best animated movie continuity mistakes of 1947

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A Bout with a Trout picture A Bout with a Trout mistake picture

Continuity mistake: As Lulu is racing up to the school, you see the brick base of the school house and that the bricks are a dark red color. It then cuts to a closer angle as she is about to pull her fishing pole out of the steps and suddenly the bricks are now a light grey. Also in the same shots, you see first that the tree's shadow is lay across the walkway in front of the steps. But in the close up the shadow is nowhere to be seen. (00:01:55)

Quantom X

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Part Time Pal picture

Continuity mistake: After Tom is sobered up by water, you can see behind him there is a bottle of seltzer in the refrigerator, but when Jerry comes along with a chicken drumstick in the next shot, the bottle has disappeared.

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The Gay Anties picture

Continuity mistake: When we see a man and woman sitting by a lake, the plate of pancakes on the picnic blanket moves from the left to the right between shots.

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Mickey's Delayed Date picture

Continuity mistake: When Minnie Mouse is in the telephone box at the start of the cartoon, the coin slot at the top of the box has two holes on it, but when Minnie speaks to Mickey Mouse later on, there are now three.

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Continuity mistake: When Daffy disturbs the man by hitting the door on his room with a hammer, the man leaves and you can see that Daffy puts one of the fingers of his right hand on his beak. When we see the man going down the lift in the next shot, Daffy no longer has his finger on his beak.

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Tweetie Pie picture

Continuity mistake: When Thomas uses a fishing rod to hoist himself up to Tweety's cage, you can see that Tweety is resting himself with his arm on the swing. But when we see Tweety in the next shot, his arm is on his chest.

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Pluto's Blue Note picture

Continuity mistake: When Pluto is by the radio in the music shop, there is a record player behind him which has three buttons on the side, but in the next shot the buttons have moved a few inches to the right.

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Slap Happy Lion picture

Continuity mistake: When the mouse pulls the lion's tail in the jungle, there is a tree in the background. When the camera closes in on the mouse in the next shot, the tree has gone, and in the shot after that, it is back again.

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Mouse picture

Continuity mistake: When Jerry first becomes buff after drinking some of the milk and starts approaching Tom to beat him up, Tom sees a book and grabs it then hits Jerry. Before Tom grabs the book, it's yellow. When he grabs it, it's green.

Shaheed Simon

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King-Size Canary picture

Continuity mistake: When the cat places the tiny canary on to the plate, the salt and pepper pots on the table change positions between shots, and the cabinets in the background disappear. He also has a knife and fork in his hands, but after the canary says he's been sick, we return to the cat and the knife and fork have disappeared.

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Scent-imental Over You picture

Continuity mistake: When the dogs run away from the Mexican hairless dog after thinking she's a skunk, the Mexican dog's ears are pointing up but in the next shot they are pointing down.

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Cat Fishin' picture

Continuity mistake: When Tom is tip-toeing past the gate at the start of the cartoon, Spike is sleeping and you can see there is nothing around his neck, but in the next shot a dog collar has suddenly appeared.

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Salt Water Tabby picture

Continuity mistake: When Tom realises he is drinking sea water in the bucket Jerry gave him, he drops the bucket on the towel, but when he spits the water in the girl cat's face, the bucket is nowhere to be seen.

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Rabbit Transit picture

Continuity mistake: When Bugs is reading the book of Fables at the beginning of the cartoon, he turns the pages backwards.

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The Cat Concerto picture

Continuity mistake: When Jerry replaces two keys on the piano with a mousetrap, Tom gets his finger caught and there is a catch lever at the bottom of the trap. But in the next shot when Tom pulls up the mousetrap and his finger expands, the catch lever has disappeared.

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Easter Yeggs picture

Continuity mistake: When Bugs Bunny is being spun around by the little kid at the Dead End Kid's house, the kid stops and you can see there is a picture behind Bugs, but when Bugs says "How did I get into this mess?" in the next shot, the picture has disappeared.

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Fun & Fancy Free picture

Continuity mistake: Bongo the bear, riding in a car of the circus train, looks out the window. There are four vertical bars on the window - but when seen from outside the train, it has six bars.

Steven Lee

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Slick Hare picture

Continuity mistake: When Humphrey Bogart tells Elmer he has five minutes to bring him his rabbit, his face and dinner jacket have pieces of cream on them. But after a quick cut to a clock, we return to the two and Bogart's face and jacket are now completely clean.

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A Mouse in the House picture

Continuity mistake: When Jerry rings the gong to tell Tom and Butch to stop fighting, Tom goes back to his seat by the table. When he sits down, the vase on the table next to him changes colour from pink to blue between shots.

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The Invisible Mouse picture

Continuity mistake: When Tom is about to drop the iron on Jerry, he is holding some cheese on a piece of string in his left hand. When the iron drops on Tom's foot, he is no longer holding the string.

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