Best short 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 the episode starts, Lulu is snoring in bed. The purple head board of her bed is in the light in such a way that it is diagonally lit up from the top left to bottom right. When the angle changes as she gets up, the lighting has flipped so the bottom part is lit rather than the top. There is also a window that suddenly appears in the wall by her bed that was not there in the previous shot. (00:01:05)

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Continuity mistake: When Jerry opens the door of the refrigerator, there is a piece of corn on the cob on a plate and next to it is a bowl of eggs. In the next shot, the eggs have become fruit.

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Continuity mistake: When Bugs Bunny crosses the finish line, you can see there is only grass next to the road. But in the next shot, kerbing appears out of nowhere.

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Continuity mistake: When Butch points his pistol at Tom, you can see that the handle has nothing written on it, but in the next shot the words "Ajax" have appeared.

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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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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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Continuity mistake: At the start of the cartoon, you can see the bell is at the far end of the reception desk, but when the businessman goes to punch Elmer after being woken up by Daffy laughing, the bell is now positioned further up the desk.

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Continuity mistake: When Elmer Fudd goes red in the face when he is with Bugs Bunny in the boat, the water that was coming out of the "Tunnel of Love" only a few seconds earlier has completely disappeared.

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Continuity mistake: When we see Pluto's kennel at the start of the cartoon, there are initially three bricks on the left hand side of the entrance, but in the next shot there are now four.

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Continuity mistake: When the mouse lands in the lion's stomach, he falls between two bones. In the next shot, the bones are now in front of the mouse.

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Continuity mistake: When Mickey Mouse is in the bathroom, he tells Pluto to put his shoes on the bed. But when Pluto comes out of the closet with Mickey's shirt and trousers, he slides under the bed and the shoes are nowhere to be seen.

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Continuity mistake: Throughout the cartoon, look out for the swing inside Tweety's cage. In some shots, it is in the cage, in others, it isn't.

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Continuity mistake: When Tom eats the girl cat's hot dog sausage, the girl cat is holding an empty bottle in her left hand. In the next shot, the bottle has disappeared.

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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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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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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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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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Continuity mistake: When Humphrey Bogart comes into the kitchen after being hit in the face by a coconut custard pie, the number of cream spots on his dinner jacket changes between shots.

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