Best animated movie mistakes of 1950

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Cinderella picture

Revealing mistake: The stepmother's arm disappears for a split second when she tells her daughters that there is still a chance for them to become the princess.

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Canary Row picture

Continuity mistake: When Sylvester runs into the Broken Arms Apartment Building, you can see the front door of the entrance has nothing on it, but when Sylvester is being attacked by the guard in the next shot, there are metal bars on the door.

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Rabbit of Seville picture

Continuity mistake: After Bugs Bunny has snipped off Elmer Fudd's pants suspender buttons, you can see Elmer's gun is directly behind him. But when Elmer picks up his gun to try and shoot Bugs, the gun is now by his foot.

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Saturday Evening Puss picture

Continuity mistake: When Tom traps Jerry in the blinds, he pulls the cord and squashes Jerry. At this point, you can see Tom is holding the cord, but when we Jerry sliding down the blinds in the next shot, Tom is no longer holding the cord.

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Golden Yeggs picture

Continuity mistake: When Rocky is reading his "Life" magazine at his headquarters, the first shot shows him reading the front cover but immediately after that he is reading the magazine with the pages open.

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Home, Tweet Home picture

Continuity mistake: When we see Sylvester reading his newspaper at the start of the cartoon, you can see the front page has only one picture on the cover, but when we see a close-up of the picture in the next shot, another picture has appeared under it.

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Cue Ball Cat picture

Continuity mistake: When Tom shoots a stream of balls to flatten Jerry, the last ball in the pack is coloured purple, but when the balls rebound off the side rail, the last ball is now a green one.

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The Ducksters picture

Continuity mistake: When Porky emerges after his mauling from the gorilla, his face is covered in scratches, but when he is speaking to the Ajax Broadcasting Company on the telephone, the scratches have disappeared.

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Trailer Horn picture

Continuity mistake: Upon seeing Donald Duck's footprints in the sand, Chip walks the length of one footprint, leaving eight of his own footprints as he goes. He fetches Dale to show him Donald's footprints but when Chip reaches the footprint he walked across, his own footprints have vanished.

Steven Lee

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The Chump Champ picture

Continuity mistake: When Spike is disguised as a fortune teller, he writes on a piece of paper: "To the Judge - I cheated in every event. Signed: Droopy". When he hands the piece of paper to the judge, the "To the Judge" and "Signed" with the dotted line are missing.

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The Scarlet Pumpernickel picture

Continuity mistake: When Daffy begins reading "The Scarlet Pumpernickel" at the start of the cartoon, you can see that the script is by the wall. Later on, both Daffy and the script are in front of J.L.'s desk, and a few shots later they are near the wall again.

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Pluto's Heart Throb picture

Continuity mistake: Before Dinah the Dachshund enters her home, the door flap is open. In the next shot, it is closed.

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What's Up Doc? picture

Continuity mistake: When Bugs is sitting on the bench in Central Park with the other out of work actors, he has stubble on his chin. When Bugs accepts Elmer's role as his sidekick in his vaudeville act, the stubble has disappeared.

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Boobs in the Woods picture

Continuity mistake: When Porky is displaying the enormous fish he has caught, Daffy comes along and asks him if he has a fishing licence. The fishing line and bell vanish before the shot changes.

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Mutiny on the Bunny picture

Continuity mistake: When Sam puts his pistol against Bugs' nose, you can see there is graffiti saying "The Captain is a Shnook" behind him, but after a quick cut to Bugs, we return to Sam and the graffiti has disappeared.

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Hillbilly Hare picture

Continuity mistake: When the Martin brothers fall off the cliff at the end of the short, they have hats on their heads. But when we see them lying down in the brook, their hats are nowhere in sight.

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Big House Bunny picture

Continuity mistake: When Yosemite Sam fires Bugs from the cannon, Bugs has "3 1/2" on his prison outfit, but when Sam orders Bugs into the prison cell after recapturing him, the "3 1/2" has disappeared.

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An Egg Scramble picture

Continuity mistake: When the shopkeeper hears Prissy breaking his eggs, he is holding a pencil in his right hand, but when he turns around the pencil is nowhere to be seen.

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All a Bir-r-r-rd picture

Continuity mistake: In long shots, the train cars can be seen with the letters "S.P.Q.R." on them. In close-ups, this changes to "South East and Western."

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Texas Tom picture

Factual error: When Tom is singing "If You're Ever Down In Texas" to the cowgirl, Jerry winds the crank on the Victrola counter clockwise.

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