Best short movie mistakes of 1957

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Tabasco Road picture

Continuity mistake: During the slow-motion sequence, Speedy slams the mallet on the cat's paw and leaves the mallet on the ground when he rescues the mouse. When he puts a stick of dynamite on the cat's tongue, the mallet has gone.

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Three Little Bops picture

Continuity mistake: When the three pigs are listening to the wolf playing his trumpet in Hell, the position of the double bass behind the pig who is playing the piano changes between shots.

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Boston Quackie picture

Continuity mistake: After the waiter has delivered tea to Quackie and the mysterious man, you can see the wall outside the carriage is coloured pink. But when we see a close-up of someone putting the ingredients of a pill inside a cup, the wall is now coloured brown.

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Ali Baba Bunny picture

Continuity mistake: When we see Bugs at Pismo Beach at the end of the cartoon, you can see next to the burrow trail in the sand there is a bucket and there are clams next to his blanket. When Daffy emerges from the burrow after Bugs discovers a pearl, a bottle of drink has appeared and the clams have disappeared.

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Tom's Photo Finish picture

Continuity mistake: When Tom is placing a chicken under Spike's arm, Jerry takes a photo and you can see a trail of fake paw marks. When Jerry emerges from the dark room with copies of the photo, he takes one copy from the pile and has a look at it, but the picture shows no paw marks at all.

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Piker's Peak picture

Continuity mistake: When Yosemite Sam says "I dares" to Bugs, you can see there is nothing behind Bugs, but in the next shot he is standing in front of a mountain.

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Cheese It, the Cat! picture

Continuity mistake: When Ralph is walking up the steps to his apartment, he has a present in his right hand. The present disappears when he goes through the doors, but re-appears when he enters the kitchen.

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What's Opera, Doc? picture

Continuity mistake: When Elmer is stabbing Bugs' hole with his spear, there are rabbit tracks around the hole. But when Elmer says "I'm going to kill the wabbit!" the rabbit tracks have disappeared.

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Show Biz Bugs picture

Continuity mistake: When Daffy arrives at the theatre, there is a billboard behind him saying "Bijou Presents on Stage Tonight." But he points to the marquee in the next shot, the words have disappeared.

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Bedevilled Rabbit picture

Continuity mistake: When Bugs is trussed like a roast pig, the Tasmanian Devil puts salt and pepper on him and he leaves the salt shaker on the tree stump next to Bugs. But when the Devil unties Bugs later on, the salt shaker has disappeared.

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Ducking the Devil picture

Continuity mistake: When the Tasmanian Devil passes by the hamburger stall, you can see there is nothing next to the radio on the counter, but when we see a close-up of the radio in the next shot, there is now a mustard pot and a bottle next to it.

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Birds Anonymous picture

Continuity mistake: When Sylvester is unable to sleep at night, the camera pans in on his eyes and you can see that he has his head on the pillow when this happens, but in the next shot he is lying flat out on the bed.

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