Best movie continuity mistakes of 1971

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Continuity mistake: When Gran first dangles down from the ventilation shaft, the slaver's key ring is too wide to fit through the opening. But when Jim loses his balance and Gran is jerked back into the cell, the key ring is suddenly much smaller than before.

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Continuity mistake: At the beginning, Shaft is crossing the street and a taxi jumps around between cuts. In the overhead shot, he passes the taxi and walks in front of a taxi, but in the level shot, he is in front of a brown car and giving it the finger.

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Continuity mistake: One of Mr. Browne's apples falls on the gravy when he is juggling, splashing his face and shirt. Later his shirt is spotless.

Sacha

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Continuity mistake: When we first see Jones's van, it already has the flaps for the gun ports in the side, even though the van isn't converted to an armoured vehicle until later in the film.

Richard Standing

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Continuity mistake: Donna Mills' tape gag is tight when being menaced by Jessica Walter, but when Clint finds her on the bed the gag is much looser and she can mumble.

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Continuity mistake: When the farmer threatens Henry VIII with a fork after he catches him in the barn with his daughter, you can see that Henry is holding on the fork and it is well away from his body, but in the next shot the fork is pointing near Henry's face.

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Continuity mistake: The pint of beer seems almost full during the visit to the pub, with Tim's wife. It's suddenly half empty when he drinks it, then almost full again.

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Continuity mistake: During the wedding sequence when Walter Matthau is trying to force his daughter Mimsy out of the bathroom his vest is closed with his tie inside. The next second the vest is open. Then it switches back to being closed again.

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Continuity mistake: When Frankie is eating the cake on the bus, the amount of icing around his mouth changes between shots.

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Continuity mistake: The camera pans over the porno mags Fielding will be perusing, but when he actually starts to look them over, the magazines have changed positions from the original shot of them.

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Continuity mistake: When the guard with the milk and the oranges enters Cornelius and Zira's cell, the jug is 60-70% full. As the guard says "You better drink your soup and eat the oranges...", there is less milk in it. (01:01:35)

Casual Person

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Continuity mistake: After Duke unlocks the gate, when the Mayflower moving truck is driven out of the lot there's a built-in tow hitch at the back of the truck, but when it pulls into the apartment building the tow hitch is gone - the back bumper is one solid piece.

Super Grover

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Continuity mistake: When Willard goes to confront his boss, Al Martin, about killing Socrates earlier that day, we get a good view all around Al Martin's office. There are a few rats on the desk, coffee table and a chair; but there are absolutely no rats climbing the curtains. Al Martin realises Willard is insane and they struggle briefly, whereupon a single rat leaps on Martin's arm and bites him as he screams. In that moment, seven rats suddenly appear climbing high up on the curtains behind Al Martin. The camera makes a one-second cut to Willard for his famous line, "Tear him up!" The camera immediately cuts back to Al Martin, and now all the rats have disappeared from the curtains in the background.

Charles Austin Miller

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Continuity mistake: At the end of John Pithiou's dinner speech there is a close-up on the black butler. In that close-up, the collar of his vest flutters, shaken by the fan activated by the other slaves in the background. In the previous shot he was in the same hunched over position, but the fan had no such effect - you can tell by the position of the slaves in the background that he is standing in a different spot even if he was not supposed to move. (00:20:35)

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