Continuity mistake: At all times, the enchanted rose is on a smooth marble table, except for when the Beast roars with pain after Gaston shoots him with an arrow. In this shot the table is wooden.
Continuity mistake: Just after the Beast tears the painting, look carefully out the window and you'll see a carving of a person with his mouth open on the balcony. Then when the shot zooms out of the castle, this carving is gone.
Continuity mistake: At the start of the song "Kill the Beast", the mirror keeps coming closer and further away from the buckle on Gaston's belt.
Continuity mistake: Belle takes a blue book from the library, but in the shot where Gaston sings "I'm making plans to woo and marry Belle" the book is now brown.
Continuity mistake: During 'Belle', we see Belle sit beside the fountain in an overhead shot, and there is a woman washing a white sheet in the water, with nothing beside her. Then it cuts to a closer view of Belle and you can now see a blue basket of white sheets on the floor beside the washing woman. (00:05:00)
Continuity mistake: As Belle is walking through the bustling market whilst reading her book, and Gaston is following her, and we hear the lines "Good Day" "Bonjour" "You call this bacon" "What lovely grapes", Belle has no basket hanging from either arm, clearly visible in a behind shot of her walking. It then returns in the beautiful closeup, when the camera pans around with her and she sings, with outstreched arms, "There must be more than this provincial life." (00:07:30)
Continuity mistake: When Belle is reading her book inside, there is a black teapot over a plate on one of the shelves. Moments later, the plate is to the teapot's side.
Continuity mistake: When Maurice enters the castle, the front doors have four planks each. For the rest of the film, they have five planks each.
Continuity mistake: In the slightly changed version with the song 'Human Again' added, when Cogworth, Mrs. Potts, Chip etc. are talking about there being "Something there that wasn't there before...", just after the "Something There" song, In this scene Chip's chip is in the left side of his cup. It is meant to be in the right. (00:53:35)
Continuity mistake: During the song "Gaston", in the shot where Gaston leaps into the wrestling match, the eagle and warthog head decorations disappear from the wall. (00:28:01)
Continuity mistake: After the Beast is stabbed, and is on the floor dying, Belle is at his side comforting him. In one shot her hand is stroking the left side of his face. It cuts and suddenly her hand is on the right side of his face. Then a few shots later, she puts her left hand on the right side of his face, but when the shot changes her hand is back to her side. (01:16:40)
Continuity mistake: The width of the grey rings on Maurice's lantern changes in the scene where he is lost in the forest with Phillipe.
Continuity mistake: When Belle is reading her book by the table, a shelf over the fireplace is visible below another shelf to the left of it. Moments later, after Gaston has entered and Belle asks "What do you know about my dreams?" this shelf is above the shelf to the left of it.
Continuity mistake: Near the end, as the objects arrive and are watching as Belle helps Beast lie down, the rose stem is shaped as a question mark. A few seconds later, viewed from the same direction, when the last petal falls the rose stem is now shaped as a reversed question mark. (01:14:40)
Continuity mistake: After Belle sees the painting in the West Wing, there is a shot of the table where the enchanted rose is. In this shot, the magic mirror is not on the table. In the next shot, it is. Then when the Beast yells "Get out." it is gone again.
Continuity mistake: In the newer version of the film, there has been a new song called "Human Again" added. When the little dog-like footrest runs across the hallway, chasing the cat-like cushion, he leaves black footprints all over the floor, and then he skids to a halt, leaving circular swerve marks over part of the floor. However when it cuts to an overhead shot, the line of footprints along the floor runs much shorter and there are now more sets of swerve marks. (00:57:25)
Other mistake: In the dance scene, when Mrs. Potts says "true as it can be", in one frame her eyes turn black and then turn blue again. (01:00:25)
Continuity mistake: During the film's introduction, as the camera pans away from the castle during the storm, there is a crack of thunder and a lightning flash. As the lightning strikes you can see a black branch growing on the side of the castle/cliff disappears after the flash of lighting. The animators forgot to draw it, so it just vanishes. (00:02:25)
Continuity mistake: When Belle finds Maurice locked in the dungeons, the bars change from black to brown in different shots.
Continuity mistake: When Belle comes to the West Wing, she approaches a cracked up mirror. Then in the shot where she is shown right in front of the mirror, the crack on the top right is much wider, and many cracks are differed etc.
Answer: The servants in the castle are transformed into enchanted objects because of the spell, but there are still plenty of other objects in the castle which were not originally people.
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