Continuity mistake: After Tinker steps on Hook's map and draws an X where Peter is, the X and the ink spots on the paper disappear.
Continuity mistake: When Peter is setting sail to London, the empty dagger sheath has disappeared.
Continuity mistake: During the final fight, Peter's dagger sheath disappears after jumping and then grabbing onto the rope.
Continuity mistake: After Captain Hook tricks Peter into promising not to fly, Peter's dagger sheath disappears after being pushed off the sails.
Deliberate mistake: After Captain Hook pushes away the boat, Mr. Smee loses the oars, and in the next shot, the oars are back.
Continuity mistake: When we see Tiger Lily tied up to the anchor, the left side of the rope goes over the right side. A shot later it's the other way around.
Continuity mistake: After Peter Pan's dagger was thrown away, the dagger is back in its sheath.
Continuity mistake: After Wendy walks the plank and leaps, when we see Peter has saved her, her head is at Peter's right side as he flies off with her in his arms. But in the next shot, Wendy is being carried by Peter the opposite way, with her head now at Peter's left side. (01:07:10)
Continuity mistake: Peter Pan's dagger is usually shown with a pommel, but after being caught by Captain Hook and thrown away behind him mid-combat, the handle has a different appearance.
Answer: In the original stage play by J.M. Barrie, he was a bank clerk. I don't think what he did for work was brought up in the 1953 film.
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