Continuity mistake: After the stepsisters destroy Cinderella's dress and she runs away, all the rags on the floor disappear in the aerial angle. They're not offscreen: Check the pattern of the floor and the column behind. Also, the object on the table behind her disappears too.
Deliberate mistake: The first time we see the King, the bookends and books are sketchy drawings that bear no relation to the fully detailed ones that we see afterwards.
Continuity mistake: Jack tells Cinderella that there's a new guest and she picks a yellow jacket, a blue piece of fabric and a pair of shoes. In the following shot the shoes disappear from her hand, and a shot later the jacket and the fabric also vanish.
Audio problem: When Cinderella wakes up and sings she walks behind a screen singing "Tadam dam tadee" but her mouth isn't moving.
Continuity mistake: After she wakes up, Cinderella walks behind the screen and a girl-mouse commands the others to get inside a plank. The girl-mouse stands in front of the gap between two planks. A shot later she's now behind the gap.
Continuity mistake: Cinderella wakes up to the clock's chime and pushes the duvet to the foot part of the bed. In the following shot the way it's folded changes, and a shot later it's now magically covering almost all of the bed.
Answer: A cause of death was never revealed in the movie versions. In the Grimm fairy tale, the father left on a long business trip, but took ill and died during the journey.
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