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19th Nov 2005

The Birds (1963)

Continuity mistake: Lydia is holding her glove in her right hand and her pocketbook in her left as she walks into Mr. Faucet's room. The pocketbook never switches hands but when she runs out, she drops both of them from her right hand. (01:00:15)

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19th Nov 2005

The Birds (1963)

Continuity mistake: As Melanie runs to Annie, the pile of papers on the left of her desk changes between shots and a blue booklet appears on top. (01:12:00)

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19th Nov 2005

The Birds (1963)

Continuity mistake: Before Melanie runs back into the school to warn them about the birds, the sun was behind the school. Now her shadow on the steps is in the wrong direction, going in front of her. (01:11:45)

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19th Nov 2005

The Birds (1963)

Continuity mistake: As Melanie walks into Annie's apartment we see the front door behind here to the left. Before the door had a shade on top of it, this door is different and doesn't have a shade or a space for it between the curtain and the window. (00:41:10)

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19th Nov 2005

The Birds (1963)

Continuity mistake: As Melanie and Mitch walk past the side of the restaurant look closely at the second and third windows from the right. Now we can see right into the place through these but after they walk into the restaurant look behind the bar all three windows have drawn blinds. (00:26:25)

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19th Nov 2005

The Birds (1963)

Continuity mistake: No one is sitting inside the window at the left of the restaurant as they walk by. In the next shot inside the restaurant there are people sitting there. (00:26:25)

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19th Nov 2005

The Birds (1963)

Continuity mistake: In the close-up shots of the party scene the grass is much greener than in the wide shots, where some brown is mixed in. (00:52:30)

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19th Nov 2005

The Birds (1963)

Continuity mistake: When the first bird perches on the monkey bars behind Melanie the sun is behind her as you can see by the long shadow she casts as she walks to the chair. In the close-up she casts a shadow in the opposite direction on the fence. (01:09:55)

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19th Nov 2005

The Birds (1963)

Continuity mistake: As they speak on Annie's front porch Melanie says, "Well, I'd better be on my way" and her left hand is at her side. In the next shot she's holding it straight out. (00:17:50)

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19th Nov 2005

The Birds (1963)

Continuity mistake: In the long shot as Lydia drives up to Mr. Faucet's farm the small structure in front of the building on the far right has four windows. As she parks the truck, we see that structure only has two windows. (00:58:45)

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19th Nov 2005

The Birds (1963)

Continuity mistake: As Annie listens to Melanie talk to Mitch, the rabbit ears on her television and the light switch to the right of it are dark. At the beginning of the scene they were lit up. (00:45:50)

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19th Nov 2005

The Birds (1963)

Continuity mistake: As Melanie drove past the propane tanks down the road from the school the sun was to her right casting a shadow to the left of the car. As the children pass the exact same spot the sun is over their left shoulders, casting a shadow in front and to the right of them. (01:13:40)

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19th Nov 2005

The Birds (1963)

Continuity mistake: After Annie pours Melanie a brandy the upper part of the wall behind her and to her right darkens considerably between shots and no lights have been touched. (00:41:40)

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19th Nov 2005

The Birds (1963)

Continuity mistake: The number of pencils in Annie's pencil holder decreases throughout this scene without being touched. (00:42:25 - 00:46:35)

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19th Nov 2005

The Birds (1963)

Continuity mistake: As Melanie and Mitch approach the restaurant there's a fence that they pass on the left before they get to the door. When we see this spot later in the movie the fence is not there. (00:26:25 - 01:26:15)

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19th Nov 2005

The Birds (1963)

Continuity mistake: The kid in the purple plaid shirt and white pants is the first down the street way in front of everybody else. But in the next two shots he's in the back of the pack looking back at the school both times. (01:13:30)

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19th Nov 2005

The Birds (1963)

Continuity mistake: When Melanie looks over at the fireplace and sees the lone bird standing there the logs are brand new and ready to be burned. When the rest of the sparrows come down the chimney the logs are burnt. (00:54:40)

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19th Nov 2005

The Birds (1963)

Continuity mistake: When Melanie runs back into the classroom Annie's hands are by her sides. In the next shot they're up higher. (01:12:00)

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19th Nov 2005

The Birds (1963)

Continuity mistake: After they talk about the apartment Melanie wants to use the phone. As she walks through the door Annie looks up at the birds flying and we see the top of her porch and a bare tree. This is wrong, as earlier in this scene when Melanie walks up to the door there are a lot of plants hanging down from the roof of the porch. (00:32:00)

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19th Nov 2005

The Birds (1963)

Continuity mistake: As Melanie picks up the phone to talk to Mitch the shadow of the cord falls on different areas of her jacket between shots. (00:45:40)

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