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Continuity mistake: After Kathy and Don find each other again, and he's trying to tell her how he feels for her, they are walking outside on a sunny day. He opens a door to go into a set, but when the camera angle changes, it appears as though they are walking from a dimly lit hallway. (00:41:30)

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Continuity mistake: During "Make 'em Laugh" the green couch moves to the right from the time he dances with the mummy to the end of the number. (00:29:10 - 00:30:30)

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Continuity mistake: During "Make 'em Laugh" Donald is hopping on one foot and falls down. The couch is behind him and he falls at an angle. The camera changes, and he's suddenly perpendicular to the couch instead of at an angle. (00:29:10)

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Continuity mistake: During "Make 'em Laugh" Donald is dancing on the green couch with the 'dummy'. When he spins around and jumps on the back of the couch, his hat changes from down low over his brow to higher on his forehead between long and close shots. (00:29:15)

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Continuity mistake: During "Make 'em Laugh" Donald gets flipped off the board, and sings on the ground. There is a man sweeping next to him. You see the broom coming in and out of frame near his feet. When the shot goes long, the sweeper is behind Donald, and no one is next to him. (00:28:15)

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Continuity mistake: As the girls are dancing at the after movie party, during one spot the streamers being thrown get tangled around their legs. Then in the next shot it's cleared itself up. (00:24:00)

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Continuity mistake: When Don jumps into Kathy's car, in the long shot, as he lands her hand is on her hat. Cut to the close up, and both her hands are on the wheel. (00:15:30)

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Continuity mistake: When Gene Kelly and Donald O'Conner stop for car trouble, a trolley goes by. After Gene gets bombarded by fans and runs away, he runs after another trolley going by and jumps on. The same people are in the trolley each time. (00:14:50)

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Visible crew/equipment: During the premiere of The Royal Rascal's when the bad guy goes over the edge of the banister, you can see a crewman's hands catching his legs. (00:11:30)

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Continuity mistake: The scene is when Doris is picking up Rock from the train station. When the shot is behind Doris's car, there is a girl in a blue dress and sweater walking in front of the car. The shot changes to in front of Doris's car, and the same girl is just shutting her car door and walking around the Doris'car. (00:25:45)

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Continuity mistake: As Rock leaves breakfast and goes up the stairs, the food on the table changes. Doris has the paper in her hands, yet the coffee cup has less coffee, the cereal bowl is 1/2 as full, and the piece of toast has disappeared from the toaster. (00:11:40)

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Continuity mistake: During breakfast, Doris' coffee cup fills itself. First it shows the coffee about 1/4 inch from the rim when she's laughing at Rock. Quick cut to Rock, and then when it comes back to Doris, the coffee is to the rim (no time to refill), and as she takes a drink it she has to be very careful not to spill as it is so full. (00:11:30)

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Continuity mistake: When Doris' robe is stuck in the door and she steps in the eggs, in the long shot the cottage cheese is to the right of the milk bottle. In the close up shot, it is on the left of the milk bottle. (00:06:35)

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Continuity mistake: When Doris goes out to get the paper and meet the milkman, in the close up shot her shadow is on the left, and the long shot her shadow is on the right. (00:04:20)

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5th Jan 2004

His Girl Friday (1940)

Continuity mistake: When Hildy returns to the press room after taking Molly Malloy out, the wide shot shows her opening the door all the way. Then the close up shows her doing this again.

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5th Jan 2004

His Girl Friday (1940)

Trivia: In the Extended Edition, when Merry and Pippin begin to grow, Merry says "But I've always been the tall one," Monahan and Boyd said in the commentary that quite often that is how the crew referred to them because they kept confusing Monahan and Boyd so they were the "tall one" and the "short one."

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Trivia: Liv Tyler had filmed several scenes of her fighting in Helm's Deep. Eventually the filmmakers decided for her character not to show up at that time, and cut and edited her scenes out. For instance, she was also pulling Gimli and Aragorn up the rope back into the fortress.

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18th Nov 2003

Holiday Inn (1942)

18th Nov 2003

Holiday Inn (1942)

Continuity mistake: After their first number, Ted and Jim are in their dressing room, Jim is buttoning his left cuff and then pulls down his right sleeve. In the next shot, he does this again.

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