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Continuity mistake: After her display of gymnastic (and underwear), Ellen receives the charity donation from the party guest. She says "Toys for Tots thanks you for your generosity"; at the first word she is switching hand position from the top corner of the check to the bottom corner. But at the cut, she is holding it again by the top corner. (00:03:00)

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Continuity mistake: Ellie is about to tell Jake the truth about her, but he is called away to help fix some part of the stage. The woman with the cap is screwing the mock house roughly at the point where Jake is holding the column. At the cut her hand moved at the top of the archway. (01:13:00)

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Continuity mistake: Gray blurts out at the bar Ellen's real name. Jake realises who she is, and there's a reaction shot of Gray realizing he messed up. The olive stick in his martini is in a different position than in the rest of the scene, so is the level of the drink. (01:20:05)

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28th Dec 2019

The Brass Bottle (1964)

Continuity mistake: Riding with the mule in the passenger seat, Harold finds himself unable to control his car. Driving the wrong way, he instinctively crosses his arms as a car nearly crashes against him. In the next shot he has just one arm raised and the other already controls the steering wheel. (01:08:05)

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28th Dec 2019

The Brass Bottle (1964)

Continuity mistake: Fakrash makes the two chests of money and jewelry disappear and is quite sad at his inability to please his Master. Harold puts his hands on Burl Ives' considerable girth saying "That's not true, Mr. Fakrash." In the next shot, his hands are on Ives' arms. (00:37:25)

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28th Dec 2019

The Brass Bottle (1964)

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Continuity mistake: In the part of the crazy car ride when the other vehicles start going in reverse instead of colliding head-on with Harold, he has his arm across the face in the front view, but in the reverse shot just the hand is raised. (01:08:40)

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28th Dec 2019

The Brass Bottle (1964)

Continuity mistake: Everyone sits down on the pillows for dinner. Harold's future father in-law grumbles about his sacroiliac pain, and his wife brushes him off saying "Oh Anthony, your back hasn't bothered you in years." Her purse is in a different position in her lap between shots. (00:44:20)

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28th Dec 2019

The Brass Bottle (1964)

Continuity mistake: After the buffet with lamb eyes, an odalisque appears and does a dance number. She approaches the dinner party; Sylvia in the wide shots is nervously touching her necklace, but in the closer views her hands are both on the pillow. (00:47:25)

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28th Dec 2019

The Brass Bottle (1964)

Continuity mistake: During the 'simple dinner', the second time that the slaves get on their knees praising Fakrash's name, the seneschal claps his hands to shut them up starting from a position with his hands joined, but the hands were parted in the previous shot. (00:43:30)

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28th Dec 2019

The Brass Bottle (1964)

Continuity mistake: Harold pitches to the mule a certainly very reasonable idea such as having plastic surgery. In the earlier part of the scene Tony Randall was leaning against the car window, but not in that shot. However, at the cut, there he is, again leaning to the window. (01:12:45)

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28th Dec 2019

The Brass Bottle (1964)

Continuity mistake: At the hearing, Fakrash starts flying around the room (with a terrible special effect). The men at the prosecution table lean forward to look at what is happening; their arm position changes between shots. (01:23:15)

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28th Dec 2019

The Brass Bottle (1964)

Continuity mistake: The protagonist gets home with the titular object. Seymour is finishing the sculpture; he casts no particular shadow on the wall behind him, but as soon as the shot changes, his silhouette is projected right on the wall. (00:06:40)

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28th Dec 2019

The Brass Bottle (1964)

Continuity mistake: Female servants approach the 'table' where the protagonist is having dinner with in-laws and fiancee and sprinkle them with myrrh and frankincense. Continuity mistakes happen at every cut regarding the position of Harold's hands in his lap. (00:45:20)

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28th Dec 2019

The Brass Bottle (1964)

Continuity mistake: Harold is holding in his arms the bottle still wrapped as he tells his roomies about the wedding being postponed. In the different shots, the bottle is turned differently - just look at the position of the ribbon. (00:07:35)

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28th Dec 2019

The Brass Bottle (1964)

Continuity mistake: During the scene in front of the restaurant (after the VW van takes Harold's parking spot) every cut brings continuity errors in the position of the passersby. The natural light also changes as you can see by the shadow on the sidewalk. (00:27:10)

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28th Dec 2019

The Brass Bottle (1964)

Continuity mistake: After Fakrash proposes the partnership in real estates, Harold walks back to the car. Time has passed, because all of a sudden, Fakrash's head does not cast a shadow on his chest like in previous shots. (01:12:25)

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Continuity mistake: After receiving instructions from Mercusio (when Cross is told to go to the Watergate), agent Ollie McArthur says "okay people, let's move." He says that across two shots; in the first, Monica Potter is distinctly shifting her eyes from looking in front of her to looking to her right, but in the second she is looking straight again, making the lack of continuity quite obvious over such a small detail. (01:03:50)

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Continuity mistake: Jezzie's computer that she used for all her operations has the screen seemingly turned on, always of a bright blue even before Cross actually switches it on. When he looks at the password screen with just 'Administrator' as username, the screen is black, like it is not in any other part of the scene. (01:27:40)

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Continuity mistake: Cross just boarded the train. At the entrance, featured prominently, there's a woman with headphones. To the other side, there's an old pudgy man with a beret, and a black guy in a dark brown suit, looking all serious. Morgan Freeman is between these two guys, but in the POV that follows they are both on the same side, in front of him. (01:09:25)

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Continuity mistake: Dimitri calls Jezzie from the gates of the embassy, and she leaves Cross and the guy talking in Russian to go to him. During the transition, the soldier moving across the gates walks through the same steps he already walked, and the bodyguard in a trenchcoat is in a different position. (00:59:25)

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