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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)

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• Crew or equipment visible: At the beginning of the movie, when Jekyll is putting on his cape in the "mirror", the reflection of a crewmember can be seen flitting across his stomach in the glass.
  
  
• Continuity: During Hyde's first visit to the Variety Music Hall, he reaches over the railing to trip a waiter with his cane. As he lurches around to grab his cane, he knocks his top hat off the railing and it lands on the floor next to the waiter. In the next shot, Hyde is holding onto the hat as he lashes out with his cane.
  
  
• Continuity: When Mr. Hyde and Ivy sit down in front each other in the Variety Music Hall, the objects on the wall behind them change repeatedly between shots.
  
  

• Revealing mistakes: When Dr. Jekyll is first seen in the mirror, looking directly into the camera, the effect was achieved by filming Fredric March through a hole in the wall framed to look like a mirror. But moments earlier, the trick is revealed when the butler walks past the "mirror" but has no reflection.
  
  
• Continuity: When Dr. Jekyll is making his first portion of the mixture to transform from Jekyll to Hyde the glass is very dirty and you can't see through the glass, but when he lifts the glass in front of the mirror it's perfectly clean.
  
  

• Revealing mistakes: SPOILER: As Hyde makes his escape after strangling Ivy, he jumps off a stairway landing to the one below. This action is done over two shots. At the end of the first shot, the sound of him landing on an unseen platform can be heard.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: SPOILER: At the end, when Hyde is shot, the gun is clearly aimed at the floor, nowhere near Hyde.
  
  

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