Pinocchio
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Continuity mistake: When Pinocchio is locked up in the cage of Stromboli, Jiminy goes inside the cage lock, and he hangs his coat and hat on the outside of the lock. In the next shot, they have disappeared.

Hamster

Audio problem: When Honest John tells Gideon to take notes, Gideon throws his stick aside, but there is no sound of it hitting the ground.

Continuity mistake: The patches on Jimminy Cricket's hat change size, color, location, etc. throughout the entire movie.

Continuity mistake: When Pinocchio becomes tangled up with the Russian marionettes, two extra marionettes appear. There were five marionettes dancing around on stage, but he becomes entangles in seven.

Hamster

Continuity mistake: As Jiminy falls down the pool pocket, he falls with a black 8-ball and a yellow 1-ball, but when it cuts the yellow 1-ball is now a red 3-ball.

Hamster

Continuity mistake: When Pinocchio is talking with Stromboli, there is a bag of gold on the tables with coins spilling out of it. But after Stromboli locks Pinocchio in the cage and comes back to the table, the bag is empty and lying on top of the coins.

Continuity mistake: When Jiminy earns his badge, in one shot it is mostly over his red ascot, but in the next it is mostly over his black jacket.

Continuity mistake: When Honest John holds his notepad in his hand, their is a hole in the thumb of his glove. Then when John gives Pinocchio his "ticket" the hole is gone.

Continuity mistake: On Pleasure Island, Lampwick uses a match to make a scratch on the Mona Lisa. The length of this scratch changes between shots.

Continuity mistake: In the scene where Pinocchio talks to Stromboli inside the wagon, many of the items on the table disappear, reappear, and change position constantly.

Audio problem: When Gepetto is fishing inside Monstro's belly, his lips do not move when he exclaims "Here's another one!" or "I got it!"

Continuity mistake: Close to the end, Pinocchio is lying unconscious on the bed. In one shot, his hand is lying entirely on one of the white patches of the blanket. In a later shot, his hand is half on a blue patch, half on a white one.

Continuity mistake: When Lampwick sprouts a tail, the patch on the seat of his trousers has stitches around it. These stitches disappear moments later.

Continuity mistake: When Pinocchio talks with Stromboli, Stromboli takes a bite from an onion and still holds the bitten onion in his hand. It cuts to a wider view and the onion has vanished.

Hamster

Continuity mistake: In the opening shot of Jiminy singing, a spotlight is focused on him, however he casts no shadow onto it. It cuts to a closeup and he suddenly does.

Hamster

Continuity mistake: When Pinocchio says he is going home, Stromboli starts laughing. Pinocchio asks if he thinks that's funny, and he replies, "Sure." In this shot, there is a gold coin on top of Stromboli's knife, but in the next shot it's gone.

Continuity mistake: When Lampwick says "Ah, you smoke like my grandmother," the white pool ball has moved to the other side of the table from where it was when Lampwick made his last shot.

Factual error: The copper pot Jiminy looks into shows his reflection at a larger size. It should be reflected at a smaller size though.

Hamster

The Blue Fairy: Prove yourself brave, truthful, and unselfish, and someday, you will be a real boy.

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Trivia: The film was a major commercial failure because it was released during the Second World War and very few people were going to the cinema.

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Question: When Pinocchio finds Geppetto inside Monstro's stomach, Geppetto has shoes and socks on. But when Pinocchio and Geppetto are escaping on the raft, he is barefoot. Where did his shoes and socks go?

Answer: It's not explained. This appears to be a plot hole or whatever happened somehow got edited out.

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