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The Kid (1921) More at IMDbPro »

• Continuity: When both the Tramp and the kid are chased by the policeman, the kid loses his cap which falls to the ground in the yard before he could enter in his home. Still, when he is seen inside, he has got his cap back upon his head.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When the Bully (Charles Reisner) "punches" the lamppost in half during the fight with the tramp, the post begins to bend itself an instant before the punch lands on it.
  
  
• Continuity: When The Tramp finds the baby while sitting in the sidewalk, he leaves his stick by his right side. After the shot of the baby's mother's letter, there is no stick by Tramp's side, and after another shot, it appears again and in a different position.
  
  

• Revealing mistakes: After the tramp chases on rooftop the two welfare workers who have captured and tormented Jackie, the scene ends with the Tramp and one of the workers fighting on the back of the workers' pickup truck. After kicking the second welfare man off the back of the pickup, the tramp makes a 'nonsensical' wave-good-bye as he and Jackie ride off to momentary safety. In reality Chaplin (also the director) is waving 'CUT' to cameraman Rollie Totheroh.
  
  
• Continuity: During the fight scene with the Bully, the unconscious police man on the ground changes position in between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: When the tramp sits on the curb, he sets down his cane, which then changes position in the next cut.
  
  
• Continuity: The brute punches through a brick wall, but the damage pattern changes in later shots.
  
  

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