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• Crew or equipment visible: The camera crew's shadow can be seen as Mose, Trixie and Imogene leave the circus tent.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: As Mose and Addie are escaping the sheriff, the camera shadow is visible as the car careers toward it.
  
  
• Anachronisms: During the final scene when Mose and Addie are driving off down a long dirt road, there's a clearly visible contrail from a high altitude plane across the sky in the distance. The film was set in the early-1930s when high altitude flights were far from commonplace.
  
  

• Continuity: Addie's Nehi soft drink bottle rotates numerous times between shots without her handling it in the restaurant scene where she "wants her money".
  
  
• Boom mic visible: Just before Mose takes Addie to the store for a hair ribbon, Mose and Addie are in a hotel room. As Mose passes by a small wall mirror you can see the shadow of a boom mike and an arm holding it.
  
  
• Continuity: The straw in the "Nehi and Coney Island" scene moves several positions during the scene. First the straw is straight and sticking out above the rim of the bottle then it's submerged then straight and above again and then leaning to the left and then back to straight again.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Addie and Mose are escaping from jail, you can see the reflection of the crews legs in the car door after Addie closes it.
  
  
• Anachronisms: Fibber McGee's famous "closet gag", so anticipated by Addie while listening to the radio, didn't start until 1940.
  
  
• Anachronisms: When Addie is listening to Jack Benny on the radio, Benny can be heard referencing his famous feud (it was a fake feud) with Fred Allen. This film takes place in 1935 but the "feud" did not start until 1937.
  
  
• Continuity: Addie is inconsistent in the direction in which she rotates her hand when turning off her radio, and more often than not she rotates it clockwise (usually this would be "on") in order to turn it off.
  
  
• Anachronisms: The Goodyear sign overhead the store porch in the later part of the movie displays their modern-letter logo, not the 1930s version.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: On several occasions throughout the picture, autos can be seen speeding away, with tires screeching as though on asphalt, even though the vehicles are almost always on dirt roads.
  
  
• Errors in geography: When Mose and Addy are agreeing to meet after they arrive in St. Joseph, he tells her to meet him on the 'Corner of East Wearing and Burlington.' There is no Wearing, (east or west) or Burlington in St. Joseph, MO. The streets in downtown St. Joseph, MO are numbered and/or named after the children of St. Joseph's founder, Joseph Robidoux.
  
  
• Continuity: The Sheriff leaves Addy and Mose in his office to go get a cup of coffee at around 5 a.m., but when they run out shortly afterward, it's in clearly much later in day.
  
  
• Continuity: When Addie sets up Trixie for cheating on Mose at the hotel, Addie leaves Trixie's room 235 and returns to her room. The room number on Addie's door is also 235.
  
  
• Anachronisms: In the scene with the $20 bill "gift" from Addie's "aunt", the $20 bill Moses gives to the cashier is vintage. The $5 bill Addies gives to the cashier is modern.
  
  

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