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Desk Set (1957) More at IMDbPro »

• Continuity: Before Bunny Watson turns to ask Richard Sumner her question during the Christmas party, she puts the bottle on the desk, but in the next shot, she is holding it again.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the opening shot of the film, at Rockefeller Center, the shot begins at ground level and tilts up the building, but it was clearly shot from the top of the building down to ground level and then reversed because all the people on the ground are walking backwards.
  
  
• Continuity: During the question session on the roof, Bunny reaches for the roast beef sandwich, then takes off her gloves, then reaches for the sandwich again.
  
  

• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Reference librarian Miss Costello (Joan Blondell) says, in response to a question about baseball star Ty Cobb, "He played only with the Detroit Tigers for 21 years." In fact, Cobb played major league baseball for 24 years - 22 years with the Tigers and two years with the Philadelphia Athletics.
  
  
• Continuity: Mike Cutler gives Bunny Watson some flowers. As she takes them home at the end of the day, the flowers are a different color when she gets off the elevator than they were when she got on.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When EMERAC begins to print out "Curfew Must not Ring Tonight," Bunny Watson says, "That old poem has about 80 stanzas." In fact, it has 10 stanzas, of 6 lines each.
  
  
• Continuity: Mike has just been made a vice president. When he closes the door to shut out the sound of the bongo drums, the bottom map behind him briefly changes to be of South America. For the rest of the scene the map is of Central America.
  
  

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