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Sleeping Beauty (1959) More at IMDbPro »

• Continuity: After King Hubert attacks King Stefan with a fish, he sheaths the fish in his belt. In the next shot of King Hubert, seconds later, the fish has vanished.
  
  
• Continuity: Flora closes the drapes to the tower bedroom Aurora sleeps in, but throughout the rest of the movie, the drapes are open.
  
  
• Continuity: At the beginning of the movie, King Hubert and young Prince Phillip approach the throne together. In the next shot, King Hubert is already in front of the throne, but Prince Phillip approaches the throne a second time.
  
  

• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Aurora is singing in the forest and when the little blue bird "kisses" her on her cheek, we hear her voice start singing a split-second before her mouth moves.
  
  
• Continuity: While preparing for Briar Rose's birthday party, the three fairies lock the front door. When Briar Rose returns from picking berries, she opens the door easily.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When the fairies change into peasant clothes, Merryweather does not speak the first half of her line, "And we can use our magic to help us."
  
  
• Continuity: The tiara given to Aurora by the three fairies has no jewels, but later on, when Maleficent shows the fallen figure of Aurora to the fairies, the tiara has rubies in it.
  
  
• Continuity: When the fairies rescue Prince Philip from Maleficent's castle and grant him the sword and shield, there is no sign of his cape anywhere nearby. When they leave the dungeon in the very next shot, Philip is suddenly wearing the cape.
  
  
• Continuity: During his revelation of the living palace he has had built for Aurora and Phillip, King Hubert places a bottle of wine at the end of the buffet table behind an elevated bowl of food, but when he and King Stephan proceed to the center to share a laugh, they separate to reveal that the bottle has disappeared from the end of the table to the center.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Aurora sees the green orb and begins walking toward it, she casts no reflection in the mirror beside her.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: At the scene where we hear someone shout about Princess Aurora's return, and fireworks are shot up to the sky, we can notice that some of the fireworks' sparks were seen in front of the castle's towers, instead of being behind the castle, as if the fireworks flew up in a low altitude. Possibly the animator did not notice this, and therefore put the cels in the wrong places.
  
  
• Continuity: The first time Fauna attempts to bake a cake (without magic), she reads from the recipe, "fold in two eggs." Later, when she enchants the cake ingredients and tells them to follow the recipe, three eggs jump into the batter.
  
  
• Anachronisms: At one point in the movie, we hear one of the characters announce that it is the 14th century. At a later point, we see fireworks being set off. Fireworks were not used for entertainment until the 16th century.
  
  
• Continuity: When the fairies bake the cake they lock the door. But Briar Rose/Aurora is able to get in with no one unlocking the door.
  
  
• Continuity: During the song "Once Upon A Dream" in the forest, Briar Rose places her shawl and picnic basket on the log. When it goes back to the log, they both disappear.
  
  
• Plot holes: The spinning wheel that put Aurora to sleep was not real, but a shadow of one. Technically, because of that, shouldn't have activated the curse, due to its false properties.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: The scissors that were cutting the cloth does not match with the sound.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Fauna was trying to make the cake herself, she read that she needed two eggs to go into the cake mix, and yet when she used her magic, three were put in.
  
  

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