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• Continuity: When Kong is on top of the Empire State building, and is shot by one of the bi-planes, you can clearly see two bullet holes and blood coming from his chest. The wound immediately disappears.
  
  
• Continuity: When Kong is carrying Ann during the fight with the dinosaurs, Ann's legs are facing one direction and her torso (including her head) is facing the opposite direction.
  
  
• Continuity: When Ann slides down a muddy slope, her back is covered with very dark mud. When she gets up, her back is clean.
  
  

• Continuity: When Ann disarms Kong, she jumps onto the floor with her head up. When she jumps back up again, dirt is on her forehead. A few seconds later, her forehead is clean.
  
  
• Continuity: When Kong is chasing Jack Driscoll, you see a shot of an alleyway with a woman in white walking across the alleyway. The camera cuts to the opposite end of the alley, and the woman has disappeared.
  
  
• Anachronisms: Denham asks Ann if she wears a size 4. Commercial standards for clothing sizes were formally accepted in 1957, and they started at size 8.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When leaving New York, a 360 degrees shot is taken of the boat by night. However, the shape of the plume of smoke coming from the chimney does not change with the camera's point of view.
  
  
• Continuity: During the brontosaur jostling scene in the canyon, Bruce Baxter's character is threatened by a velociraptor standing just above his head. Seen from above, Baxter's reaction is to turn to his right, yet on the next shot we see him turning to his left.
  
  
• Continuity: When Driscoll steps in the camel manure below decks, the following shot just after he wipes off his shoe shows a clean floor with no piles or patches of manure.
  
  
• Continuity: Just before Kong falls from the Empire State Building, Ann Darrow is seen lying next to him with her shoes off. As he plunges to his death, she stands up and is wearing her heels again.
  
  
• Factual errors: In one scene, it is shown that there is a name of the town of 'Surabaya' (Indonesia) under the name of S.S. Venture. 'Surabaya' is its modern spelling. If it was 1933, it should have been spelled 'Soerabaja'. The spelling was changed in late 1960s.
  
  
• Anachronisms: Floodlighting of the upper floors and tower of the Empire State Building began with the 1964 World's Fair. No such lighting existed in the night sky of the 1930's.
  
  
• Continuity: After the scene with the Brachiosaurus, Mike has a conversation with the main character, Jack Driscoll. During the conversation, the rope on Mike's shoulder disappears.
  
  
• Continuity: After forbidding Jimmy to join the search party for Ann, Hayes discovers Jimmy with the party by pulling off Jimmy's hood with his right hand. But, on the next shot, Jimmy's hood is pulled off by Hayes' left hand.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: At the very beginning of the film, during Al Jolson's song, the camera looks down on a bridge with lots of cars passing it. On the right side of screen, an animated plume of smoke from a chimney is frozen - on the left side animation is working correctly.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Although there are more buildings now, the layout of New York City was pretty much the same in 1933. The film shows a body of water (iced over) and then a couple of blocks away the Empire State Building. There is no such nearby body of water.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Near the end of the film, from the ice skating scene, we know the temperature is below freezing. At the Empire State Building, Ann has no body fat and is nearly naked. Her hands should be uselessly cold for climbing metal rungs, since metal conducts temperature well. She should go into hypothermia (cold shock) less than 5 minutes after leaving Kong's hot hand, and die shortly after.
  
  
• Anachronisms: At approx 1h 15m, at the end of the sequence where Kong carries Ann through the forest, there is a very brief scene where you can see that Ann is wearing pantyhose (not invented at that time) and you do not see her in stockings after that.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: During the entire scene on top of the Empire State building, the sun is at least ten times bigger than normal.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Ann "meets" Kong for the first time she is bound securely with some very large pieces rope around her wrists. Kong hoists her up her waist, snapping the ropes very easily. Given the size of the rope this would more than likely rip her arms completely off (or cause her serious injury). (Unless the natives were really bad at knot tying.)
  
  
• Errors in geography: The Venture travels from New York (the Atlantic) to the Pacific without passing the Panama Canal.
  
  
• Continuity: When you first see Ann is sound asleep in Kong's arms she's facing right but when they zoom in she's facing left.
  
  

• Continuity: SPOILER: When Kong falls off the Empire State Building at the end, the ladder on the side of the Empire State Building's dome is in front of Ann, below Kong's chin. But when Kong falls off we cut to a rotating shot from above as Kong falls down, and the ladder is gone. Then Jack climbs up the ladder behind Ann.
  
  

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