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Hello, Dolly! (1969)

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• Continuity: After sitting down for dinner at Harmonia Gardens, Dolly Levi takes the napkin off her plate twice; once in close up and once in long shot.
  
  
• Continuity: The red-carpeted staircase at the Harmonia Gardens restaurant has brass carpet rods on each stair during all of the scenes prior to the arrival of Dolly Levi. When she arrives and they sing "Hello, Dolly," the carpet rods are gone.
  
  
• Anachronisms: When the opening credits roll and the names of art directors Jack Martin Smith and Herman A. Blumenthal appear, trailed by costume designer Irene Sharaff, you can see signs for the New York Thruway in the upper left corner.
  
  

• Continuity: When Horace Vandergelder is being shaved, the barber shaves once side of his face twice, removing all the lather both times.
  
  
• Continuity: During the dancing lesson that Dolly gives Barnaby, after Irene and Minnie return from changing their clothes, Minnie Fay's dress alternates repeatedly from full-length to three-quarter-length until they all dance out the door.
  
  
• Continuity: In the dance sequence "Elegance", Irene Molloy puts a top hat over the feather already on her head. In subsequent shots, the amount of exposed feather changes between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: When Horace is marching in the parade, Dolly approaches him to talk so he holds the sword upward on his right shoulder. Between cuts, when she talks about dinner at Harmonia Gardens, the sword disappears repeatedly.
  
  
• Continuity: At the railway ticket window in NYC, the existing line of ticket buyers disappears in the shot from inside the ticket taker's office. The line re-appears in the shots outside the office.
  
  
• Continuity: In Harmonia Gardens, after Cornelius says that he is "Gonna become a honest man and tell the truth", he puts the bottle on the table and goes to sit near Irene, holding the drinking cup. When he sits down the drinking cup has disappeared.
  
  
• Continuity: When Dolly is purchasing her ticket to Yonkers, she hands the cashier the money twice.
  
  
• Continuity: During the "Elegance" number, Minnie Fay hands her money to the woman selling pretzels twice.
  
  
• Anachronisms: The Budweiser Clydesdales and beer wagon appear in the 14th street parade. They were not formed until 1933, well after the period in which Hello Dolly is set.
  
  
• Continuity: Near the finale of "Now That I'm Dancing", the female dancers leap forward over a park bench via a low platform behind it. In the following wide shot, this riser has disappeared.
  
  
• Factual errors: Several times during the movie, Barnaby Collins mentions seeing the whale at Barnum's American Museum. However, in the fourteenth street parade, there is a banner for Barnum and Bailey's Circus. The American Museum burned down in 1865 and Barnum & Bailey didn't become partners until 1881.
  
  
• Anachronisms: As opening credits roll over railroad footage, abandoned wreckage of a Sixties era car can be seen on right side of train tracks.
  
  
• Continuity: During the 'Elegance' sequence, the hem on the back Irene's dress gets dirtier and dirtier as they walk to Harmonia Gardens. Inside the restaurant, the hemline is spotless.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: In the park, during 'It Only Takes a Moment', the group of bystanders starts to sing. There are only 9 there, and only 3 of them women, yet the chorus heard is clearly much bigger and much more female.
  
  

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