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• Anachronisms: When Jude is on the beach in the "Blackbird" sequence, the wind turbines in The Mersey Estuary can be seen.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the scene where the white women dance on top of the water and, subsequently, fall in, one of the platforms that a dancer (on the right side of the "v") is standing on is clearly visible, covered and uncovered by the waves.
  
  
• Continuity: In the first scene where Jude is at home with his mother, he barely spreads butter over a piece of bread and puts it in his mouth. When he turns around, the butter is spread across the entire piece.
  
  

• Continuity: When Lucy is trying to make it to the roof at the end of the movie the police officers go from having night sticks in their hands to having their hands facing palms out to stop the crowds.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: The boy in the coffin during the "Let it Be" sequence is very clearly breathing.
  
  
• Anachronisms: In the scene in New York's Port you can see a modern day ferry in the background.
  
  
• Anachronisms: A modern Merseyrail train can be seen crossing a bridge in the background of one of the Liverpool shots.
  
  
• Continuity: When Max is playing golf on the roof the beer bottle used for as a tee disappears and reappears between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: Mr. Kite's yellow gloves vanish when he's ushering the group into the tent, then reappear when he's in the tent.
  
  
• Anachronisms: In the scenes taking place on the high school basketball court, there are floor markings for a three point arc. High schools did not adopt the three point shot until the 1980s.
  
  
• Continuity: While the characters are outside Mr. Kite's tent, the lighting and shadows keep changing from a mid-day light to a sunset-like light.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: While Max is fighting in Vietnam during "Helter Skelter" his M16 has a blank firing adapter installed on the end of the barrel, which allows the prop weapon to fire multiple rounds.
  
  
• Continuity: During the "Strawberry Fields Forever" sequence a shot shows Jude's foot splattered with bright red paint. Once the shot cuts away and back, the paint disappears. When the shot then cuts away and back a second time the splattered paint is on his foot again.
  
  
• Anachronisms: When Jude returns to Liverpool and is conversing with his old girlfriend, a SmartCar passes by in the background.
  
  
• Factual errors: The armory which Max enters is actually located on 26th Street and Lexington Avenue in New York City. At the armory there is a gold "69" in the floor when you enter. It represents the Fighting 69th Regiment located in this armory. When Max enters the "69" is not visible.
  
  
• Anachronisms: "Crash" bumpers (able to withstand a 5 mph impact) are seen on the Checker cab. "Crash" bumpers weren't used on cars until the 1973 model year. The cab seen is at the earliest a 1974 model.
  
  
• Anachronisms: When Jude is seen packing his stuff in his Liverppol bedroom just after finishing on the docks we can see a Liverpool FC poster on the wall mimicking the famous "This is Anfield" sign. The LFC crest design shown on that poster hadn't come into being in the 60's - in fact it's probably more at home in the late 80's.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: During the "Come Together" dance number in the New York, one of the dancers holding a briefcase trips during the combination.
  
  
• Continuity: During the "It Won't Be Long" sequence in Lucy's bedroom with her sister and her sister's friend, the young girls are laying on the bed holding a bowl of popcorn and singing backup to Lucy, in the next shot, when Lucy joins them on the bed, the popcorn has dissolved into thin air.
  
  
• Factual errors: Military deaths are reported to family by two officers, one of which is a Chaplain. The personnel that tell Daniel's mother of his death are both Sergeants.
  
  
• Continuity: During the "Strawberry Fields Forever" sequence, when Jude first starts to paint the big strawberry, his right arm is behind his head before he starts to paint. His arm crosses his body to the left and when the camera shot is zoomed out, his right arm is behind his head again.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Jude was in the first car of the subway during "Across the Universe", a crew can be seen in the window reflection on the right side of the screen.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: As Mr. Kite backs up, he inadvertently bumps into one of the blue people.
  
  
• Continuity: Towards the end where the police are blocking off the Strawberry Jams building, in one scene as Lucy just got back they don't have the batons, but the shot right after they are all holding batons.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): During the "I Am The Walrus" scene, the man sings "coo coo cachoo" when the real lyrics to the original song was "goo goo gachoob".
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Lucy quotes the opening lyrics to "I Am the Walrus", she says "I am me, as you are he, as you are me". The correct opening (as sung by Dr. Robert) is "I am HE, as you are he, as you are me".
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Jo-Jo is playing guitar solo in "Come Together", it sounds like his Telecaster has a whammy bar, which it has not. He even mimes using it with his right hand. But with his left hand he doesn't even bend the strings.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Jude and Max run into each other at Princeton and the books fly everywhere, they leave some papers on the ground.
  
  
• Anachronisms: Just prior to the song "Dear Prudence", Max is holding a box of "Cap'n Crunch" cereal with a modern design.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Prudence bumps her head as she "comes in through the bathroom window".
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: The movie clearly takes place in November (hence Thanksgiving) in and around New York City and progresses from there, but snow is never seen. Also, it would be way too cold to be driving around with the top down in a convertible.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: During the "Happiness Is A Warm Gun" scene, whenever the priest closes the soldier's eyes, meaning that he's died, right before the priests closes the lids, you see the soldier's eyes briefly blink.
  
  

• Continuity: SPOILER: When Max is in the hospital, the bed posts change between the beginning and end of the scene.
  
  

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