Micawber chases away David's tormentors and puts his arm around him, but the arm is gone in the next immediate shot. In nearly all scenes with W.C. Fields, there are continuity errors that editing does not mask.
The size of some of the words/letters engraved on David's father's tombstone grow larger from when the viewer first sees the stone to when David visits it as a boy.
Micawber folds the paper of accusation twice.
When adult David leaves Canterbury for London, a dark vertical line from a matte shot, corresponding with the right-hand side of the city gate, passes through all the characters on the stagecoach.
Micawber, an Englishman, speaks with an American accent.