Tarzan Goofs and Trivia

When Terk uses typewriter in the camp, the cylinder moves in the wrong direction (from her left to her right).
While Tarzan is fighting Sabor with the spear, Sabor slashes Tarzan's chest. After they both fall and Tarzan rises victorious, the slash marks are gone.
When fighting Tarzan, Clayton fires three rapid shots without reloading. A double-barreled shotgun can only fire two shots in a row.
Jane has the picture of the small baboon tucked into her skirt at the start of the big chase scene where she is rescued by Tarzan. All through the sequence the picture is missing and then at the end when the baboon is descending on the parasol the picture re-appears tucked into her skirt again.
When Tarzan defeats Sabor, he presents the body to Kerchak and lays it on the ground. Moments later, as they all run off, the body is gone.
Kala's cheek is clawed during her rescue of the infant Tarzan from the local cougar, but the claw marks are gone when she reunites with the other apes.

When the young Tarzan is trying to get a hair from an elephant's tail, the apparent depth of the water varies dramatically.
Tarzan learns to speak a human language from the English explorers, yet speaks English with an American accent.

A teapot and set of teacups in the explorers' camp bears a sharp resemblance to Mrs. Potts and her teacup children from Beauty and The Beast
Minnie Driver largely ad-libbed the breathless speech in which Jane tells her father and Clayton about meeting Tarzan for the first time.

When the gorillas pick up Professor Porter and turn him upside-down, a beanbag toy of Little Brother from Disney's Mulan falls out of his clothes.
In the original Burroughs novel, Tantor was an old bull elephant disliked by the denizens of the jungle, Sabor was a lioness, and Terkoz (presumably "Terk") was a male ape and Tarzan's arch nemesis within the troop.
The song "Son of Man" sung by Phil Collins talks of Tarzan as the Son of Man. The actor Brian Blessed who does the voice of Clayton, Tarzans enemy, played Peter - a disciple and friend of Christ in the 1969 TV-movie "Son of Man". Son of Man being Jesus in this case, who first used this expression of himself.
During Turk's musical trashing of the explorer's camp, two apes mimic the bump-bump step seen in the classic Disney short In The Bag
In the original Burroughs novel, Kerchak murdered Tarzan's family. The producers changed it not only to make him more sympathetic, but also in recognition of the scientific fact that gorillas are never that aggressive.
This film is Glenn Close's second Tarzan film. Her first was the film Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, in she voiced Jane Porter.
When one of the gorillas takes Clayton's gun to examine it, he holds it up and stares down the barrel, in exactly the same pose as one of the apes at Disneyland's "Jungle Cruise" attraction.