Statue of Liberty

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Let David Copperfield Show You Make It Vanish And Appear Again!! But He Is Definitely Not
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Let David Copperfield show you how to make it disappear and appear again!! But he is definitely not telling how the trick is done! Perhaps someone out there can explain the trick?

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    i read somewhere that the stage where the audience was sitting slowly rotated and so when the curtain was dropped they saw nothing. then they just rotated the stage back so that the statue was back in view. not sure if that's really how it was done or any of the answers to some of the obvious questions that that explanation brings up, but that's just what I read online somewhere.

    By get over it 1145260391 Reply Spam [+5] Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • Old Man Moff

      You read right

      By Old Man Moff 1176998165 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • a black curtain

      a black curtain is all it is. You can seethe searchlight stop hitting the other curtain as soon as it's lowered and then they're dimmed when he opens it again because they're behind the black curtain now.

      By dafkamyon 1176418812 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • Black Curtin

      The black curtin is hiding Manhattan not the Statue...lights were extinguished on the Statue and new lights installed in empty space

      By Old Man Moff 1177000784 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • that makes no sense

      If it was done by rotating the stage in order to make them think they were looking at empty space, then the ilussion just got even cooler, as it would have required him making either Jersey, Long Island, Staten Island or f'ing Manhattan disappear!

      By Alphabet_Citizen 1176079936 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • umm...

      Wouldn't the audience feel the rotation? Or notice the diffuse glow of the light moving? Or realize they're getting on a huge lazy susan?

      By rev.felix 1175806808 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • Statue of Liberty

      It was a paid audience and the stage did rotate and there was no need for a black curtin..I was there!!!!

      By Old Man Moff 1176997858 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • Date Satute of Liberty Disappears: Met m...

      My husband and I met the night David Copperfield made the statue of liberty disappear. What was the Month and day? I have forgotten?

      By janlau 1177545062 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • staue of libery vanish secret

      yep its called a lazy susan
      turn table
      type in
      statue ofliberty vanish secret
      in alt.magic.secrets
      in google.com
      http://magicsecrets.suddenlaunch3.com
      lance burton use this idea for his b2 stealth bomber vanish in day time

      By magicbill 1167546909 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • if the stage rotated

      you could have seen the statue coming out from the right of the curtain right?

      By Atlofas 1146830585 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • this is how its done

    my uncle pays lots of money for these tricks so i know how most of david copperfield's tricks are done, the 2 statues in the middle put a white curtain over the statue, at the same time, a black curtain the same color as the night sky is placed behind that, then the helicopter flys infront of it, its all point of view with david

    By Llluke 1169607170 Reply Spam [+2] Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • wtf

    The old women said has never seen A Statue of Liberty disappear like that before.
    How many are there? Also how many did she see disappear?

    By II LiL John II 1170999287 Reply Spam [+1] Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • Does it really matter how it was done?

    The thing is IT WAS AN ILLUSION. NOT REAL. Just a trick.. the statue is STILL there..

    By Swanie 1145565544 Reply Spam [+1] Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • I found a clue...

    after he says "Theres that jacket again" at about 1:48 he points at the monitor and then narrates " Right about now im thinking. i hope this works." If you look at the bottom left corner of that Green monitor, that nobody knows what it is, You can see the Light from something move to the Bottom left of the other side of the monitor slow and carefully, Even in the movement of the Spinning Platform. Then he looks at the monitor again (at about 2:00 and sees the light position, then waits a little, then goes for the curtain, now once again this is a clue that proved that it WAS a platform to me.

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  • that song.....

    i love it, its amazing, anyone know wat its called and where i can find it

    By ROBBIE64 1183182408 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • hi

    hi im sexey

    By xxz924 1175997061 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • The Trick

    Platform audience is on rotates a bit to right or left. There is the arch colum that has the curtains atached to it. When the audience is rotated, the line of view to the statue is blocked by the arch. Simpler example, if you are far away enough from say, a mountain and you hold your hand up in front of your eye, you block the mountain from sight. ILLUSION!

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  • photoshop

    hubabuba

    By XxXmazXxX 1170628795 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • HOLLY SHIT!!!

    By a mad world 1168905505 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • How Simple

    This is how it works.

    The audience can see the statue of liberty through the pilars.

    The curtain the comes up to block the audience. The live audience is on a secret swiveling platform that rotated slowly to the side of the statue. The statue of liberty lights are turned off, blip on the radar is a part of a video animation.

    The curtain is lowered, the audience and the viewers watching on TV see that the statue has disapeared but all they looking at is a duplicate set of lights that is situated right next to the real statue of liberty. The light of the two towers are there to night blind the audience for a few minutes to make hard to see the statue of liberty.

    The curtain is then raised up the audience is rotated again to face the real statue of liberty the curtain drops again and there she is.

    How simple is that :) :D

    By SkullReiver 1150911042 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • hey

    i've heard that he placed mirrors in front of the statue, on ships which were near the statue so we were watching what was behind of the statue

    By greek2006 1149286863 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • maybe he used the ginnie

    maybe he used the ginnie to make this illusion

    By aanuar 1147918293 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • easy trick ! david copperfield is the wo...

    metod

    he just turn of the lights from the statue and turn the stage a litle to the right and there he has a duplicate of lights... easy as hell ! david copperfield can burn in hell !

    By kampa 1146401866 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • !!

    maybe he used a black curtain>>> (((MAYBE)))

    By kittyyy 1145585362 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • I also thought the same...

      That he would just let a huge black curtain on the statue of ligerty.... but the things is: It would still be visible... because the light breakes when it reaches the curtain... I think that the stage WAS rotated.... but I still wonder... the curtain wasn't up for so long.. if the stage would have to rotate that fast, the people would start falling OFF!...

      I have a question: Why at night? And Why put that stupid radar, when EVERYONE knows its just a fake piece of crap?! He actually made me think it was fake, because the radar was fake... "if he was

      I can't be sure if it is magic, or if it is a trick, but there
      is ONE true fact:
      Criss Angel is a better magician than him! At least Criss Angel does it in a way, that he TELLS you it is a trick, and not magic, but (of course) he doesnt tell you the trick. This asshole is doing all these stupid poses and making stupid faces, as if he would really be doing magic! AND HE DOES NOTHING! David Copperfield is just a guy being filmed, while he is acting and jumping around; meanwhile, all these (background workers) people are sweating blood just to make him have his success!

      1st: if the stage DID rotate, then it was a designer's idea to make a stage that could turn! D.Copperfield wouldn't build up one himself! So it wasn't HIM who was working on making the engine, building up the stage, and getting all the resources / metarials! And NOT only the stage, but also the lighting: I don't believe it was all set up by him, NOR that it was him who directed all the people who were working there!

      2nd: The second thing that tells me 'This is a fake!' is: He did this trick at night. Why? I think it would have been a better business if he would do it in the morning; More people would have time to go there, to watch the show! But "Noooo! "Then the people would see the sky turning around them!" or "No, because then the black curtain would be visible, and I can't put a blue/white curtain on! That would be seen too!"

      3rd thing: The way he does his "stuff" are too obvious not to be real!
      For example: Once he took a girl on stage, and asked her to write her number down on a piece of paper, while he was turned away, busy doing some stuff. Then he turned back to the girl to take her paper (that was folded 3x) and after that, he burned it... Oh, of course he didnt know the girl... he even asked her: "Did we meet before?" And she said: "No!"..... You know what I say to that? BULLSHIT! Of course when he took her on the stage, the show was not on yet, he had plenty of time to ask her for her phone number!!
      He basically SUCKS!

      By -=PET3R=- 1151169216 Reply Spam [+1] Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • hey shutup....

      you may not like it, but where are you with your creative entertainment. i dont see you trying to astound us. Why cant you just enjoy, your the type of person that watches a movie and just complains about how none of this could be real. I do magic tricks all the time, and yes it is not real magic, its or entertainment. Criss Angel, doesn't do his own tricks, he has taken a few from dopperfield himself, so whose the fake? Check yourself buddy.

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  • common!

    what the hell!how the hell?

    By roadrunner12345 1145129055 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • What the ...

    How the hell did he do that !!!!! hmmm i bet its fake, he cant do that, millions of people in usa wouldv seen it dissapeared ...

    By Tartoooby 1144858250 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • listen

      only reason that this trick was famous and still is is that other people have seen it from their apartments or even in the streets that it was actually dissapeared. that is why this magic caused a big tantrum in new york.

      By wenzer 1177095873 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • what

      he did do it obviously, he put it in his pocket. it wasnt an illusion, he is a wizzard.... signed, harry potter

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  • You guys are retarded: How to REALLY do ...

    Okay, we hire 200 white people to come watch this illusion - they are the most gullible. Then, 2 columns are placed in front of the audience. We then hire 30 Mexicans @ 20cents a piece. When the curtain is raised they push the statue of liberty off it's pedestal and into the water. That's why when the curtain drops, it doesn't drop all the way down.
    Then when the curtain goes back up, we have 30 Cubans that we hired to swim in the water and push the statue back up onto her pedestal. It's all basic math and physics really!

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  • look at the radar

    if you look at the radar you see a glare, it rotates and when he gets up it stops

    By zero intelect 1168156923 Reply Spam [-1] Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • Its called...

    Misdirection

    By VvoicezZ 1159810438 Reply Spam [-1] Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • simple

    The stage where the audience is sitting on , slowly rotate to the left while the curtain is going up. the lights are out and the lights are turned on those from the left side, the radar is only a video.

    By SkullReiver 1150911372 Reply Spam [-1] Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • all of you are wrong

    well so far, all of you are wrong ... i am a professional magician and i know how he did it ... and none of you have guessed right so far. ... so quit trying.

    By TheMav 1150806306 Reply Spam [-1] Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • ya, you all got it wrong...

      only us "professionals" no how to do it. dave had a shrinking machine and shrunk the statue small enough to where you couldn't see it. then he lowered the curtain, showed it wasn't there, lifted the curtain, took out his growing machine, blew the statue back up to normal size, and there you have it...shut the fuck up dude, like you really know how it was done.

      By STREETMAGICIAN 1153256833 Reply Spam [+2] Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • comeon

    all you dumb idiots out there, he did not take the statue away, how can he take
    something that weighs a few hundred tons, it is just the way he use the certain
    curtain and masking the statue out and use some hologram to do any illusion
    he wants, he is just faking it; have you noticing he did not ask anyone to go
    behind that curtain to check if the status is there. the statue si always there
    unless it is physically break down the foundation and haul away by a crane.

    use your head all you idiots out there

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    • well.

      they told me it was mirrors, and many ppl saw the statue of liberty dissapear for some seconds.

      By Mrs. Depp 1148485096 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • moon vanish 2008 copperfield

      hey cool illusionist david seth kot kin
      copperfiledsgood at light and shadow mode and hollow tables and hollow stairs and lighting schemes loud music to hid moving objects
      soon new for CBS destation MOON
      with christian illusionist andrekole
      help:) 7 ways to make moon vanish

      3 hour special

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