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== [[Film]] ==
* [[The Beatles]]' ''[[Yellow Submarine]]'' movie uses a variant of this by showing rapidly clockwise-spinning hands when time actually ''is'' going forward rapidly, and then rapidly counterclockwise-spinning hands when time is going ''backward'' rapidly.
* At the end of ''[[Beetlejuice (Film)|Beetlejuice]]'', during the "Jump in the Line" musical number a cuckoo clock's hands are seen spinning quickly forward (clockwise).
* In the 2002 adaptation of ''[[The Time Machine]],'' the first sign Professor Hartdegen is travelling into the past is when the hands on his collection of pocket watches slow down, then reverse, speeding up as he travels further back.
* Used briefly in ''[[Mind Hunters]]'', to show time's passage when everyone {{spoiler|is knocked out by the drugged coffee}}. As the camera is watching the clock, we don't get to see the killer's activities during this interlude.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* In ''[[Romancing Sa gaSaGa 3]]'' when the spell Quick Time is cast, a clock face appears and clock hands spin rapidly until the hands reach 12 and the clock face disappears along with the hands. Quick Time allows the character to always get the first hit in regardless of the enemies speed.
** In ''[[Saga Frontier (Video Game)|Saga Frontier]]'' the spell Chaos Stream has the enemies spun around on clock hands, while the spell Overdrive has your characters standing on a clock face while fighting.
* In the Flash game ''MARDEK RPG'', the effect for the [[Status Buff]] Haste is an orange clock face whose hands start out still but then spin up into a blur.
 
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* Parodied in a ''[[Kim Possible]]'' episode, where Kim is in detention. The clock hands start to indicate passing time and begin accelerating rapidly, whereupon Barkin hits the clock face, muttering, "Stupid clock's busted again..." and resets it, indicating a grand total of... five minutes have passed.
* ''[[The Simpsons]]'' episode "Two Dozen And One Greyhounds" has a spinning clock hand when the last puppies are born.
* ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]'' episode "Op. A.W.A.R.D.S.". It turns out to be just Numbuh Four playing with his watch.
 
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