Spinning Clock Hands: Difference between revisions

== [[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.

* 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.

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* 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.

 

* 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.

 

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