David Copperfield - Vanishing the Statue of Liberty
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- budurl.com/Amaz... - David Copperfield vanishes the Statue of Liberty in front of a live audience on Liberty Island. No camera tricks were used and this was first featured in his 5th television The Magic of David Copperfield V: Vanishing the Statue of Liberty.
This illusion is listed by the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest disappearance ever performed by a magician.
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3:03 "I have never seen a Statue of Liberty disappear the way this one did". like you've ever seen another
+william montag lol
3:06 get the time right dumbass
+ROBLOX Cxnquered 3:04 get the time right dumbass
She's been through several timelines. This one featured David Copperfield disappearing the statue of Liberty, which went unsuccessful the last two timelines.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replicas_of_the_Statue_of_Liberty
Don't know if anyone has made them disappear.. but you never know.
Classic. My dad did this trick to himself once. Haven't seen him since.
Guess what, I'm here
That so sad💀
Brilliant wizard, terrible father.
Damn 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Lol 🤣🤣🤣
"mommy the floor is moving...."
"Shhh quiet honey, Mr Copperfield is making the statue disappear!"
Haha
Wait 😳
Hol' up
You got the crux pal.
@@Cotton.brain. ?
I like the way illusionists move their hands; like they expect you to believe they are channelling and controlling some kind of cosmic energy.
+matthewakian2 I like to make similar movements trying to make those hand dryers work in public restrooms.
+matthewakian2 Magicians are simply entertainers. It's to make the act more entertaining and mystifying.
Yeah because it would be so much better if they just conducted it like a scientist in a lab with no enthusiasm as if it's just par for the course. Of course youd want to play up the illusion. It adds to the entertainment value.
the audience moved
Colby Steffen Ya, cool illusion.....
The audience wasn't in on it. This was a a real illusion. The audience was placed on a rotating platform and he slowly rotated it so no one would noticed. When the curtains dropped the audience were actually facing the other way. The whole set was designed so you wouldn't know you were moving. The spotlights used to "pass through the empty space" was actually there to blind the audience should they turn around to where the actual statue was.
Was the helicopter also on the rotating platform?
The masked magician revealed this trick
As much as I’m glad to know this piece of information, I’ve completely lost my hope in magic. Thank you anyway, though.
12T90 LSD25 All I meant is that it doesn’t feel the same. I know it’s not real but it’s why people enjoy watching magic cause it looks real. I admit I may have phrased it a bit misleading as I said I lost my hope in it. What I meant was it just feels like “oh.”
The audience WAS in on it. With a rotating platform, you can still see the rest of New Jersey and the harbor going by you. These people were extras.
I keep a compass on my keychain in case I'm ever invited to one of these
exactly thats how I think its done to. nothing like a little rotation
Lmao
1983
King of the Hill
Hank: I don't like magicians, don't trust them
Bill: ever since David Copperfield made the statue of liberty disappeared
Hank: shame on him
noe barajas Why I’m here! 🤣
@@martinwilliams6058 same
That's exactly why I'm here. Just to see why Hank was Upset
I literally just saw that episode 1 mins ago lol XD
This coment rules
*France: Heavy Breathing Intensifies*
Everyone now knows the trick but at the time of it was performed, it was a masterpiece of illusion and every magic lover have to respect this masterpiece... Magic is just a word... Ideas and techniques makes it looks magical
No bro, this is pure scam, nothing magic about this
@@masterofreality5528 magic of illusions us magic it’s self
It was only a masterpiece because it was on television, meanwhile the rest of the people around the statue just shrugged while seeing the statue..
@@decypher0815 but the live audience didn't see it. It was brilliantly done
@@mrhater123 yes but for everyone else including TV audience it was just cringe to watch.
This was a big deal in the 80's. I remember watching it live on TV. I've thought about it every now and then since it's been done. Despite secrets about it coming out, it's pretty awesome still. It was so dramatic at the time. Remember, this was before the internet, before many even had a VCR to even tape it (I know I didn't!). You just experienced it and it stuck with you for a long time. Still does!
I remember being disappointed, like it's just a trick. But oh the hype leading up to it was amazing.
1983
Yeah the world has gone to complete shit.
Yup, simpler times. It's cool having the news and opinions from all around the world in real time but I'm just old enough to remember when one was only really concerned about what happened in their own community and back yard.
Only the big international news and events got through and that's all that was really needed.
Yeah I caught one of his last live specials in like 1993 (?) when I was a kid and damn it was fun. Simpler times.
ask him to make it disappear during the day....
carapungo sure lemme just call him real quick
@@chava6421 sooo did you convinced him? 😂😂
@@anunglaMrs-aier He answered and told me he could make me disappear... he hung up :(
carapungo it had nothing to do with the time of day. the stage was slightly rotated to make it look like the statue disappeared
Serena Fonseca yes but, behind those pillars that obstruct their view of the statue
Even though the trick was revealed, it is one of the greatest illusions ever made.
It is nice to know, how it worked, but you must be THIS creative to come up with this idea!
How does this work?
1983
I love his brain
And that's how it ended up on the beach in planet of the apes.
Underrated comment
Or buried in the snow up to her nose in tropical Madison, WI, like the university's Student Association did with future MST3K producer Jim Mallon.
@@minty_Joe holy shit with that comment 😂🤣
@@china_is_asshole And sad fact...it is very true. Jim Mallon ran for president of the SA. He made a lot of absurd promises and equally funny ways to spend their funds. One of those projects was making a display showing a huge SoL buried in the snow up to her nose. Another classic: Cover all of Bascom Hill with pink flamingos. There are pics of both on Google search. rofl
1983
Only if he could make my dad reappear
He'd be quicker to pull up the pack of cigarettes that your dad went out for.
Oh snap
Damn I’m sorry to hear that
Lmaooo
VictoriaSmoke R bruh stfu this could be fake or real never know so show sympathy, it’s hard enough to have any of your family members gone
Background music is Mozarts requiem in d for anyone wandering
Thank you,
Thanks. You read my mind.
No one was wondering
Thank u, i always wonder haven't i hear this somewhere..
Background music was blasted so high that the platform was vibrating so that audience will never know they are rotating
Guys he hired Vector to steal it and replace it. That statue is an inflatable!
lmao
Vector with both directions and magnitude booyaah!
UNpreDICTABLE!!!
Watch the reflection of light on the radar screen move from 1:42 to 1:53. It's consistent with a light source behind the camera moving from left to right, which would happen if the platform that the camera and everything else was on was rotating clockwise. Interesting that Copperfield and his crew missed such a big tell in an otherwise well-orchestrated illusion.
Amazing observation. So simple yet so clear about what is going on. The question is how did they not feel the movement? They must have turned 40 degrees at least in 4 seconds.
@@konstantinospalapanidis6414 The loud music (which must have been near deafening) and lights would’ve helped to distract them. Like when a pickpocket taps your shoulder as they grab your wallet on the other side; we focus on one sensation (the tap) while ignoring the smaller sensation (the swipe). Or the gorilla experiment. Our brains like to focus on a few things at a time.
Sufficiently loud music may have distracted them from any small rumbling of the platform shifting (plus it helps that it wasn’t a huge shift too).
@@tisvana18 well said. Makes much sense.
1983
They only turned maybe 10 degrees at most. If you look at all those pillars with lights on it, they are blacked out between them so only one side would be needed to block out the statue. You can tell they are blacked out because the spotlights that are scanning behind them show in the middle and in the edges of the screen but not in the area where the pillars are. This whole trick was just a forced perception masked with clever distractions.
“I have never seen a Statue of Liberty disappear the way this one did” lmao uhhhh
As a kid, pre-Internet, this blew my mind. All of those Copperfield specials did.
What they don’t tell you is the audience was on a moving track. (True) And there were two rings of lights. One around the statue, and 2nd set to the right. Curtain goes up, audience moves, pillar blocks their view, 1st set of lights go out and 2nd go on. The helicopter moved so it looked like it was still monitoring the statue, but was lighting the empty ring of lights. Curtain goes up, audience moves back into place.
Thanks. #ChildhoodRuined
1983
isnt the point of the routine NOT to tell us that?
@amyminus4622 Thanks for sharing! #davidcopperfield #statueofliberty
Lies. He makes it dissapear!!
3:04 - "I have never seen the Statue of Liberty disappear like this one did!" She also meant to say that she is Thee Official : " Watcher of REALLY Tall buildings disappear!!"
I can't imagine how much money it must have cost to move the audience's platform without them noticing.
That was so cool!😁
You assume the audience wasn't in on it? Getting a fake audience of like 20 people probably doesn't cost any more than that fake radar.
It probably costed much more than your English classes. 😂
@@MareTranquil The audience probably wasn't in on it. He was playing really loud music, which masked the movement of the stage. Everybody probably felt some kind of vibration from the stage moving, but just attributed those vibrations to the loud music.
@@MareTranquilIs this the same radar they use for Santa tracking on Dec 24th?
I believe it was confirmed the audience was in on it.
Val Valentino 1997-98 exposed many "secrets." But even if you know how an illusion is performed, it's still impressive to see it performed very well. Close sleight of hand is still the purest form of the art of magic.
Sleight of hand? I don't think he was hiding the Statue of Liberty behind his thumb lol
@@autumn702 that's my point, large illusions are basically staging with smoke & mirrors, I.e., you don't really need skill beyond the staging effects, but sleight of hand, close up, takes years of practice.
Yes Valentino performed the same illusion but with an Army tank instead of the statue. The secret is audience was on a rotating platform and had no idea they were moving. Same when Valentino made the large tank vanish, he actually moved the picture frame but audience had no idea it as moving due to camera angle.
This is litterally in my history book. My HISTORY BOOK
Dang! Which country and class/standard/grade (in school)?
EDIT: On a second thought, he must be a Hogwart's student. xD
Is "litterally" in your spelling book?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA NICE ONE KEN
I'm sorry, dude. And I lived through it. lol.
I was kid when watching that trick😆😉 one of the best ever👌👌👌..now ppl acting like they know everything..it was a pure masterpiece at that time
@C'dam A'ruz congratulations you must be special 1 then
I saw a comment here saying that its a rotating stage, people in the stage cant see it but the rest of the world can and he called it retarded, just appreciate the hard work and thinking this trick went through, its an ILLUSION for fuck sake, nowadays everybody is trying to be a smartass
1983
What a great stunt! All these years later and people are still talking about it...
OK now who is here because of this American life!
Guilty as charged!
Yup
We know how it's done
Ayeeee thank you
absolutely :D
Okay,so he block view in front of statue,but what with helicopter or people who was back behing of statue? What they saw?
yea seriously dude
Tako je
English?
Yes. Most of the big magic tricks involve people what are "in on the act". That's what makes it more believable. Magic uses people in the audience. Television uses laughing reels.
MAGIČNI VIDEO this comment makes
no sense in English.
it's a weeping angel.
And when they stopped anyone from looking at it with the curtains, it was able to move
Hahaha. Of course...
1983
The technology he used to accomplish this was revolutionary for it's time. It's regularly used today.
A moving platform was revolutionary for its time?
Nice attempt but didn't work
What technology?
@@drussell710 it's a pun, if youtube allowed me I'd call you an very dim anus
You seen the Statue of Liberty disappear, NOW ILL MAKE THE TWIN TOWERS DISAPPEAR!
I knew someone would comment this.
1983
Ok for those who don’t know, he actually created a inter-dimensional portal machine that allowed him to jump the audience and himself into a timeline where the Axis won WW2 and destroyed the Statue of Liberty
I love that they used Requiem Lacrimosa as music
03:04 😂 „I have never seen a Statue of Liberty 🗽 disappear the way this one did“ - clearly the best comment 😂😂😂
RIP grandma
1983
1:32 - Curtain raised. The audience platform is connected to the two towers holding the curtain. The platform moves position. The Port Authority turns off the lights of the statue and the lights circling it. A separate circle of lights are turned on.
When I was a kid I was especially impressed by how he fooled the radar. Because of course they definitely wouldn't use fake radar, would they?
that would be real shame
1983
That's not a radar, it's the Statue's pulse monitor.
Yep they did that too! I mean the statue of liberty? Really???
Let him vanish the Covid-19.
That vanished after the agenda was met
1983
2:02 - We are seeing an empty area of the Hudson river. Same circle of lights, just they are circling nothing, so the spot lights can beam through the area. The statue is around to the far right, but with all of it's lights turned off.
“I have never seen a Statue of Liberty disappear the way this one did.“ -Babbled Lady
Stupid hired in actress, not worth the fee she was paid.
കാർത്തിക്ക് സൂര്യയുടെ പോഡ്കാസ്റ്റ് വീഡിയോ കണ്ട് വന്നവർ ഉണ്ടോ 😂😍
Preeth azhikode.....
😹
Unde bro...
“I have never seen a Statue of Liberty disappear the way this one did!”
"Are there other Statues of Liberty in your life?"
1983
I remember watching this back in the days, the next day at school our teacher brought it in by recording it on VHS lol
Sir you are OLD
1983
Damn, that must have been awesome!
If you still don’t know, this would be literally impossible to do with mirrors or angles or camera tricks, the stage just moved to the right and they had a matching platform for the lights setup to the right of the statue too
#ChildhoodRuined
1983
I loved his magic growing up!
I can make nachos disappear. It's a gift.
+Ryan Reed lol
+Ryan!
you sir win the internets
+Nick Wilcox
There is only one internet..
I can maek dank memes disapeer tew
***** wtf bro chill
'I've never seen a statue of liberty disappear the way this one did,'
As the “tables turn” he disappeared the statue and also brought it back!! What a “turn” of events !! IYKYK
Makes so much more sense when you know how its done
In an alternate reality, this was just an elaborate heist
Thank you "This American Life" for bringing me here 👍
That was so cool. I’ve never seen a magic trick that good
Now everybody's showing their supposed cleverness by disrespecting this feat, but had you been in the audience back then, you would have had your mouth dropped to the floor like anybody else.
This is what I call, the worlds greatest speed paint of the color black
Sneaky Pete 'the reluctant taxidermist'
The god damn buffalo
Yaaaaaaaay..
I'm not the only oneee
@@rmr5044 the hell no she doesn't...just put yourself in her shoess...
@@rasika8640 Carley kinda sucks but only a lil
I was just watching that episode and searched David lol
2:39 - Audience members are paid performers for this. Used so many times by magicians especially on TV magic shows of the 70s, 80s and 90s.
The stage rotated. Watch the radar screen as the curtain is up. The light tower's reflection on the rim of the radar screen betrays the illusion.
Karthik surya fans ibade come on...
1:30 you'll note that the blimp is on the right side of the statue, traveling to the right in direction
2:00 the blimp is now further to the left, still traveling right.
My theory: The illusion was done by rotating the stage or viewing window in some way clockwise, away from the actual location of the statue. After the initial reveal, youcan even see the blimp "swaying" in a way that indicates that the cameras fixed perspective on the stage is rotating clockwise.
Also, when he brings it baxk the aircraft is now moving with velocity to the left, which makes me believe that it accelerated in that direction to compensate for the displacement that would have happened from rotating the stage slightly back counter clockwise, to make the illusion that nothing had moved around at all. This explanation would also explain why such a narrow viewing window was used.
+cholrus69 lol the statue is behind the left pillar its all about the pillars and lights its all just a amazing illusion
Lol at this dude pretending "his theory" is a rotating stage. When you know he just watched a video that shows how it's done... with a rotating stage.
It’s a loaded form of reasoning to theorize what was already known as fact prior.
Previously on the Americans...
That blimp being in the wrong spot is the biggest giveaway of how this was done.
The thing that amazes me most about these tricks is how much freakin money they would cost to pull off. Like how insanely rich was the guy that he could do MANY crazy illusions like this?!
in the 90s and 80s they were like madonna and michael jackson level famous. This was before 3d movies, digital and stuff, so illusions like that were really captivating. Now everything is illusion, so were more interested in actual reality ahhaha.
If you know how the trick is done, then you could see how the audience there was shocked. But doing TV magic like this is a big production. Everyone is in on it except for the live audience. And this trick was so simple that the production had to have been even bigger with the helicopter and lights. Camera angles. What they didn't notice is that the stage they were sitting on slowly rotated to the right while Copperfield was doing all his hand motions. The trust set up on the left blocked the view of the real Statue and the lights were turned off. All they had to do was set up fake lights to the right of the statue and turned them on. Extremely simple and wouldn't have been possible without the production.
Explain what you mean, please, with "live audience." Do you mean that the 30 or so people watching and clapping and being interviewed are the "live audience" that were not in on the hoax, or do you mean that they were paid actors and the viewing public watching it on TV were the only ones who didn't know? Did the audience members sitting there realize that their platform was being rotated, or was it so smooth (and they didn't expect this technology to exist) that they never processed that they were moving?
Rotating stage and totally different light ring with different light signature than the lights surrounding the statue (only giveaway from video). Cool trick!
I don't know if you noticed that this happened before 1985 and there is one good indicator for this. You noticed the Statue of Liberty is holding her old torch? It's lit up and you can see though it sort of. The current torch is literally a solid gold color and doesn't light up.
From about 1:45 to 1:50 you can see light reflection on the "radar" display revolve around the periphery of the screen as the entire stage rotates.
I saw Super man fly past grab her hand go around the world and then drop her back on there did no one else see that?
I saw the payday crew
Thomas Mccaughey k
Yep I you look real close in lady liberties eye you can see a cloaker
Thomas Mccaughey We call this a difficulty tweak. WULULULULULULULU!
Lol Superman IV reference. Nicee
interesting that you can see the rotation of the platform they're on by the reflecting lights on the "radar"
They actually raised the water level a couple hundred feet in the area until it covered the statue and the stage floated up until it was above statue.
"i had never seen the statue of liberty dissapear" ............ ?????
Karthik ettante podcast kand vannathaaa...
This trick is about as difficult to figure out as a game of "peek-a-boo" with my granddaughter.
Reminds me of Home Improvement when Brad tries to impress a girl at school by reading David Copperfield and he thinks it's about the magician until Jill tells him it's about a tortured wafe. Then Tim sees him reading it too and says "that guys great, he made the statue of liberty disappear!" LOL
qwert9876 I remember that episode that is how I heard about that statue of liberty trick.
One of my favorite tricks Dave does.
As a kid watching this back in the days, i didnt sleep for night from how much i got scared
The show was given on a hall by occasion that could turn a few degrees.
When the curtain was up, the hall turned some degrees. So when the curtain whent down, the statue seems to be gone...
Imagine being in the statue and suddenly falling 300 feet because a magican wanted to do a light trick
*AT **1:44** ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE LIGHTS STATUE OF LIBERTY COULD BE SEEN MOVING*
*SO IT MEANS THAT THE WHOLE STAGE IS MOVING AT A LOW SPEED AND WHEN THE CURTINS ARE OPENED THE DIRECTION* *IS CHANGED*
The American Life just did a story on this and it was fascinating.
Good thing that he made it appear back. Hard to tell what would happen otherwise
Who remembers watching this live? When you couldn't just google the next day to see how it was done and you went to school talking about it?
One of the reasons he no longer performs
I bet there is a giant black coat with very good designs so it could bleaned in
She just activated her stealth mode
1983
Pfft, I've seen her walk the streets of NYC on Ghostbusters and stare at Melody Pond with an evil face when she was on top of a roof in the city back in the day. No lights or spinning platforms. Who ya gonna call, the Doctor..
2:02 "Oh shit, my heart just stopped ... again" - Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi
2021: he should makes corona virus disappear..
So cool!
she was actually just hidden behind one of the towers that held the sheet up. David moved the platform everyone was on, using loud music so the audience wouldn't know or feel the shift. The move changed their perspective so that the statue went behind the tower.
In fact, if you watch the radar machine next to David as he is making the statue disappear, you can see a glare appear because at that point, the stage is moving.
How to explain view from helicopter? The liberty's base (circle lamps) still there, but no statue? It just another jointed clip?
Oh yeah. Statue is on back side. Moving plateform nobody could feel. Amazing
Amazing in which sense?
1983
“SHAME ON HIM!!!”
-Hank Hill
Lmao
1983
I always thought the whole thing was a urban legend or a religious panic tale since my folks would talk about it back in the day but of course there was no video available to see, plus I thought the trick had been done during the day. Now that I see it I'm like, "Oh... it was at night and he used distractions and rotating stage to create the illusion. That's neat".
People on a ferry:
WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON!?!?
As a kid in the 90s, this was like prime event that we could talk about for days.
Anyone here from This American Life?
Pauline Adkins yes lol
Me.
I am. Two observations/opinions: Magic is entertainment. I don't want illusions explained. Also, if you want to impress me, do something like this in the daytime.😁
Yep!
yes :)
I came here from the episode of wizards of waverly place
Jose Diego ME TOO HAHA!!
LMAO SAME
What was it called
Me too kKkkKkKk
ME TOO LMAO
If though we know how it was done its still very cool to watch. Its so well done.
Why does everyone seem satisfied with the rotating audience explanation? We saw the empty place where the statue should be from a helicopter´s viewpoint. Was the helicopter also rotating? Doesn´t it make bit of a difference if you´re watching from the ground or from several meters above the statue itself?
ThePhilosorpheus because thats what happened.
ebscoHOST I know that´s probably what happened. I just don´t believe everything I´m told. What about the helicopter?
ThePhilosorpheus cuz they're a bunch of retards.. Seriously how stupid can you be to believe in such an explanation? If it rotated SOMEBODY WOULD HAVE FELT IT. A lighting trick would make much more sense.
The curtain was up for 15min at the live event the rotation was over that period of time and duplicate lights in a circle pattern were illuminated in a position relative to the new angle it was a very slow process so that the audience would not notice and the footage of the helicopter flying by the lights may not even have been recorded at the event
ThePhilosorpheus nice L profile picture
I remember watching this as a two year old. Pretty nifty magic trick that I remember anything from that long ago.
I'm truly amazed that people remember stuff from when they were 2-xxx years old!
My earliest "clear" memory is from when I'm 20 or 21 (I'm 29), and even that is a very generic recollection that could also be from a movie.
I can't honestly tell you what I did/heard/saw/said last week, I just KNOW the general details: I was at work, I cuddled with my dog. (like always) anything past a week is a big blur, 2 years feels like a day ago, two days feels like 10 years.
anything past a week or two is like a "color your own slide show", if you feed me information I might be able to paint a vague picture of the event, but I won't actually remember the event, I would just have some details of the event and be able to say "ah yes we did do that didn't we?" (note the ? we might not have done that :) I'm not sure)
@@svampebob007 that's because OP is 5
This was very cool, even from television land, but I know I would’ve felt that movement, no matter how slow, smooth, small, or silent. I can feel even just a three story apartment building sway on a windy day and I get motion sickness and very dizzy high up in taller buildings. I probably wouldn’t have connected the movement I felt with the illusion, but I would’ve felt it, and I’m sure some people did feel it.
But, with the bass from the loud music... that could be enough to trick your brain into not feeling the motion.
Or maybe not!
3:12 - Once the curtain is raised, the platform moves back to the main position. The Port Authority turn on the lights to the statue and the circle of lights and it is back.
There was no rotating platform. The trick is simpler.
@@goaforce2920 I like how people who think they know how illusions are done, write a one line sentence with no detail, but all boasting. If you know, say. You are not a member of Magic Circle like me I presume, and I just use my experience of magic to try and help people understand how some of these classic illusions were done. Maybe you should try the same.
😂 those people sound like the paid actors on commercials they ask for their opinion on a product