Spinning Rings Illusion

With a cardboard tube and some thread, Rob shows how to create the "spinning rings" illusion.

[@PhantomFilmAustralia]

When I saw this as a kid 40 years ago, my first thought was Superman. 😂

[@attilajuhasz2526]

Same here!

[@michaelslee4336]

Ruckles. I’m a kid from the early 70s and this was without a shadow of a doubt my favourite show hands down. I learned something new today, the word ruckles. Thanks Rob.

[@mrkitty777]

Superman 1 uses this

[@zephyrsonzephyrson8618]

Every time i see this or anything like it, Superman The Movie is the first and only thing I think of. Lol. 😎✌

[@richardhansen1289]

thank you for consistently uploading some of the most informative and interesting videos I have seen on youtube, it’s really fun to see all these videos as if it were their first time being released

[@CuriosityShow]

Glad you like them

[@binaryagenda]

I remember this episode from when I was a kid. Thanks for the upload!

[@chuckw4680]

Kind of reminds of the illusion where there's a large faucet head suspended high off the ground, not connected to anything, yet continuously flowing water out and down to a barrel. I saw this at the mall as a kid in the 80s and was completely mystified.

[@CuriosityShow]

Yes, it is the same thing - Rob

[@stellamcwick8455]

I’m beginning to think there is nothing these two couldn’t do with sticky tape.

[@SaturnCanuck]

That was awesome. Just like in Superman The Movie

[@Rand1er]

"I'm making rather a pig's breakfast of all of that ...". Classic Rob! 👌

[@tinderbox218]

This had a real nice effect in the end but I can't imagine a kid going through all that complicated setup successfully lol

[@89horizon]

Try it on all your spun-out friends!

[@HxTurtle]

0:32 "it's an illusion," Rob says. recently hired cutter, "I'll help demonstrating this by adding the best effect I can cook up."

[@smadaf]

In this context, what is a cutter? Is it particular to Australia?

[@HxTurtle]

@@smadaf great question! I didn't mean to refer to a box cutter but a film editor. English isn't my first language and I use words from all over the place that I once picked up somewhere and spring into mind first, lol.

[@smadaf]

@@HxTurtle, ah, interesting. What is your first language?

[@HxTurtle]

@@smadaf it's German; the language I saw this show originally in when I was a child. in school, I was thought British English, later on married an American and lived in Canada-I'm a linguistic hodgepodge with a thick German accent 🤣 (my glottal stop alone makes me sound aggressive-took me a while to figure, though 😂)

[@smadaf]

@@HxTurtle, I love your reply! There are so many little points of overlap between you and me, just in what you wrote. I'm American. Before I was three, my parents learned German, because we moved soon afterward to West Germany, where we lived about two years. One of the first places we visited when we moved back to the United States was Quebec, the origin of my maternal grandmother (who immigrated to the U.S.), where I got to know more of my French-Canadian relatives. I later became a Britannophile (especially an Anglophile)-and then, in my teens, got to live in England for four years (during which I also finally began formally learning French and went to school with many Americans and some Canadians, and visited Germany some more). And I first got to know Curiosity Show last year: one of my Austrian friends of many years, who lives in Sweden and is raising quadulingual children (German, Greek, Swedish, and English!), had visited a Swedish beach where there was "singing sand", of which she showed me her own video; this was completely new to me, and she then remembered an explanation that she had seen on TV as a child (dubbed in German, on Austrian television), searched for a clip on KZbin, and sent me a link to the English-language Curiosity Show segment about singing sand-at which point I was hooked on this channel. I envy you your facility in English. My French and German have been fading for years-but I still enjoy putting in a good German glottal stop in such words as "Koordinierung"! And I love how Curiosity Show brings together people from all around the world.

[@jamesgoodman9560]

God bless sticky tape! Oh, and Plasticine😂

[@MarkMcCluney]

Very good but didn't we have this one before? Or something very similar?

[@CuriosityShow]

It is on one of our 3 DVDs

[@smadaf]

On this channel for a long time there was another upload of the same video, or a similar video showing how to make the same thing. I just tried searching the channel so I could get you the link to the old video (which KZbin has recommended to me countless times)-but it seems to be gone. With the way KZbin works, it seems to be more or less necessary for Curiosity Show to upload the same clips again after some months or years, to maintain prominence. To me the re-uploads were unfortunate, because they split the comments that were about the same content across the webpages of more than one upload of that content; but I thought it was understandable, because of the desire to put up 'new' videos every week to maintain the prominence. However, if the old uploads are now being deleted, I think that's terribly unfortunate-because with them go all the old comments, some of which are worth other people's while. . . . I've also just searched the titles of all the videos publicly available on this channel, for "ring", "spin", and "illusion". It really does look as if the old upload were gone or hidden.