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this can't be done with a green screen, because the view in the mirror ir smaller than the real one. It can't be a camera or the same book in front of the mirror, because the wiev in the mirror does not change when fliping it. but this could be one way mirror or 2 lens, you can see the bigger one, ant the smaller could be in the back of this thing, and when you flip it the smaller len closes

that is so silly I under stood this is the mirror which is using reflection as there is a opening beneath this mirror so the theory used here is law of reflection and total internal reflection!

1) It's NOT a tiny camera on back of mirror that produces the 'rear-view' image of the books on the mirror because as the mirror starts to turn over we still see the exact image of the books through the mirror not the what the rotating tiny camera would see: the movement up to top of bookshelf toward the ceiling as it rotates. 2) It could be green chroma key surface on the mirror and with video editing software to make the background appear on it but that's too lame and not as fun or mindbending as a true optical trick. 3) A SOLUTION: I reckon it's a real hand-held mirror waved infront of a bookshelf, but we are viewing (through a camera fixed on a tripod) another large mirror's reflection of this scene. It's viewed from an angle so we don't see camera person or video camera in the reflection. There are two identical bookshelves almost facing each other with the hand-held mirror held between: one book shelf (the one we see) is real, the other bookshelf is actually a poster-sized photo of the bookshelf but with the image 'reversed' (everything including writing on books is backwards so it looks correct when viewed through mirror). This reversed bookshelf photo is carefully angled so that its reflection on the hand-held mirror is the same as the background image. That's why the camera is on a tripod as any tiny little jerk or tilt will give the game away. Also the photo image of the bookshelf is a bit 'enlarged' because this photo is a little distance away from the mirror - but it's reflection needs to match the size of the 'real' background image as if the mirror was see-through. The reason I think it is a photo is because the reflection through the mirror looks slightly desaturated in colour, as if the printing of the photo was done through a colour printer.

naa i heard of this..theres actually a camera..lol dey made like a coat like that making it look see through

Thats a neat trick i bet 10 bucks that its the same on the other side 2

most high-end video editing software-like Studio Edition or Adobe Premiere-has options for chroma key. The mirrored surface was just replaced with a green chroma key surface. Wherever the green screen appeared, the off-colored scene appeared.

the glass is tinted with a slight blue tinge thats why it appears slightly blue looking thru it. and if any one noticed that he only flipped it so far then that would be a good indication that it is not real. if it was they would have no proplem in showin all aspects of the trick. eg. old magicians used to say nothing up my sleeve.

Methinks that the image we are viewing is itself in a mirror, with the camera being on the viewers side adjacent to the objects. When the Hand Held Mirror is waved in front of the other mirror, it will show a reflection on one side, and the back of the mirror on the other side. Look forward to you comments. Dan

Mr. Know It is not done the way you say because you see the bend in the back of the mirro indicating that it is really wood, not a seethru mirror as you suggest.. i believe its more of an editing trick or moveable projection that follows the mirror as it moves up and down./..

This is done by using a see-through mirror. Much like the ones cops use. When turned over, the mirror reflects the wood being held in front of it (yet out of the camera view}

Totally asome

who really cares how it's done, they did it, and we're all talkin' about it like a bunch of school girls.

I thnik theres some kinda cmara on the other side and its coloured so it makes it look like its not there.

First of all, i would like to say that it wasn't a mirror with the same thing on the back, or a camera on the back of the mirror, because if it was, the picture on the mirror would bevcome distorted when it gets flipped, if you look very closely you can see that the picture on the mirror has more of a windows effect, rather than a mirror effect, because the picture stays the same while it is getting flipped, so my guess would be the tinted back, or the green screen, most likely the green screen

i know exactley what happened. the same book is right in front of the mirror and when yyou look into the mirror you see the reflection. if you people are so dumb to beleive that was real how stupid

i saw this thing when i was in 6th grade it was in a little school paper assignment and they said that there was gonna be a (green tinted transparent rain coat) and that could be the same technology if im wrong..good luck figurin it up.

the way i see it the guys got a 1 way mirror glass thingy on one side u can see straight throungh and on the other its got a wood finish thing but i might b rong

It's actually a simple trick, completely an optical illusion. Hidden VERY WELL on the back of the mirror is a tiny video camera that records what is behind it. The front of the "mirror" is actually a video screen, which shows what the camera is seeing behind it.

Many ways it could be done, but it looks solid. I'm out of an answer. Looks good to me, and if that mirror's actually real, I'd love to get my hands on one, lol.

i think its like a 1 way mirrorand it looks soild

i am almost positive how its done.. i ve read in some magazine that japanese made the magic cape..u know like harry potter,,they use camera to match the cape w/ the background..so i m pretty sure that the camera is indicating the background and showing it on the screen, or what they call the mirror

it's no trick, it's magic

It's a two way mirror, it's a little tinted that's all.

it's a camera trick magnifing glass until the split shot it and put a regular mirror in place

dudes and dudets this is a simple trick wat it is is theve got the same books the other side as in front so it projects the image as if your looking thrugh it

thats cool how do you do that

call me blond but woah! how did he/ she do that?

it is basically a green screen and the background is actualy a projected picture.

?? does anyone else get this? i am not good with figuring out tricks. maybe it is a different reflection? so confusing for the absent minded

that was cool!

That weird I like to know how they did that?

At first I was amazed, but then I thought about it and now it kind of..sux.

i thinks its completely done with CG thats my opinion im not sure

wow!! now that was cool..but i think its the same on the opposite wall..cool trick tho..

that trick has a simple explanation

we have done this before. the mirror is actually just a solid color. then we take a picture of the same shot and then transpose it on to that color where ever it appears. kind of like the weather man. he just walkisn in front of the color screen and then they put the map on that color.

There is the same thing in the opposite wall u are not actually seeing threw it

that is just flippin amazing.

on the back of the mirror there are receptors which brodcast the back ground on to the screen. they use the same technology in some movies for invisibility.

That was awsome!

tobad there is a camera on the other side or this would be cool

i think i might have my eye checked

is that magic!

http://starcraft-version1.tripod.com/Invisibility-cloak.htm Japanese scientist invents 'invisibility cloak' A Japanese scientist has developed a coat which appears to make the wearer invisible. The illusion was part of a demonstration of optical camouflage technology at Tokyo University. It is the brainchild of Professor Susumu Tachi who is in the early stage of research he hopes will eventually make camouflaged objects virtually transparent.

Maybe like a one way mirror or something..

no clue

i think i might have tyhe slightest idea of how they did that.. im probaly wrong but i think he had a projecter focused on the mirror..it hasd a picture of the stuff behind it..

thats a good 1, but wats hapening is there is another mirror nxt 2 the camera and its refleckting off both the mirrors so that it looks halow

That's easy. Same picture or what ever reversed and behind the guy while the camera is filming at a angle to the mirror. Look at the angle of the mirror when he turns it around. Also look at the left piture and you can see the same little yellow figure also on the bottom right side of the poster in the mirror. Or he could be using a lot of mirrors at different angles. HAHA

This some kind of trick!!