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* The Sega Genesis version of ''{{Ghostbusters}}'' uses a variant of this: the newspaper simply fades in, but the effect is the same. The headline is always "GHOST COPS BUST ___ STREET SPOOK."

* Played straight in ''Film/TheTalkOfTheTown'', when it's used repeatedly for transitions, exposition, and montage. Spinning papers appear when Leopold Dilg (wrongfully accused of arson and murder) escapes, after he's caught, and when he's freed.

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%%* SpinningPaper was a standard trope of early 1930s "B" movies, especially in films dealing with organized crime. It went out of style at around the time UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode was adopted; any use after about 1936 is usually a deliberate invocation of the trope as tribute or parody. These deliberate invocations include ''Angels with Dirty Faces'' (1938), ''Film/CitizenKane'' (1941), and ''Film/SinginInTheRain'' (1952). The last film used the audience's memory of the SpinningPaper trope to add to the nostalgic feel of the movie.

* Played straight in the BBC production of ''Ballet Shoes'', with spinning theater posters.

* Played straight, but without spinning, in the first ''{{Film/Spider-Man}}'' movie.

* Played straight in ''{{VideoGame/Jazzpunk}}'', although the resulting headline is remarking on how uneventful the day is
** "[[{{MundaneMadeAwesome}} An uneventful day seizes the nation!]]"

* Spoofed in Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer's failed pilot ''The Weekenders'', where Vic's character spots a newspaper ad saying 'Meat Festival' and mimics this effect by ''spinning the whole table like a lottery wheel''.

* Done humorously in the ShirleyMacLaine film ''What a Way to Go'', when successive spinning ''Variety'' headlines become more and more tongue-twisting and ridiculous, some having every word [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal start with the same letter]].

* Lampshaded to death in British children's comedy series ''RogerAndTheRottentrolls''. When a new Rottentroll Prime Minister is elected, the newspapers are nailed to a wall and Yockenthwaite is seen spinning them by hand.

* Played straight in ''{{VideoGame/Jazzpunk}}'', although the resulting headline is remarking on how uneventful the day is.

* Played straight in ''TheToxicAvenger''

* The definitive parody of the Spinning Paper trope is in ''TheLastRemakeOfBeauGeste'' when a spinning newspaper is delivered to the Geste family's doorstep, and the paper continues spinning even as butler Creator/SpikeMilligan attempts to pick it up. He has to keep circling around the spinning newspaper so that he can read the headline.

* Happens towards the end of ''Film/{{Chaplin}} (1992)''.

* Used and played straight in TimBurton's ''Film/{{Batman}}''

* SpinningPaper was a standard trope of early 1930s "B" movies, especially in films dealing with organized crime. It went out of style at around the time UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode was adopted; any use after about 1936 is usually a deliberate invocation of the trope as tribute or parody. These deliberate invocations include ''Angels with Dirty Faces'' (1938), ''Film/CitizenKane'' (1941), and ''Film/SinginInTheRain'' (1952). The last film used the audience's memory of the SpinningPaper trope to add to the nostalgic feel of the movie.

** [[CrowningMomentOfFunny The best one]]: "Death Wins Indy 5000: 'I Didn't Know I Could Run That Fast'"
* Spoofed in the film ''{{Airplane}}!'', where two newspaper headlines are about the eponymous plane that is doomed to crash, and [[TheTriple a third]] is about a child who ate his own foot.
** In the next shot, there's a spinning TV which cuts to a news broadcast.
** The sequel had third one about a man who undergoes sex change surgery and marries him-(her?)-self.

* Done humorously in the ShirleyMacLaine film ''WhatAWayToGo'', when successive spinning paper headlines of Variety become more and more tongue-twisting and ridiculous, some having every word start with the same letter.

* [[Film/HarryPotter The movie version]] of ''HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix'' features a series of dynamic and quite visually impressive Spinning Paper-esque headline montages, as well as using the moving pictures in the paper (''Magic'', people!) to transition smoothly from scene to scene.

* A {{Superman}} themed ''SaturdayNightLive'' sketch ended with the newspaper headline "Earth Destroyed! All that's left, printing press, guys to run it."
** Also appears in the very first SNL episode, as part of a short film by AlbertBrooks.

* SpinningPaper was a standard trope of early 1930s "B" movies, especially in films dealing with organized crime. It went out of style at around the time the HaysCode was adopted; any use after about 1936 is usually a deliberate invocation of the trope as tribute or parody. These deliberate invocations include ''Angels with Dirty Faces'' (1938), ''Film/CitizenKane'' (1941), and ''Film/SinginInTheRain'' (1952). The last film used the audience's memory of the SpinningPaper trope to add to the nostalgic feel of the movie.
* A similar trope was used by Creator/CharlieChaplin in ''TheGreatDictator'' (1940), where papers coming off the press are used in the same way. This later became a popular FilmNoir trope.

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* In ''StarWreck 6'', a very popular Finnish hobbyist-produced sci-fi parody film, newspapers headlines following P-Fleet's conquest of the world are shown in this manner within an old-style propaganda film within the show.