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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'' and Fiona riding off in their Onion Coach turns into a drawing with "... And they lived ugly ever after" as the last page of the fairy tale story.

* At one point in ''Anime/{{Tekkonkinkreet}}'' an aerial shot of Treasure City dissolves into a map of said location at the yakuza's office.

SisterTrope to IdiosyncraticWipes, and can be combined with {{Flashback}}. Compare AgeCut, MatchCut, MediumBlending, and ThisIsWhatTheBuildingWillLookLike. See also PastelChalkedFreezeFrame. Not to be confused with PortalPicture.

* Film/LumiereFilms: According to Creator/GeorgesMelies, this trope is as old as film screenings themselves. He reported that when he went to his first Lumière screening, it began with a still image like a projected slide, and he was just complaining to his neighbor that this was nothing new—when suddenly, to everyone's amazement, the image to life.

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* Examples where an ArtisticTitle fades into the live-action equivalent are so common we may as well list them all here:

* Film/LumiereFilms: According to Creator/GeorgesMelies, this trope is as old as film screenings themselves. He reported that when he went to his first Lumière screening, it began with a still image like a projected slide, and he was just complaining to his neighbor that this was nothing new?when suddenly, to everyone's amazement, the image to life.

** ''Film/SeventeenSeventySix'': The movie's final shot melts slowly into a version on canvas, recalling the various paintings of the moment as seen in history books. The inscribed Declaration itself also gradually burns through.

** ''Film/SeventeenSeventySix'': The movie's final shot melts slowly into a version on canvas, recalling the various paintings of the moment as seen in history books. The inscribed Declaration itself also gradually burns through.

* Film/LumiereFilms: According to Creator/GeorgesMelies, this trope is as old as film screenings themselves. He reported that when he went to his first Lumière screening, it began with a still image like a projected slide, and he was just complaining to his neighbor that this was nothing new?when suddenly, to everyone's amazement, the image to life.
* An early example can be seen in the 1933 movie ''Film/HeroesForSale'' where a scene transitions from a newspaper photograph to the real location at a laundromat.
* In the Creator/LaurenceOlivier adaptation of ''[[Film/HenryV1944 Henry V]]'', the filmed-play opening scenes give way to the more cinematic rest of the movie when a painted background transitions to an actual background.

* The 2004 movie version of ''Theatre/ThePhantomOftheOpera'' has this at the beginning and the end of the movie -- probably an example of BookEnds as well.
* ''Film/SkyHigh2005'' has this in the opening credits. Will's narration explains his life, and is shown in comic book pages. The panel focuses on the Stronghold house, then dissolves into the live-action image of the house. The ending changes a live shot of Will and friends to a comic panel of them.
* The Director's Cut of ''Film/TheWarriors'' features several instances of freeze frames which turn into comic book panels.

* In ''Film/KingsmanTheSecretService'', a black & white headshot of some girl that the three remaining candidates have to seduce transitions into a color live-action scene with said girl. Watch it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGko_VdS9G0 here]].
* ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull'': The Paramount logo turns into a prairie dog mound, which is then run over by a car.

** ''Film/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland1972'': A pencil sketch of a river becomes the river.

** ''Film/AlicesAdventuresinWonderland1972'': A pencil sketch of a river becomes the river.

* Film/LumiereFilms: According to Creator/GeorgesMéliès, this trope is as old as film screenings themselves. He reported that when he went to his first Lumière screening, it began with a still image like a projected slide, and he was just complaining to his neighbor that this was nothing new?when suddenly, to everyone's amazement, the image to life.

A SceneTransition trope. A character (or the audience) is looking at a pictorial rendering of a location or scene. The camera lingers on the image, and then the scene transition happens -- the photo {{dissolve}}s into a view of the spot identical in arrangement to the photo, painting or drawing from the previous scene.

Common parodies, tweaks and variations to the trope result in the real location looking much worse than the image, or being dilapidated from neglect.

SisterTrope to IdiosyncraticWipes, and can be combined with {{Flashback}}. Compare AgeCut, MatchCut, and ThisIsWhatTheBuildingWillLookLike. See also PastelChalkedFreezeFrame. Not to be confused with PortalPicture.

SisterTrope to IdiosyncraticWipes, and can be combined with {{Flashback}}. Compare AgeCut, MatchCut, and ThisIsWhatTheBuildingWillLookLike. See also PastelChalkedFreezeFrame.

** This happens when Marge looks at the painting above the family's couch in order to get inspiriation for a book to write.

** Also subverted when Homer tries to construct a grill. Lacking the manual, he tries to build it without it, and seems to get off to a bad start. The scene cuts to the completed grill.

* ''Film/SkyHigh2005'' has this in the opening credits. Will's narration explains his life, and is shown in comic book pages. The panel focuses on the Stronghold house, then dissolves into the live-action image of the house.

* In the Creator/LaurenceOlivier adaptation of ''[[Film/HenryV1944]]'', the filmed-play opening scenes give way to the more cinematic rest of the movie when a painted background transitions to an actual background.

* In the Creator/LaurenceOlivier adaptation of ''Theatre/HenryV'', the filmed-play opening scenes give way to the more cinematic rest of the movie when a painted background transitions to an actual background.

SisterTrope to IdiosyncraticWipes, and can be combined with {{Flashback}}. Compare MatchCut, ThisIsWhatTheBuildingWillLookLike. See also PastelChalkedFreezeFrame.

* ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRings The Return of the King]]'' uses the reverse version, where the camera pulls away from the city of Minas Tirith and the picture slowly fades into a drawing of the city on a map. The camera then pans across the map to represent the characters' return journey.

* Done in reverse in ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRings The Two Towers]]'', where film footage transitions into gameplay footage at the beginning of each stage.

[[folder:Western Animation]]

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** ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast'' has the ball celebrating the breaking of the curse. The scene transitions to a stained glass window rendering (no cameras — it was the 1700s).

** ''Disney/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'' has several, going from grayscale newspaper photos to shots of the action.
** ''Disney/{{Pocahontas}}'' transitions from a woodcut of London Harbor at the time to London Harbor in gloriously rendered colour, zooming in on the Virginia Company ship as it prepares for departure. [[BookEnds It ends with]] a shot of Pocahontas on the cliff, watching John Smith's ship heading back to England, transitioning back into a woodcut.

* In "Perfect Day for Fun" (a short released before ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsRainbowRocks''), there is a zoom on a poster announcing the Rainbooms performing, which transition to the band actually on stage. Inverted with the ending shot, with the group picture zooming out to show it is on the screen of Twilight's phone while the girls are on the ferris wheel.

* ''Series/ThePrisoner1967'' episode "The Girl Who Was Death" is an atypical loopy cliffhanger story - when it breaks for commercials it transitions into illustrations similar to the action, but in an Edwardian style and setting...it turns out these are [[spoiler: illustrations in a storybook Number Six is reading to children.]]

* ''Series/BlakesSeven''. In "Star One", President Servalan is studying the personnel files of a secret Federation base. After a female technician called Lurena is projected on the screen, we cut to Lurena at the base, standing in the same position. [[RefugeeFromTime Unfortunately she's the same age as well.]]

SisterTrope to IdiosyncraticWipes, and can be combined with {{Flashback}}. Compare MatchCut. See also PastelChalkedFreezeFrame.