History Main / SplitScreen

* Used extensively in the documentary about ''WoodStock''.

* Used in ''Manga/{{Golgo 13}}'', mainly in ''[[TheMovie The Professional]]'', ''[[{{OVA}} Queen Bee]]'', and the anime series.

* ''Series/{{Coupling}}'' and ''MalcolmInTheMiddle'' have both had episodes using SplitScreen throughout, bar framing sequences at the beginning and end.

* It was a recurring element in ''That70sShow''.

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* Often used in ''{{Tamayura}}'' to show the actions that the [[FourGirlEnsemble Fuu, Kaoru, Norie and Maon]] do simultaneously together. Usually it's [[FoodPorn them eating and their reactions to food]], but once it was them drawing faces on their TeruTeruBozu dolls.

* ''{{Spooks}}'' and ''[[Series/TwentyFour 24]]'' both had this effect as a signature of their styles.
* ''CSIMiami'' has started using those for lab sequences.
* ''{{Coupling}}'' and ''MalcolmInTheMiddle'' have both had episodes using SplitScreen throughout, bar framing sequences at the beginning and end.
* {{Sanctuary}} uses this quite frequently to compress sequences instead of using a {{montage}}. The split-screen method is somewhat similar to that used in Ang Lee's ''[[TheIncredibleHulk Hulk]]'' (mentioned above), which gives these sequences a (possibly unintentional) comic book vibe.

* Split screen is used in ''DannyPhantom'' episode "Identity Crisis" where Danny, having split himself--one fun, one super--goes about their given tasks at the same time.

* Parodied in ''SledgeHammer'', when Hammer has ring a pipe-smoking British cop for information; the cloud of smoke spills into the American half of the split screen from six thousand miles away [[note]]It's never explicitly said which city would accept Hammer as a cop; but even to Brits the location filming can only be in California[[/note]]. This leads to Hammer and Doreau coughing and spluttering uncontrollably.

* ''Series/TheAmazingRace'' started using split screens in season 14 to seg between scenes.

** ''DoctorWho'' had been using chroma-keying for special effects since at least 1970, so the technology wasn't exactly ''that'' exotic!

* ''Film/LolaRennt'' did these not only for SplitScreenPhoneCall, but also to capture plot critical parallel actions. These also served as extended wipes, with Lola's split screen appearing from screen right, then later wiping all the way across to the left.

* Used brilliantly in ''RequiemForADream'' in a love scene between Marion and Harry.

* In the whole movie ''Film/Timecode'', the screen is split into four parts, representing four 90-minute simultaneous takes.

* Taken to a comical level of absurdity at the end of Film/TheLastRemakeOfBeauGeste, when Beau and Digby Geste [[spoiler:do their PinkySwear grip, over a distance of hundreds of miles, while cuddled up with their respective lovers - Digby and Isabel on the lawn of their BigFancyHouse, and Beau and Flavia on the beach at the French Riviera.]]

This way, you have your cake and eat it too: You can have your explosion and the reactions to it all in one shot, or you can see both sides of a [[SplitScreenPhoneCall telephone conversation.]] Alternatively, you can use it to show only loosely related events that happen to be going on at the same time, such as in 24 or the ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4'' example below.

It's also [[SeenItAMillionTimes a very common device]] in multiplayer console video games, particularly first or third person shooters, allowing each player to get their own view. ''VideoGame/GoldenEye1997'' on the Nintendo64 was one of the earlier and most successful implementations of this in a genre which, up to then, had relied mostly on linked systems for multiplayer.

Oftentimes, a director or writer will have a scene in mind, say a dialog, or a big event, where there's two or more important points he wants to get across at the same time, but unfortunately, are happening in two different places, or at such an angle that you can't get both at once. One solution is to just alternate between showing the two, while another is simply to use a SplitScreen to show both at the same time.

* Director BrianDePalma uses split screens in many of his movies( ''Film/{{Sisters}}'', ''Film/{{Carrie 1976}}'', ''Film/PhantomOfTheParadise''.)

* {{Lampshaded}} in ''{{Airplane}} 2: The Sequel''. When President Reagan is talking to the Commissioner, he says to go SplitScreen (and it does).
* Director BrianDePalma uses split screens in many of his movies( ''Film/{{Sisters}}'', ''{{Carrie}}'', ''PhantomOfTheParadise''.)

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* In ''JackieBrown'', split screen is used when [[spoiler:Jackie (Pam Grier) steals a gun from Max's (Robert Forster) car in order to protect herself from Ordell (Samuel L. Jackson). The split screen shows that Max discovers that his gun is missing from the glove compartment at the same moment that Jackie uses it to threaten Ordell.]] Jim Smith's book ''Tarantino'' (Virgin Film Guides) describes this as "a non-gimmicky and entirely story appropriate use of split screen - which might be a first".
* Ang Lee's ''[[TheIncredibleHulk Hulk]]'' went into split screen on several occasions in an attempt to mimic the style of the comic books the movie was based on.