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* As did the film adaptation of ''[[Sin City]]'', in order to re-create all those stylistic comic-book-style angles.

* ''[[Mirror Mask]]'' does the same, in a very ''very'' trippy way.

* The live-action movie of ''[[Speed Racer (film)|Speed Racer]]'' was filmed almost entirely on green screen to give it an anime-style effect.

* The ''[[Star Wars]]'' prequels helped pioneer the idea of minimal set design through Chroma Key.

* At the Walt Disney Studios, [[Ub Iwerks]] developed the sodium vapor process, in which the actors were filmed against a white backdrop lit with powerful sodium lights. A special prism in the camera separated the image and exposed it simultaneously on two different film stocks: regular color film, which did not pick up the sodium light, and black and white film sensitive to sodium light, which created the matte. The process was used for most Disney productions, including ''[[Song of the South]]'', ''[[Mary Poppins]]'' and ''[[The Black Hole]]'', and was also used for ''[[The Birds]]'' and a number of [[Ray Harryhausen]] movies. Although it provided better results than blue screen, and saved time by creating the matte simultaneously with the foreground footage, the process proved too expensive and was discontinued by the 1980s.

* Used a bit in ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]'', as you can see [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_VnHAy1Vdc here].

* As mentioned above, [[Ray Harryhausen]] used the sodium vapor process on a number of his films. For instance, it's used to achieve some of the scale effects in ''The Three Worlds of Gulliver''. More subtly, in ''[[Jason and the Argonauts]]'', in the scene where Jason is talking to Medea at the stern of the ''Argo'', you have to look closely to realize that they were filmed in the studio with location footage of the rest of the ship matted in behind them.

* In ''[[Chitty Chitty Bang Bang]]'', blue screen was obviously used for the [[Flying Car]] scenes. Obvious because [[Special Effects Failure|you can see blue matte lines around the actors in several shots]].

 

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

* ''Drew Carey's Green Screen'' was an improv comedy show that expanded on the green screen antics used on ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway?|Whose Line Is It Anyway]]''.

* E!'s ''[[The Soup]]'' (and its predecessor ''Talk Soup'') is videotaped entirely in front of a green screen. This led to a particularly memorable incident when a guest wore a pair of Italian flag briefs, which made it appear as if a portion of his pelvis was missing.

* Used extensively and to great effect (sometimes) in [[Filmation]]'s ''The Ghost Busters'' for the Ghost Dematerializer visual effects.

* The British version of [[MTV 2]] has a flagship show called Gonzo, consisting entirely of host Zane Lowe sat on a brown couch in front of a blue screen. The show is "as live" and therefore no corrections are made when items like guests' clothing match the background and disappear.

* The Irish political debate show "Tonight with Vincent Browne" uses a ridiculously obvious blue screen. It shines on to the faces of guests or, in the case of the host, gives him a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzVLSn-96tE very strange blue afro.]

* While a lot of the scenes actually were filmed on location, in some of the cosmic calendar and Library of Alexandria scenes in [[Cosmos]], you can see this effect around [[Carl Sagan]]. It's combined with Motion Control to make it look as if he's walking through model sets. Apart from a few full-size props the entire Library of Alexandria is actually a model, and the effect is highly convincing.

* [[The Angry Joe Show|Angry Joe]] uses it as his background.

* [[The Spoony Experiment|The Spoony One]] will bring it out every once in a while for their skits in reviews.

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

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