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A [[Hard Cut|cut]] or [[Dissolve]] that matches an object in the first shot with an object in the second shot. The objects must be similar in size and position within the shot. Can be used to add harmony and continuity to a sudden shift in time or place.
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== Advertising ==
* A Coca-Cola commercial advertising how its containers are recycled has several instances of people pitching empty bottles juxtaposed with filled ones coming out of vending machine. To hammer this juxtaposition home, one bottle is only partially in the recycle bin, resulting in a bottle stuck in the vending machine until the first one is pushed down.▼
== Anime and Manga ==
* The opening credits for ''[[Baccano!]]'' did this for (in order) a wad of bills, some bottles, a thrown dart (matched with a knife), an explosion (matched with exploding flash powder), and a playing card.
** ''[[Durarara!!]]'', by the same studio and author, does much the same, only with more modern objects such as a cellphone, vending machine, and soda can.
*** The second opening has some rather creative ones such as a ladle to a street mirror, and [[Scary Shiny Glasses]] to the ''moon''.
* ''[[Fushigi Yuugi]]'' does a rather nice one too. Miaka briefly imagines a benign, smiling Tamahome; the image then fades into [[Brainwashed and Crazy|evil]] Tamahome, whose facial expression makes him look very different as he finishes up shredding his letter to Miaka.
* The opening for the second season of ''[[Spice and Wolf]]'' matches leaves flying in the wind to feathers floating in a room.
* In ''[[One Piece]]'', after Luffy successfully obtains Franky's speedo, we see a shot of the Gally-La Company flag waving triumphantly in the background, then a shot of Luffy triumphantly holding up the speedo.
== Comic Books ==
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* ''[[The Killing Joke]]'' also pulls this off: the flashback sequences that depict the Joker's origin story have a tendency of cutting into the current situation with one of these. It's really effective in creating a sequential atmosphere. Just call it an [[Alan Moore]] thing.
* The most recognizable
▲* The most recognizable [[Match Cut]] might be from the opening of ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey]]''. A bone tossed into the air by a primitive hominid is matched with a satellite in orbit over 21st century Earth. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML1OZCHixR0#t=6m50s Here].
** Parodied in ''[[Startopia]]'', where the bone and the satellite are replaced by a...donut and a donut-shaped space station. Where does a hominid get a donut, you ask me? Why, from a massive, black, featureless, monolithic [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|donut dispenser]]. Duh.
** Parodied in ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'', where the satellite changes right back into a bone and hits the caveman on the head.
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*** As with the studio logos (such as [[Twentieth Century Fox]] and [[Universal]]) at the very beginning of some movies.
* This concept was pioneered by ''[[Citizen Kane]]''. The entire opening sequence is one long, dissolving match cut. The intro consists of several shots of Kane's mansion Xanadu from different angles dissolving into each other. Only one of the windows is illuminated, and despite the many different camera angles, it remains in the same location in the frame.
* In ''[[Lawrence of Arabia]]'', the titular hero blows out a
* The first ''[[Spider-Man (film)|Spider-Man]]'' movie Match Cuts from the Green Goblin blowing a building up with his glider to high school graduation (by way of debris to mortarboards, okay?).
* ''[[Max Payne (film)|Max Payne]]'' uses this particular technique with the main character: a scene ends showing a flashback three years in the past, and as the camera revolves around Max, the scene slowly changes to the much darker present time, until we've gone from looking over his shoulder, around him to his face, and back over his shoulder again.
* ''[[The Fall (film)|The Fall]]'' has some particularly beautiful examples, including a butterfly fading into a reef and island, and a priest's face and collar fading into a desert landscape.
* In ''[[National Treasure]]: Book of Secrets'', there is a dissolve from the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral in London to the Capitol Dome in Washington D.C. The west towers of St. Paul's are also matched by a similar-looking pair of towers in Washington, though it's not clear if they were added in CGI.
* The opening scene of ''[[Jurassic Park|The Lost World: Jurassic Park]]'' cuts from a woman on a tropical island shrieking to Jeff Goldblum yawning in front of a picture of a tropical island.
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** Hitchcock's 1935 version of ''[[The Thirty-Nine Steps|The 39 Steps]]'' features a ''sound'' match cut; Hannay's landlady screams upon discovering Miss Smith's dead body, and the picture cuts to a train coming out of a tunnel while the scream dissolves into the sound of the train's whistle.
* [[Subverted]] in ''[[Idiocracy]]'' as it was a pile of garbage the whole time, but at first, when the sun is behind it, it looks like a mountain. This trope applies because the "mountain" is in tune with the world as we know it, while the revelation that it's actually garbage is there to show us just how bad the world gets.
* Creepy example in ''[[Star Trek: Insurrection]]''. Picard is wrestling with his conscience over what to do as the Federation has teamed up with some unpleasant aliens who are stealing some innocents' special planet that will let them live
* Frequently used in the first half of the 1967 film version of Truman Capote's ''In Cold Blood'' as we cut back and forth between the killers and their pursuers.
* ''[[Layer Cake]]'' uses frequent match cuts, but most notably to [[Book Ends|book end]] the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=1PrkPicfqTA assassination sequence] with a [[Kubrick Stare]].
▲== Film - Animated ==
* The opening sequence in Disney's ''[[Tarzan]]'' contains many in a row, cutting between the human and gorilla family to show their similarities. The final one features the sun in an [[Establishing Shot]] matching with one of the eyes in a close-up of a leopard; the other eye matches the moon in the next shot.
* [[Treasure Planet]]'s scene "I'm Still Here" has this with Jim looking to the ship's skyline into the Benbow Inn's windows, and then [[Time Skip]] from his flashback to present. Another part was after Jim looked at Silver as his longboat descended, the sun below the galleon matches the morning sun before his dad left.
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* During the song "A Girl Worth Fighting For" from ''[[Mulan]]'', part of a dream sequence seen about halfway through the song actually turns into a Mount Rushmoresque-rock sculpture seen in the background.
* At the end of ''[[The Little Mermaid]]'', when Ariel and Eric kiss after former has been turned back into a human, Ariel's [[Magic Pants|sparkly dress]] and Eric's sailor suit actually turn into [[Giant Poofy Sleeves|a wedding dress]] and a royal admiral suit when we see their wedding, respectively.
* A dream sequence in ''[[Cinderella (Disney film)|Cinderella II]]'' has the figurines on [[Heel Face Turn|Anastasia's]] music box morph into Anastasia and the baker.
* At the very beginning of ''[[Finding Nemo]]'', just right after Marlin finds out that his son Nemo's egg is the only egg that had survived the barracuda attack (though with a large crack in the eggshell), the scene immediately cuts from the egg to the sun reflected in the water, leading to the film's opening credits (and Nemo himself already hatched from the egg).
* There's at least one in ''[[Cars]]'', when Lightning McQueen agrees to accompany Mater on some unspecified trip, then cutting to Lighting at night in the field, as the tractor-tipping scene begins.
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* Happens several times in the song "Worthless" near the end of ''[[The Brave Little Toaster]]'', when they cut from the junkyard to the Master's house. At one point, the Car Crusher's blades turn into the TV, and another point a crushed cube turns into the TV again.
▲== Live Action TV ==
* The end of the ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'' episode "Take Me Out To The Holosuite" has an instance, probably parodying the ''2001'' example, with a thrown baseball matching the station.
* This is very common in ''[[Ugly Betty]]'', which gets away with it because of the slightly bizarre (i.e. stylish) design of the sets - weird objects intruding into frame to become odd shapes in the next shot don't seem at all out of place when all the windows in the office are circular.
* The intro to ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'' has a scene in which the head of a Wraith is cut to a view of the main Tower of the City of Atlantis ... which has the same size as the head, the same general direction of movement and, to top it all, two lightened windows where the eyes of the Wraith were.
* The opening credits in ''[[The Wire]]'' utilise this technique.
* In the ''[[Alias (TV series)|Alias]]'' [[Pilot Episode]] "Truth Be Told", Sydney is tied to a chair, watching a door that is about to open and reveal her torturer. Cut to another door opening and her literature professor walking into a classroom, months before the previous scene.
* Used in season 5 of ''[[Doctor Who]]''. ''Vampires of Venice'' has a [[Cold Open]] where a screaming girl is about to be attacked by a vampire, then cuts to a screaming Rory at his stag party shouting into the phone.
* Done more than a few times in ''[[Spaced]]'', including a reference to the famous ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey]]'' Match Cut - a rolled-up newspaper thrown into the air becomes a model of a spaceship in the comics shop.
* In one episode of ''[[The George Lopez Show]]'' during a flashback George [[Uncanny Valley|as a child]] gets jealous of Benny's boyfriend and has a smuggish look on his face. It then goes to the present and George has that same smuggish look.
== Music ==
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* On [[The Beatles]]' ''Sgt Pepper'' album, the sound of a cock crowing at the end of "Good Morning, Good Morning" cuts to a similar-sounding guitar chord at the start of "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Reprise".
** The stereo mix cuts the two sounds together seamlessly. On the mono version (only released on CD in 2009) there's a split-second pause.
* In the [[David Bowie]] video "As the World Falls Down" (from the film [[Labyrinth]]), the female protagonist is staring at a photograph of Bowie. The camera zooms in on her left eye. A blink, and now it's Bowie's left eye (with its permanently dilated pupil) the viewer sees as the camera pulls back.
* In the amazing black-and-white [[Touhou Project|Bad Apple!]] music video, nearly every transition is a match cut. Pens turning into wings, flames turning into distant sunlight, girl running turning into girl diving, etc. It's probably the best part of the video. Most other videos will attempt to emulate this changing. (For example, the infamous printed-out screenshots homage video uses match cuts to, say, jump from room to room.)
== Tabletop Games ==
* The "flip" and newer "transform" cards from ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' often imitate this effect. For examples, see Tormented Pariah and Gatstaf Shepherd.
== Theatre ==
* ''[[City of Angels (musical)|City of Angels]]'' does this several times when transitioning out of the [[Show Within a Show]]. Mallory undoing Stone's tie segues to Donna tying Stine's tie; Irwin S. Irving's body on a gurney segues to Buddy on a massage table; and Oolie getting into bed segues to Stine lying in bed with Donna.
== Video Games ==
* In the introduction of ''[[Space Quest|Space Quest VI]]'', a jockstrap thrown up into the air in a parody of ''2001'' transitions to a jockstrap-shaped spaceship.
* The first scene of ''[[Xenogears]]'' after the intro shows a village in flames, and then it cuts to an abstract painting of flames that Fei, the protagonist, is working on.
== Western Animation ==
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* Occurs in ''[[101 Dalmatians|101 Dalmatians: The Series]]'' in the first episode. After Roger announces that they're moving from their home in the city to the country, Lucky says, "Let me make myself perfectly clear: We. Are not. Moving." and we see a closeup of his angry face. The scene dissolves into Lucky on the Dalmatian bus with everyone else, still with the same face.
* At the end of [[Pixar Shorts|''Tokyo Mater'']] when Kabuto finds out that he had lost the race to [[Tokyo Tower]] to [[Cars|Mater]], the scene immediately cuts to Kabuto having all of his modifications being pulled off his body and being laughed at by the other cars.
== Web Comics ==
* ''[[Kiwi Blitz
* Interestingly done with a still-image [[Web Comic]] on [[Deviant ART]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20150524173902/http://jediannsolo.deviantart.com/art/AGENCY-DAY-2-pg25-155686588
* [http://egscomics.com/?date=2011-04-28 This] strip of ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' features a cut from Noah punching a dragon to Greg punching a fire monster. Their poses are continuous rather than identical to create the illusion of movement along with the scene change.
* In [http://yuumei.deviantart.com/art/Knite-Chapter-2-167389351 this] chapter of the [[Deviant ART]] flash comic Knite, this is used once or twice while Sen is recounting the past to his friends.
== Web Original ==
* The ''[[GURPS]] [[Discworld]]'' fansite [http://www.byenighte.com/ Discworld Bye Nighte]. The "title page" for every section has a circle (usually the sun) in the upper left and a tall structure on the right. Clicking through them, you can see the Tower of Art dissolve into the Diamond Castle in Genua, Don'tgonearthe Castle in [[
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* Rene Magritte's painting ''[
▲* The ''[[GURPS]] [[Discworld]]'' fansite [http://www.byenighte.com/ Discworld Bye Nighte]. The "title page" for every section has a circle (usually the sun) in the upper left and a tall structure on the right. Clicking through them, you can see the Tower of Art dissolve into the Diamond Castle in Genua, Don'tgonearthe Castle in [[Uberwald]] (with the sun becoming a full moon), a volcanic island, and so on. The "Bye the Waye" section even has the three main components labeled: "Circle", "Peaks" and "Horizon".
▲* Rene Magritte's painting ''[http://picasaweb.google.com/bnagya/EpreskertKintEsBent#5459998752619898290 Euclidean Promenades]'' depicts an upper-storey view of a town in which the shape of a conical spire is exactly matched by the shape of a road receding in perspective to the horizon.
▲* A Coca-Cola commercial advertising how its containers are recycled has several instances of people pitching empty bottles juxtaposed with filled ones coming out of vending machine. To hammer this juxtaposition home, one bottle is only partially in the recycle bin, resulting in a bottle stuck in the vending machine until the first one is pushed down.
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