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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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== Film - Live Action ==
* The most recognizable
** 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.
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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]].
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