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Compare to [[Match Cut]] and [[Gilligan Cut]].

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* Parodied/Tributed in a [[Netflix]] instant streaming commercial. A girl from a stereotypical 1940's movie musical family manages to imagine a Wii Remote into her hand. Her arm's position between the two cuts is deliberately off, to provide a corny old-school look.

 

* Accidentally developed by pioneering filmmaker George Méliès in 1896, making this [[Older Than Radio]] (and the Ur Special Effect as well). According to the story, Méliès was filming a street when the camera jammed, and had to stop filming to fix it. Watching the footage, he saw a streetcar suddenly turn into a hearse at the point the camera stopped. Used extensively in his groundbreaking ''[[A Trip to the Moon]]''.

** A century later, directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris used the same technique for [[The Smashing Pumpkins]]' video "Tonight, Tonight", which was an homage to Méliès' film.

* Similarly done in the film version of ''[[Bewitched (film)|Bewitched]]'', where we see the trick done from 'behind the scenes'.

* In Aleksandr Ptushko's film ''[[Sadko]]'' (''The Magic Voyage of Sinbad'' to ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000|MST3K]]'' fans), the elderly yet wily Trifon persuades Sadko to take him on his voyage by blowing on an egg in the palm of his hand and turning it into a bird. The effect is somewhat diminished by the use of a Stop Trick to achieve this change.

 

* Used on every episode of ''[[The Monkees]]'', generally accompanied by a 'pop' or 'boink' noise.

* Used a lot on ''[[Bewitched]]'': Samantha would twitch her nose and "Fwing" something would change. Sometimes it would involve Samantha flinging up her arms instead of twitching. Elizabeth Montgomery would have to stand completely still with her arms sticking straight up while the set was adjusted. Not an easy task to say the least. Eventually, the producers came up with a special brace to aid her.

* This was used on ''[[Mister Rogers' Neighborhood]]'' pretty extensively, as when Lady Elaine used her boomerang to turn things upside down or Purple Panda travelling "The Purple Way".

* In ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]'', GOB makes use of this very ineptly to perform illusions in a Bluth Company video. Due to him paying no attention to what was happening behind him, the cuts are obvious.

 

* Used in Adarah's ''[[Ultimate Utopia XXIII]]'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNzFE8rNPQU parody video], to make slaves appear. Strangely though, they do have access to more advanced special effects techniques.

* ''[[Quantum Leap]]'', whenever hologram Al appeared or disappeared.

 

* Ghosts in ''[[Filmation's Ghostbusters|Filmations Ghostbusters]]'' would appear and disappear in this manner.

* ''[[Welcome To Pooh Corner]]'' and ''[[Dumbos Circus]]'' are two shows (which continued to be rerun until the channel's relaunch) from The (old) Disney Channel that regularly did this for various special effects.