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[[Split Screen]] is one of those Camera Tricks that were never really popular... except for depicting people calling each other on the telephone, that is.
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Frequently used in comics, usually with a jagged diagonal gutter between two [[Odd
== [[Film]] ==
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* There's one of these in ''[[Snatch]]''. The director's DVD commentary reveals that in order to cut costs the two sides of the phone conversation between Cousin Avi and Doug the Head were shot at separate times on the same physical piece of film - which is why the timing is slightly off.
* ''[[Ruthless People]]'' has this trope twice between Carol and Chief Benton; first discussing to arrest Sam Stone and again after Sam was released from jail.
* Used in ''[[
* Parodied in ''[[
* Two times in ''[[When Harry Met Sally...]]'':
** Sally calls Harry one night and the two of them chat while watching "Casablanca". The split-screen is set up so that they're each in their own bedroom, in their own bed, but it looks like they're sharing a bed.
** A three-way set-up has [[Beta Couple|Jess and Marie]] in bed together when Harry calls Jess and Sally calls Marie. When Harry and Sally tell their respective friends that they had sex the night before, Jess and Marie turn to each other and say in unison, "They did it!"
* Parodied in ''[[Austin Powers]]'' when a normal split-screen call keeps adding new elements until there are eight split-screens and the original caller has moved on to something else.
{{quote|
''Fish flakes enter the goldfish's screen''
'''General''': "Not too much."
''A net takes some fish flakes away'' }}
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* One ''[[Coupling]]'' episode did this with an answerphone. The entire episode was an object lesson on weird/cool stuff you can do with splitscreen.
* Believe it or not, ''[[The X
* It's happened in ''[[Lizzie
* The season 4 finale of ''[[
** It was arguably a standard shot of a video screen that was, in turn, showing a
* ''[[
** According to the DVD extras for the first season, 24’s entire split-screen look was born of necessity when the editor realised the pilot involved a lot of phone calls. He was using a common computer editing setup that showed two separate takes running side-by-side and decided to apply that visual metaphor in the actual show.
* ''[[The Middleman]]'' uses this a lot, to good effect.
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* Taken to extremes on ''[[Glee]]'', during a conference call between all the members of the Glee club that are in on Finn's [[Baby Trap]].
* This trope appears in one episode of ''[[Family Matters]]'' involving Steve, Laura, Maxine, Waldo, and Eddie.
* The ''[[Roswell]]'' episode "I Married An Alien" is partly done as a ''[[
* Used in the [https://web.archive.org/web/20110602075426/http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8120700435328990155
* ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'' uses this trope constantly and finds new ways to play with it.
* ''[[Angel]]''. [[Played for Laughs]] in [[The Teaser]] of "Provider". A [[Victim of the Week]] is being chased by an [[Shadow Discretion Shot|unseen monster]], [[Broken Heel|stumbles in the rain]], [[Coincidental Broadcast|finds himself clasping an Angel Investigations flyer]], rushes to a phone booth and begins to dial frantically. We then [[Split Screen]] to Team Angel staring at the phone waiting for a
== [[Music]] ==
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== [[Web Original]] ==
* "A Call To Arms", Chapter 1 of ''
* [http://www.cracked.com/video_17443_answering-phone-in-movie-can-be-tricky-at-first.html This Cracked video] explains why it's scary to answer phone calls in movies.
** "Where was I? Where the hell did I go? Why was David Bowie there?"
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Used all the time in ''[[
* Done at least twice with [[media:Rsz candacejeremyphonecall 3615.png|Candace and Jeremy]] on ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]''.
* ''[[Super Mario World (
* ''[[
* ''[[The Simpsons]]'' had a scene with tons of little screens as rumours spread about Michael Jackson coming to Springfield.
** The episode "24 Minutes", a parody of ''[[
* ''[[Looney Tunes: Back in Action
* Also taken to extremes in one 1999 ''[[Arthur]]'' episode, where there was a '''4—4 split!''' Obviously, 16 people were shown on the phone at once in a single scene. Each screen also faded to black as each caller hung up. When Binky Barnes ended up being the last guy talking, some [[Hilarity Ensues|Hilarity Ensued™]].
* The ''[[Looney Tunes|Merrie Melodies]]'' cartoon ''The Bear's Tale'', has a split screen phone call scene between Red Riding Hood and Goldilocks who are both using [[Pay Phone|payphones]].
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* Shows up commonly on ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]''.
* In ''[[The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog]]'', [[Big Bad|Dr. Robotnik]] parodies this trope [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6NM_3J0lEY&t=7m12s in a way that has to be seen to be believed.]
* [[Lilo and Stitch (Disney film)|"Oh, my gosh! My dog's found a chainsaw!!!"]]
== [[Real Life]] ==
* Check your local news channel!{{context|reason=How many phone calls does a news channel make? (Except for 'As It Happens', of course, but that's radio and doesn't have a screen.)}}
* Thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, almost everybody who worked from home in 2020 can recognize this trope in a Zoom call or MS Teams call.
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[[Category:Camera Tricks]]
[[Category:Phone Tropes]]
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