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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Frequently used in comics, usually with a jagged diagonal gutter between two [[Odd -Shaped Panel|triangular panels]]. Sometimes the phone cords will be positioned to suggest the two recievers are directly connected to each other.
 
== [[Film]] ==
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* Believe it or not, ''[[The X Files]]'' did this one between Skinner, Mulder, and Scully ... and played it for laughs.
* It's happened in ''[[Lizzie Mcguire]]''. I think that had a triple-split screen, and then quadruple when Lizzie's brother tried to listen in.
* The season 4 finale of ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' has one of these; admittedly it's not a phone but a video conference, but still.
** It was arguably a standard shot of a video screen that was, in turn, showing a [[Split -Screen Phone Call]].
* ''[[Twenty Four|24]]'' does this ''a lot''.
** 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.
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[[Category:Phone Tropes]]
[[Category:Split Screen Phone Call]]
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