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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.

* This WAS the very first special effect in film. It was used in one of Edison's early films not long after the movie film was invented in the first place. The film depicted the execution of a historical queen. Many viewers thought the poor actress had actually been killed. (Dying for your art?)

* Featured near the end of Akira Kurosawa's ''[[Throne of Blood]]'', when {{spoiler|Taketori Washizu is shot through the throat.}}

** Lili Von Shtupp does it as well in ''[[Blazing Saddles]]'', when she changes into something "more comfortable".

* Used in the beginning of ''[[Secret Window]]'' to make it appear that Johnny Depp's character has driven through a parking lot with the camera on the hood and then backed away from said camera in the same shot.

* Early black-and-white horror films such as ''[[The Wolf Man]]'' staged their transformation scenes like this, using progressive stages of makeup.

* This is how Morbius' protective shutters in ''[[Forbidden Planet]]'' open and close.

* ''[[Hugo]]'' shows a film shoot that uses this trick, letting us see how the shot is changed as well as how it looks in the finished scene.

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

 

* 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.

* Similarly seen on ''[[I Dream of Jeannie]]''.

* Also possibly part of how they do the "Vamping Out" effects on ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Buffy]]'' and ''[[Angel]]''.

* The standard TARDIS materialisation method in ''[[Doctor Who]]'' did this, with a dissolve instead of a jump cut. The Raston Warrior Robot in "The Five Doctors" disappeared and reappeared this way.

* The original ''[[Star Trek]]'' series would do this whenever the [[Sufficiently Advanced Alien]] needed to make stuff disappear.

** There is at least one episode of ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' where the crew gets frozen by the weird physics of the week — but you can see them not quite succeeding in holding still.

** The "Q flash" was used to cover up tiny movements that other actors made while John de Lancie moved into, or out of, camera view for Q's sudden appearances and disappearances while the cameras were stopped.

** Used heavily in the ''Design for Dreaming'' short.

** As well as ''[[Mr. B Natural]]''.

* 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.

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