Talk:Split screen (video production)

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In television
The Patty Duke Show was pretty much based on Split screen — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fotoguzzi (talk • contribs) 10:46, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

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almost everything in this article is wrong
I've been watching movies and TV for over 60 years, and "split screen" has traditionally referred to a visible division of the screen to present multiple images. Googling "split screen" shows dozens of examples of this -- but no matte box shots.

To have an actor talk to himself traditionally required a Matte box to mask part of the image. Once the actor had performed one part, the film was rewound and the matte reversed. The second role was then performed. There's no limit to the number of times a performer can appear, other than the precision of the matte's positioning. In Buster Keaton's classic The Playhouse, he appears nine times in the same frame!

https://www.google.com/search?q=matte+box+multiple+exposure&rlz=1T4NDKB_enUS510US510&biw=1283&bih=890&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=brGKVOGUK4XsoAS1roHABQ&ved=0CFMQsAQ

The introduction of electronic editing ended the need for the matte box. Any number of takes can be combined into a single image, and the dividing line(s) can be placed anywhere. The current Rob Lowe ads showing two versions of himself are done this way, though it's been in use for decades. (The first place I saw it was ST:TNG.)

Please have someone fix this article, as well as the matte box article. WilliamSommerwerck (talk) 09:17, 12 December 2014 (UTC)