Split Screen Brings Internal Conflict into Plain View
For more than a century, filmmakers have used the split screen in storytelling. For example, capturing simultaneous actions dates back at least to “Suspense” (1913). That film also used a split screen to dramatize a telephone conversation. Portraying twins occurs in “Wonder Man” (1945). And—to confound the censors—a split screen in “Indiscrete” playfully suggested what…
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