A screen split often on the diagonal was regularly used for phone conversations. Rouben Mamoulian's 1932 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde repeatedly used a diagonal wipe which paused halfway in its progress across the screen to achieve a momentary split screen effect and increase the visual associations between two succeeding shots. --Richard J. Leskosky -- ===================================================== Richard J. Leskosky Office phone: (217) 244-2704 Assistant Director FAX: (217) 244-4019 Unit for Cinema Studies <http://www.uiuc.edu/unit/cinema> University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 3035 Foreign Languages Building 707 S. Mathews Avenue Urbana, Illinois 61801 ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html