There was an article in Salon last year that covered the "return" of split screen. See: http://archive.salon.com/ent/tv/feature/2002/05/14/24_split/ The author, Julie Talen, claims that use of the split screen for telephone conversations began in 1913 in a Lois Weber film (see p. 4, near the end), but doesn't say which of Weber's more than 2 dozen films that year it was. The article is a nice informal survey of past and present trends in split screen. I was especially happy to see her citing some of the film exhibits at the Montreal Expo 67 World's Fair. Don Larsson "Only connect" --E.M. Forster Donald F. Larsson English Dept., AH 230 Minnesota State University Mankato, MN 56001 ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html