$plit $creen by Aaron Kopff on February 12th, 2010

It is everywhere!

The year was 1967 and the  Universal exhibition in Montreal, commonly referred to as Expo 67, was where multi-screen highlights like In the Labyrinth premiered. It was hailed by Time magazine as a “stunning visual display,” their review concluding: “such visual delights as Labyrinth … suggest that cinema—the most typical of 20th century arts—has just begun to explore its boundaries and possibilities.” Directors Norman Jewison and Richard Fleischer conceived their ambitious split-screen films of 1968 after visiting Expo ‘67.

Just look at the possibilities. I wanna explore this way more! (for some reason I could only find a clip of Brain DePalma’s Sisters in french)

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