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* Creator/AlfredHitchcock's ''Film/{{Psycho}}'': in the shower scene, the bathtub drain and Marion's eye.

** Hitchcocks' {{Film/North By Northwest}} ends with a match cut.

* Done amazingly in Switchfoot's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wt35Tdj3hoI&feature=relmfu video]] for "We Are One Tonight". Seriously, just watch it.

* The season 3 opening to ''TransformersGeneration1'' has several of these.

** Hitchcock's 1935 version of ''Film/The39Steps'' features a ''sound'' match cut; Hannay's landlady screams upon discovering Miss Smith's dead body, and the picture cuts to a train coming out of a tunnel while the scream dissolves into the sound of the train's whistle.

* The most recognizable MatchCut might be from the opening of ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey''. A bone tossed into the air by a primitive hominid is matched with a satellite in orbit over 21st century Earth. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML1OZCHixR0#t=6m50s Here]].

* In ''LawrenceOfArabia'', the titular hero blows out a [[MatchCut match, and we cut]] to the sun rising over the desert.

* Creepy example in ''Film/StarTrekInsurrection''. Picard is wrestling with his conscience over what to do as the Federation has teamed up with some unpleasant aliens who are stealing some innocents' special planet that will let them live forever--at the moment they try to keep themselves going with BodyHorror operations. The MatchCut is between Picard taking off his rank pips and putting them on his desk--and one of the aliens having their teeth operated on.

* Frequently used in the first half of the 1967 film version of Truman Capote's ''In Cold Blood'' as we cut back and forth between the killers and their pursuers.

* During the song "A Girl Worth Fighting For" from ''{{Mulan}}'', part of a dream sequence seen about halfway through the song actually turns into a Mount Rushmoresque-rock sculpture seen in the background.

* This is very common in ''UglyBetty'', which gets away with it because of the slightly bizarre (i.e. stylish) design of the sets - weird objects intruding into frame to become odd shapes in the next shot don't seem at all out of place when all the windows in the office are circular.

A [[HardCut cut]] or {{dissolve}} that matches an object in the first shot with an object in the second shot. The objects must be similar in size and position within the shot. Can be used to add harmony and continuity to a sudden shift in time or place. JamesCameron seems especially fond of this technique, as it appears in almost every one of his films.

* The most recognizable MatchCut might be from the opening of ''TwoThousandAndOneASpaceOdyssey''. A bone tossed into the air by a primitive hominid is matched with a satellite in orbit over 21st century Earth. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML1OZCHixR0#t=6m50s Here]].

* Done more than a few times in ''{{Spaced}}'', including a reference to the famous ''TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'' Match Cut - a rolled-up newspaper thrown into the air becomes a model of a spaceship in the comics shop.

* ''ComicBook/TheKillingJoke'' also pulls this off: the flashback sequences that depict the Joker's origin story ([[MultipleChoicePast the one he's currently remembering at the time of the story]]) have a tendency of cutting into the current situation with one of these. It's really effective in creating a sequential atmosphere. Just call it an AlanMoore thing.

* Towards the end of ''AtlantisTheLostEmpire'', Whitmore receives a crystal necklace from Milo after his teammates have returned from their journey; the scene cuts to the crystal necklace worn by [[spoiler:Kida, newly made]] the [[TheHighQueen Queen]] as she takes it off and blows on it to make a stone face representing [[spoiler: her late father, [[LeonardNimoy Kashekhim Nedakh]]]], causing it fly away into the sky.

* ''TheKillingJoke'' also pulls this off: the flashback sequences that depict the Joker's origin story ([[MultipleChoicePast the one he's currently remembering at the time of the story]]) have a tendency of cutting into the current situation with one of these. It's really effective in creating a sequential atmosphere. Just call it an AlanMoore thing.

* ''TheKillingJoke'' also pulls this off: the flashback sequences that depict the Joker's origin story (the one he's currently remembering at the time of the story) have a tendency of cutting into the current situation with one of these. It's really effective in creating a sequential atmosphere. Just call it an AlanMoore thing.

* ''TheKillingJoke'' also pulls this off: the flashback sequences that depict the Joker's origin story have a tendency of cutting into the current situation with one of these. It's really effective in creating a sequential atmosphere. Just call it an AlanMoore thing.

* This concept was pioneered by ''Film/CitizenKane''. The entire opening sequence is one long, dissolving match cut. The intro consists of several shots of Kane's mansion Xanadu from different angles dissolving into each other. Only one of the windows is illuminated, and despite the many different camera angles, it remains in the same location in the frame.

* ''CityOfAngels'' does this several times when transitioning out of the ShowWithinAShow. Mallory undoing Stone's tie segues to Donna tying Stine's tie; Irwin S. Irving's body on a gurney segues to Buddy on a massage table; and Oolie getting into bed segues to Stine lying in bed with Donna.

A [[HardCut cut]] or {{dissolve}} that matches an object in the first shot with an object in the second shot. The objects must be similar in size and position within the shot. Can be used to add harmony and continuity to a sudden shift in time or place.

* The opening scene of ''TheLostWorldJurassicPark'' cuts from a woman on a tropical island shrieking to Jeff Goldblum yawning in front of a picture of a tropical island.

* {{Titanic}} features two notable match cuts: one transitioning from young to old Rose, and the other transitioning from the Titanic at sea in 1912 to the Titanic sunken in 1997.

* ''LayerCake'' uses frequent match cuts, but most notably to [[BookEnds book end]] the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=1PrkPicfqTA assassination sequence]] with a KubrickStare.

* ''AChristmasStory'' cuts from Randy opening the toilet to the boys' mother opening a pot of dinner.

* In the BettyBoop cartoon "I'll Be Glad When You're Dead You Rascal You", which was scored by LouisArmstrong and his band, a scene of a cannibal stirring a boiling bot fades to a live-action scene of a drummer in Armstrong's band before fading back to the animation.