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* ''Series/ThePrisoner'' episode "The Girl Who Was Death" is an atypical loopy cliffhanger story - when it breaks for commercials it transitions into illustrations similar to the action, but in an Edwardian style and setting...it turns out these are [[spoiler: illustrations in a storybook Number Six is reading to children.]]

* An early example can be seen in the 1933 movie ''Film/HeroesForSale'' where a scene transitions from a newspaper photograph to the real location at a laundromat.

* An early example can be seen in the 1933 movie ''Film/HeroesForSale'' where a scene transitions from a newspaper photograph to the real location at the laundry.

** This happens when Marge looks at the painting above the family's couch in order to get inspriation for a book to write.

* ''[[Series/WaltDisneyPresents Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color]]'': The animated episode "Kids is Kids" opens, as usual, with an introduction by Creator/WaltDisney. As he ends his introduction with a shot of a portrait of Professor Ludwig Von Drake, the scene transitions with a fade to the Professor in the same pose as his portrait.

** ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast'' has the ball celebrating the breaking of the curse. The scene transitions to a stained glass window rendering (no cameras — it was the 1600s).

* In ''Film/KingsmanTheSecretService'', a black & white headshot of some girl the three remaining candidates have to seduce transitions into a color live-action scene with said girl. Watch it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGko_VdS9G0 here]].

* In ''Film/KingsmanTheSecretService'', a black & white headshot of some girl the three left candidates have to seduce transitions into a color live-action scene with said girl. Watch it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGko_VdS9G0 here]].

** Towards the end, an aerial shot of Mars's surface on a monitor in NASA's control room dissolves into a real shot on site.

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* ''Film/SkyHigh'' has this in the opening credits. Will's narration explains his life, and is shown in comic book pages. The panel focuses on the Stronghold house, then dissolves into the live-action image of the house.

* ''[[Series/WaltDisneyPresents Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color]]'': The animated episode "Kids is Kids" opens, as usual, with an introduction by Creator/WaltDisney. As he ends his introduction with a shot of a portrait of Professor Ludwig Von Drake, the scene transitions with a fade the Professor in the same pose as his portrait.

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* In ''Literature/TheVoyageOfTheDawnTreader'' by Creator/CSLewis, this happens in-universe, painting dissolving into reality.
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* The DisneyAnimatedCanon loves this trope.

A SceneTransition trope. A character (or the audience) is looking at a pictorial rendering of a location or scene. The camera lingers on the image, and then the scene transition happens — the photo {{dissolve}}s into a view of the spot identical in arrangement to the photo, painting or drawing from the previous scene.

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* Happens in ''{{Negima}}?'' (the second series) when the group goes camping/training and attempts to set up their tent.
-->'''Konoka''': Doesn't this look different from the picture?
-->'''Asuna''': Is doesn't matter as long as the tent stands up to the wind and rain [cut to a light breeze knocking it over].

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* In the LaurenceOlivier adaptation of ''HenryV'', the filmed-play opening scenes give way to the more cinematic rest of the movie when a painted background transitions to an actual background.
* ''Film/{{Creepshow}}'' and ''Film/{{Creepshow 2}}'' both have this. At the beginning of each segment, the first panel of a comic book story changed to a live action shot. At the end of each segment the reverse occurred.
* The 2004 movie version of ''ThePhantomOfTheOpera'' has this at the beginning and the end of the movie—probably an example of BookEnds as well.
* ''SkyHigh'' has this in the opening credits. Will's narration explains his life, and is shown in comic book pages. The panel focuses on the Stronghold house, then dissolves into the live-action image of the house.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsonsMovie'', the touristy unfolding map depicting a pristine Alaskan village gets stuck in the windshield as the Simpsons drive north, completely obstructing their view. When they remove it, the panorama is exactly the same (instead of the audience's expectations of a frozen wind-blasted wasteland).

** ''{{Enchanted}}'' features the happy Giselle, Robert and Morgan freezing into illustrations on a pop-up book.

* The animated movie ''TurtlesForever'' features this during its ending, as we see a shot of the [[spoiler: Mirage]] turtles dissolve into the real-world splash page the shot was based on, taken from the [[spoiler: first issue of the ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'']] comic book.

* ''[[Film/LordOfTheRings The Return of the King]]'' uses the reverse version, where the camera pulls away from the city of Minas Tirith and the picture slowly fades into a drawing of the city on a map. The camera then pans across the map to represent the characters' return journey.

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* Came up from time to time on ''MisterRogersNeighborhood'' when Fred looked into the "magic picture".
* The Granada SherlockHolmes series went both ways with this, especially in its first season. Scenes were shot to match the original Paget illustrations and sometimes a shot would fade into the end credits, which usually featured a series of further Paget illustrations. [[http://www.jjbaxter.com/sherlockholmes.aspx This site]] has an extensive side-by-side comparison of in-story shots and the original illustrations.

* The ''Series/MurdochMysteries'' episode "Dead End Street" features a dissolve from a painstakingly detailed diorama of the titular street to Murdoch and Crabtree walking up the real one.
* At the end of every episode of ''{{Blackadder}} The Third'' the final scene turned into a woodcut, heading the "Regency playbill" style credits.
* ''Series/ThePrisoner'' episode ''The Girl Who Was Death'' is an atypical loopy cliffhanger story - when it breaks for commercials it transitions into illustrations similar to the action, but in an Edwardian style and setting...it turns out these are [[spoiler: illustrations in a storybook Number Six is reading to children.]]

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* While it's not exactly ''exact'', the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpmhKE1RTpw#t=2m09s end]] of the intro to the first real mission in ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRenegade''

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* ''KickButtowski'' is considering where to get eggs if not from the store. He looks up and sees a billboard with a picture of a farm. The scene transitions, and the farm is picture perfect to its rendering on the billboard as Kick arrives.
* On ''TheSimpsons'', this happens when Marge looks at the painting above the family's couch in order to get inspriation for a book to write.
--> '''Marge:''' That's it! A novel about whaling! That's something you haven't seen before. Thank you, ''(squints to read title of painting)'' "Scene from ''MobyDick''."

--> '''Homer''': Ahhh. Yeah! Thats one fine looking BBQ Pit
--> [Camera zooms out to reveal the completed grill is actually the picture on the box it came in; the real grill is a pile of junk in cement]
--> '''Homer''': Why doesn't mine look like that!?
** In TheSimpsonsMovie, Homer is driving the family to Alaska, using a blatantly tourist-pandering map as a guide. As they're going over the final ridge, the map suddenly unfolds and takes up the whole windshield, offering a beautiful view of Alaska. They peel the map off, and... it's actually true to life, subverting the ''viewer's'' expectations.
* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' "Operation N.A.U.G.H.T.Y." is another tale told as a comic book, and the final shot is of the treehouse, turning into a comic book panel.

** In TheSimpsonsMovie, Homer is drinving the family to Alaska, using a blatantly tourist-pandering map as a guide. As they're going over the final ridge, the map suddenly unfolds and takes up the whole windshield, offering a beatiful view of Alaska. They peel the map off, and... it's actually true to life, subverting the ''viewer's'' expectations.
* ''CodenameKidsNextDoor'' "Operation N.A.U.G.H.T.Y." is another tale told as a comic book, and the final shot is of the treehouse, turning into a comic book panel.

** ''Disney/{{Pocahontas}}'' transitions from a woodcut of London Harbor at the time to London Harbor in gloriously rendered colour, zooming in on the Virginia Company ship as it prepares for departure.

* In ''VoyageOfTheDawnTreader'' by Creator/CSLewis, this happens in-universe, painting dissolving into reality.

* In ''TheSimpsonsMovie'', the touristy unfolding map depicting a pristine Alaskan village gets stuck in the windshield as the Simpsons drive north, completely obstructing their view. When they remove it, the panorama is exactly the same (instead of the audience's expectations of a frozen wind-blasted wasteland).

** ''Disney/{{Beauty and the Beast}}'' has the ball celebrating the breaking of the curse. The scene transitions to a stained glass window rendering (no cameras — it was the 1600s).

** ''Disney/{{The Princess and the Frog}}'' has several, going from grayscale newspaper photos to shots of the action.

* ''{{Series/TheCape}}'' has comic panels turning into live action in the opening credits of the opening episode.

* ''ThePrisoner'' episode ''The Girl Who Was Death'' is an atypical loopy cliffhanger story - when it breaks for commercials it transitions into illustrations similar to the action, but in an Edwardian style and setting...it turns out these are [[spoiler: illustrations in a storybook Number Six is reading to children.]]

* While it's not exactly ''exact'', the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpmhKE1RTpw#t=2m09s end]] of the intro to the first real mission in ''CommandAndConquer: Renegade''