Trick fade
The trick fade is a variant of the fade in the film cut . Nowadays, except in animation films , it is often only used as a reference or homage to the Hollywood and series style of the 1930s and 1940s. So used z. B. George Lucas in Star Wars inclined wipers as a tribute to the B-Studio series, from which the film was inspired.
Wiping and trick screens appear in the most varied of variants, they can move in any direction and use any shape to allow one setting to emerge from another. For example, one picture can fall over the other like a kind of curtain, or expand or contract in the form of a keyhole from the center of the picture until the first picture can no longer be seen. Sometimes frames are used to separate the settings from one another or to clarify the shape of the aperture. A sliding trick creates the impression that one setting is pushing the other out of the picture. Often an element of the picture is used as an occasion for a trick fade, for example when a bus drives through the picture and practically pulls the next shot with it.