Term Sought: Several Images in a Frame...

[FalTorPan]

What is the cinematic term for showing multiple images in a single frame? If you set this up on your TV, it's often called "picture-in-picture," but I would imagine that the cinematic term is different.

An example of what I'm talking about occurs during the first few seconds of this sequence on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9JUmcRz6z8

 

[chardman]

I've always heard multiple images combined into a single frame as "Split screen".

In film and video production, split screen is the visible division of the screen, traditionally in half, but also in several simultaneous images, rupturing the illusion that the screen's frame is a seamless view of reality, similar to that of the human eye. There may or may not be an explicit borderline.
Until the arrival of digital technology in the early 1990s, a split screen was accomplished by using an optical printer to combine two or more actions filmed separately by copying them onto the same negative, called the composite.
In filmmaking split screen is also a technique that allows one actor to appear twice in a scene (as though they were cloned or had traveled through time). The simplest technique is to lock down the camera and shoot the scene twice, with one "version" of the actor appearing on the left side, and the other on the right side. The seam between the two splits is intended to be invisible, making the duplication seem realistic.

The documentary/concert film "Woodstock" used split-screen to awesome effects, combining footage of performers, and various events both onstage and off, as they occurred simultaneously. As seen in this clip of Joe Cocker's performance...
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQYDvQ1HH-E[/yt]

 

[chardman]

Also this intro to Buck Rodgers uses lots of split screen [yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CO8kFHCXiEg[/yt]

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

As does this intro to Eric Cartman In The 25th Century[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HRcNgAhn2E[/yt]

 

[Robert Simmons]

A long time ago I heard a professional it referred to as "pane-ning" ( like window panes ) Multiple panes. ( Example a screen broken up into quarters with 4 different images )
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[monodox]

Showing my age - remember it being used in the 1966 James Garner film, 'Grand Prix'. More info here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split_screen_(filmmaking)

 

[Maurice]

It's a split screen if the screen is split into sections. There's some different nomenclature for images on top of images like comic book sub-panels.

 

[FalTorPan]

Thanks, Maurice!