Saw this recently and wondered how you would format it.

Two scenes taken in the same house - two protagonist in both. One’s a flashback.

Scenes are cut back and forth and the cuts are introduced by one of the characters from the other scene walk through the one he’s not in into the one he’s in.

Example present day - protagonist sits on steps in hallway - his wife, dressed in outfit from flashback, walks by in the hallway and into the living room with the flashback crowd.

They do this numerous times. Thought it was great way to intercut scenes.

Hey John,

Curious where you saw/read this?

Sounds like an Intercut from a script like Inception.

Was it a directorial choice or an actual screenplay?
Can you post the specific example?

Check out the screenplay for Lone Star by John Sayles, which is readily available online. It includes a number of in-scene flashbacks, with characters speaking in the present, then a pan aside to start a scene that happened years ago in the same location.

It was in the hbo series the staircase.

Thanks lom

Quoted from Lon Check out the screenplay for Lone Star by John Sayles, which is readily available online. It includes a number of in-scene flashbacks, with characters speaking in the present, then a pan aside to start a scene that happened years ago in the same location.

This is interesting stuff... of the 'anything goes' experimental non-stand formatting type of thing.

The Staircase - would be interesting to see if that was on the page, or a Directorial thing.
Lone Star - Post a screenshot of a page maybe?

If not, Lon, can you direct me to a page number as an example?
Of course Pros can do whatever they want.
Dan Gilroy is a good case in point with Nightcrawler, which I loved.

Quoted from LC Lone Star - Post a screenshot of a page maybe? If not, Lon, can you direct me to a page number as an example?

An example of an in-scene flashback from page 9 of Lone Star:

Okay, I edited that image to the point where it should have been WAY smaller. Not sure what I'm doing wrong here, but there you go.

Thanks, Lon.
Much appreciated!

Ugh! It formats weird sometimes when attaching images and the result (as you can see, if you squint)  ;D is that the rest of the post-text resizes and turns miniature.

Some people have success with Imgur:

https://www.groovypost.com/howto/imgur-resize-images-from-web/#:~:text=To%20crop%2C%20just%20draw%20a,it%20will%20undo%20all%20changes.

Interesting, he kinda just makes it up as he goes along with the changing visuals.

We would normally be told to put that date as a SUPER.
And that clearly is a flashback to another time but any mention of Flashback is zilch.

If one of us imitated that we'd be told to reformat.

Quoted from LC Interesting, he kinda just makes it up as he goes along with the changing visuals. We would normally be told to put that date as a SUPER. And that clearly is a flashback to another time but any mention of Flashback is zilch. If one of us imitated that we'd be told to reformat.

Whether you're a newbie still learning the basics or even if you're an old pro who's written dozen of scripts, at some point you're going to have a visual in your head that there is no proper formatting rule for. When faced with such a scenario, aim for clarity.