Special Effects - Dallas Theme

I am new to iMovie 09. I would like to create an opening clip for my home movies that looks like the opening of the Dallas TV show. Adding the clips and the music are the easy steps. How can I add the special effects of sliding the pictures and the three pane view when listing the characters?
Any help from anyone would be great. I am just not getting it.. The following is the Dallas Theme video clip from Youtube...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_R8WS-j7SKA

Welcome Dak991 to the iMovie boards ..
I dare to say: no chance with iMovie...
the vertical movin' split-screen as in your example contains video - so, you need two video tracks at last to accomplish such an effect (and a mask for size and borders) => easy with FinalCutExpress, NoGo with a 20$toy tool as iMovie
if you would use stills/pics/photo, you could probably 'fake' it with some combo of Ken Burns over a pre-produced, very wide still and greenscreen... but no movin' images...

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