Abstract: An expansion of the display of graphical content over multiple spatially separated smart monitors of an in-flight entertainment system involves initiating data communications links between each of the multiple smart monitors. A background graphical content is segmented into corresponding sections for each of the multiple smart monitors, with being unique to a specific one. Each of the sections of the background graphical content are displayed on the respective smart monitors, and a moving foreground graphical content is animated across one or more of the smart monitors. Transitions of the moving foreground graphical content from an originating one of the smart monitors to a destination one of the smart monitors is communicated over the corresponding data communications link initiated therewith. Inputs from the smart monitors are received to correspondingly modify the animating of the moving foreground graphical content.