Some special effects don't transfer well to the small screen. When the transfers are made, you get a major shift in contrast, which makes details that normally went unseen suddenly show up like a huge Vegas billboard on TV. Thus, you get to see the wires holding up Martain War Machines... garbage mattes around the ships in Star Wars, and contrast differences between the paintings and foreground elements in the work of Albert Whitlock. These "goofs" are not any fault of the artists who created the original work. It's just that you are seeing them in a way that they had not intended.

horrorfilmx, could you give me some example of what you are talking about in Jackson's Kong? I don't recall seeing any matte problems... (something that almost never happens anymore in this day of digital compositing) but then, perhaps it's because I wasn't really looking for them.

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