So I was watching a bit of "Dr. Strangelove" today and they used the old standby special effect of having a model plane in front of a movie screen projecting aerial photographed landscape behind it. It's an old trick used by everyone from Kubrick in "Dr. Strangelove" to old sci-fi alien invasion movies from the 50's. It obviously looks very fake. But did it look fake in the 50's and 60's? When people saw old SFX in episodes of Star Trek and the original Battlestar Galactica, did it look fake at the time? Or is it only now, in the post-Lucas world, that we pay attention to the SFX shortcomings?

- Matthew