It was in a theater, but about ten years after it came out. It was for a U.Va. film study class, where the professor made the artificiality comment I mentioned earlier.
I tried to find a screen shot that demonstrated my thoughts, but it was difficult. (plus, screen shots rarely accurately...
By me. :)
I don't know if this was caused by the yellow screen system or not, but such effects always seem to have the composited images mismatched when it came to contrast and/or color density.], more so than the usual blue screen effects. As a result, any illusion of depth or of the two...
Wow, I wonder if the daughter attended U.Va. The film I was referencing three posts above was Hitchcock's THE BIRDS. I am assuming that, since Ub Iwerks worked on the film, some of admittedly bad process work used Disney's "yellow screen" system, which always looked weird to me.
Ah, film professors. I learned from one at U.Va. that some bad process work in a classic film from the 1960s was intentional, so as to reflect the artificiality of a main character.