I was just watching PG again, and noticed something interesting. PG and the 16mm print in the Catnap telecine share a ton of the same dirt, scratches, and other damage. I played them in sync, and a lot of the same stuff popped up on both at the same time. I did this after I noticed the same splices and emulsion scratches in the Tatooine pan-down on PG that are on Catnap (but without audio splices because the audio in PG is not from the same print as the visual).
I have a wild theory - perhaps the print used in PG is the same print used in Catnap, only after an additional 25 or so years of fading? The only other possibility is that they are just from the same print run, and the damage was in the 16mm reduction internegative, but I can't imagine that Fox or whoever would have continued to make prints off an IN that was that damaged. And I thought green emulsion scratches mean it's the print itself that's scratched, rather than the scratches being printed in from the previous generation; wouldn't negative emulsion scratches show up almost black on a positive?
Could that print have made its way from whatever person made the Catnap transfer (presumably in the UK, judging by the speedup and PAL color bars), down the line to Jaxxon, and eventually to Puggo? What are the odds?