I got curious about how cropped the Falcon cockpit shots really were since I knew they were about 9% smaller on subsequent releases, so I compared the most recent Blu-Ray to the raw footage from the “Celebrating 40 Years of Empire” video and my god. There’s more image left out than there was left in.
George must’ve really hated how open they made that little set.
Here’s how it could of looked, cropped to 2.35:1. A little more spacious, but not overly.
