I had read the gout came from a D-1 master tape which was better than the later D-2.

Without the bad DVNR smearing the transfer even if in standard def and non anamorphic was pretty good for the time.

I wonder what the source was for the Gout master though. It is so overly grainy, and the DVNR made it worse by adding a noticeable artifact behind.

Could this has been from one of the duplicate masters, because it obviously is not there on the negative. Even prior to the Lowry clean up the negative was not as grainy as the gout.

Is the faces pan and scan ntsc VHS a different master? i Will have to check sometime to see if the 4-eyed stormtrooper glitch is present.