SilverWook said:
I've not seen the squeezed macrobinocular shot in any of the early home video transfers, only in the "HBO version".
Thanks for finding that. :)
I too have seen this shot on my 1988 PAL VHS. as discussed here http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/PAL-VHS-Archive-Collection/topic/3829/ in posts 8 and 10. The pictures are long gone. Sorry. In fact I have seen 3 versions of this shot, a slice in the middle of the screen, a slice to left or right and the squeezed shot discussed here in this thread.
Similarly, I did a screenshot page to highlight changes in another shot of Fullscreen releases http://homepage.ntlworld.com/russdawson/gtf/swfull.html