AntcuFaalb said:

So are you saying that the adjusted image is consistent with what you were talking about?

Exactly. Either this is a 16mm that was already vertically cropped, or a 35mm print vertically cropped by the telecine operator.

Not sure how we'd be able to tell which it is. I will say that the two English anamorphic 16mm transfers I've seen - Puggo Grande, and the bootleg that Catnap found - had a lot of dirt and damage in common. For example, the pan-down to Tatooine had a lot of emulsion damage (shows up as green blobs) and a couple of bad splices.

I was surprised that this kind of damage would be printed in from the previous generation, but unless the Puggo Grande print is the exact same print transferred in the "Catnap bootleg" many years earlier, it seems that at least one run of 16mm prints came from a rather beat-up source.

When I see this bootleg, I'll probably be able to provide more insight.