SilverWook said:
I read somewhere many of Fox's widescreen LD transfers might have been too tight with regards to headroom, so what we're supposed to see or not see is murky at best.
True I'm going by the Blu Ray as the new standard for whats intended. I remember reading too that the 70mm prints had a different aspect ratio and show slightly more top and bottom information. But I would guess as Lucas was composing in camera with his marked off widescreen frame he would have used things like the skyline to balance his shots against. It seems (to me) like he would not have intended for the tiny strip of sky to show for example in this frame and change the 'closed in' feeling of the lanscape. This is just my subjective guess.