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mverta
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StarWarsLegacy.com - The Official Thread
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Date created
31-Mar-2015, 11:42 AM

Splicing/glue marks are a problem inherent to anamorphic film because it uses so much of the horizontal area.  To combat the flashes often seen at edits, projectionists began using a projector aperture gate that was narrower in the vertical, meaning that when projected Star Wars was actually 2.39-2.4. 

As for the other damage in those frames, normally I'd remove them!  Also, this sort of thing is precisely what the Legacy forum is for, so no worries there!

_Mike