mverta said:

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

^^ this. Thus why some people refer to scope sometimes as 2.35 (the ratio on the film) or 2.39/2.40 (the ratio projected on the screen).

And those splice glue marks are on all scope films. Nothing to worry about. It's what holds the film together on the negative.