I had seen an adapted scope print of the theatrical version of thx 1138 on sale a couple years ago, i could not afford the 150.00 before tax and shipping price tag, no way to project it or any way to store it.
I also let an adapted scope print in 16mm of american graffiti slip through my fingers and i could have had it for as low as sixty dollars a former school teacher was selling it, it had subtitles in the lower black area beneath the picture however.
The thing is you never know if these prints come from licensed sellers, most are not. Most are former prints for university, library use, film clubs, conventions, rental services before the advent of vcr's or airline prints.
Star Wars prints ever one i have seen sold in super8mm, 16mm, or the illegal to sell to the public flavors of 35mm or 70mm have sold for several thousand dollars, faded or unfaded. Since most are eastman stock, i would never pay that kind of money.
The best prints are the derann ones. Which were officially licensed to them for the UK only, on mylar low fade stock, they only ever had star wars and return of the jedi. Both in mono sound, stereo 35mm mix folded down into monaural. Only Available in Super8mm, scope and the full feature, mastered from a 35mm release print. Without actually owning a print i would not be able to say whether it showed the full image or was cropped.
One of the best things about the original thx was the monaural mix Walter Murch did, with the Lalo Scriffin score. It is infinitely preferable to the new mix on that cgi abomination.
Too bad i only have it on vhs in pan and scan and the letterbox laserdisc is long out of print, and was never remaster or restored under the thx laserdisc program, graffiti even got a signature release on laser with all the bells and whistles, star wars got the definitive box treatment. THX didn't even get digital sound except in japan. Where i am told the laserdisc had some cuts and censoring done to the nude scenes.
Even willow got a thx laserdisc in letterbox, except it is one of the worst rotters in the history of laserdisc,lol.
THX 1138 was never successful enough to even afford it a dump to dvd straight from the laserdisc master in non anamorphic form as a bonus disc. Graffiti had minor changes from the original theatrical version to the home video and dvd versions that it could easily be put out as a seamless branched blu ray, but i know that won't happen as Lucas prefers the version with the cgi sunset and changed building and a new 5.1 mix instead of the original and mono theatrical mixes.
But then again we never got the 35mm mixes for the original indiana jones trilogy on dvd, thank the force for laserdisc,lol.
