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Then perhaps the projectionist at the theater you saw the film had the mattes mis-aligned during the showing? That could account for that. I've seen films where the subtitles are almost unreadable because of poor positioning of the aperture plates in the projector--tops of heads cut off, or the...

There is nothing to fix. These films (and many, many others) were shot "full-frame", meaning the entire 4X3 area of film was exposed during the production. However, the director and cinematographer composed the shots with the intention that the film when exhibited would be "soft-matted" in the...