***I’ve watched the movie many times -****
Do you remember the 1969 release when it was recut for WIDE SCREEN!
I saw it when it was supposed to be wide screen, but it was not.
A few months later I saw it in Little Rock AR, and it WAS in wide screen.
There was a problem. In one scene Scarlet goes to see Rhett in jail, an orderly walks up to a sitting Ward Bond, and tells him she is there to see Rhett.
OK, normal scene.
When I caught it in Wide Screen the soldier has NO HEAD!
They cut it off when they trimmed the 35 mm to wide screen by removing a strip at the top and bottom of the frame.
That's when I saw it for the first time--and I didn't like it. At the time, I preferred action/adventure films to serious drama. But when I saw it again on TV in 1987, I fully appreciated it.