I thing I told that story before. I as well saw Jacob’s Ladder on VHS in a 4:3 format. But that format had the disturbing effect that very often a microphone was visible at the upper edge of the picture and I was wondering how it was possible that such flaw happens at such a highly professional production. Later I learned that in the movie version the microphone was not visible and that this was just an issue of the 4:3 frame for the VHS.