Now this is what I call an amazing coincidence! Watching "Hyperboloid..." just a few days after having seen the new UK release of "Things to Come" (reviewed here), I spotted a scene where the Russians used some excavation machinery footage from "Things..." as back-projection: ;-)

OK, let's switch to a more serious matter - the film's AR. IMDb claims it's 2.35:1, which is obviously not the case here. Inspired by a similar issue I'm currently investigating for the purpose of another review, I tried the following - I cropped the 576p PAL picture to 480p, flagged it as anamorphic, and voilà - the resulting AR was 2.33:1. As you can see in the examples below, the circular objects do not look egg-shaped anymore after this treatment. And the conclusion? Did RusCiCo want to create anamorphic NTSC transfer, but ended with non-anamorphic PAL instead? My guess is they did...