Removing black bars down sides of clip?

Hello
I am editing a movie clip in Premier Elements 11. It's a 25fps file. I did not film the clip, but was told that it was a normal (not widescreen) PAL clip. The clip looks like this when I am editing it (screenshot).
What concerns me are those two thick black bars down both sides of the clip. What causes them, please? Is it that the clip was really widescreen and I am editing it in normal mode and how best to remove them as I imagine they will be visible when the final product is show on a DVD or TV.
Many thanks.
Steve

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In your other thread
https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1705170
I wrote
For now my messages to you will have to be read only because of the reply issues.
1. Please go to your home computer (no mobile device). In the browser (Firefox or Internet Explorer), type in the Adobe address http://www.adobeforums.com, sign in there with your Adobe ID and Password. Go to the Adobe Premiere Elements Forum where you search for and find your thread. Open the thread and try to reply to one of my messages by clicking the Reply button. Do you now see the Reply button to do that whereas before you could not.
2. Also, go to your browser's Options/Advanced/Network and its Cached Web content and clear the Cached Web content.
3. If you need to use a mobile device for communicating with the forum, do you have another mobile device that you could try to use?
After you send the reply, if it arrives with no message as before, that will tell us that the above were not the answer for that problem.
As for the Premiere Elements 13.1 Update, we will move on that as soon as possible when you can report back on what worked or did not.
Do not give up.
You have just sent another reply without a message in it. So, I am concluding that none of the above has solved the posting problem. I meant for you to reply in
your own thread, but that is OK because we are going to try for another communication route to workaround the posting in the thread problem.
Let us try the troubleshooting using the Adobe Private Message system. Later when we resolve the problems, then we can write back in the forum thread
to let everyone know the outcome.
In post 8 of this thread, click on my ID AT Romano. That will open my profile page. Look to the right to find an orange envelope. Click on the orange envelop
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Thank you.
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