What settings to ensure widescreen video isn't 'squashed'?

I'm not very experienced in using iMovie, but I am just about to make a video in iMovie wich uses both widescreen (135º lens coverage) and 'normal' (65º lens coverage) width footage and stills.
I am about to film the widescreen footage, but it needs to be combined with the 'normal' stuff, which was shot on an older digital camera.
I know that this can cause problems - if I use widescreen aspect ratio then it will either stretch the 'normal' footage and stills horizontally to fill the screen or have a black line down each side at those parts of the video.
Similarly, if I use 'normal' aspect ratio, it will either 'squash' the widescreen footage to fit or will 'chop off a bit' of the image each side.
For me, the last of those is what I want to happen - so what settings to I need to use to ensure that the finished video has no 'squashed' or 'stretched' video, but 'chops off' the left and right extremeties of the widescreen footage that won't fit in the normal aspect ratio.
That way I can film the widescreen footage in such a way that there is nothing important at the left and right extremities of the image - and so the finished video will look OK 

Bump. Can anybody help, please?

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