As a reminder, everyone who received a disk, will be receiving a replacement disk. They are already in the mail.
Yes, reel 2 was in worse condition (color-wise) than the other two reels.
Here's an interesting observation that perhaps someone here can explain(?).... the fact that reel 2 has a different leader, and was much more red (different filmstock?) would ordinarily lead me to conclude that the reel was part of a different set than reels 1/3, and that therefore this was a mix-and-match set. However, there are two things to counter that...
- reel 2 was erroneously cropped in exactly the same way as reels 1/3, and
- in the Swedish subtitled set, the leaders shared the same differences in style as in the normal set (that is, reel 2 had the circular countdown leader whereas reels 1/3 had the fat block numbers). This despite, again, all of the Swedish reels having the same (non-erroneous) cropping as each other.
So, is this leader pattern normal on 16mm film sets, and this was not a mix-and-match set?