JURASSIC PARK 35mm 4K scan + 35mm 4k scans of many trailers Mega Project including the rare Spiderman Twin Towers Teaser, Blade Runner, Pretty In Pink and numerous, some rare, others, see post (WIP - 6.5K scans of JP and trailers complete. Scan data now in hand! Funding of the project is a little past half-way now. Contributor only project for feature. I can't publicly distribute it. Small preservation project.)

I have a project going to get to scan a US open matte 35mm print of Jurassic Park, scan needs to be done right away. As the other part of the dual project many trailers will also be scanned at 6.5K and made available to donors in higher quality compression than the general heavily compressed releases.

There are quite a few potential trailers. Between this stuff and the prior project currently being worked on it may take some time to finish this all. Donors can ask what trailers to give priority for scanning and processing and they will be done in order of donations+requests received. Trailer can include:

The Little Mermaid trailer - original U.S. 1989

Home Alone 2 trailer

the rare Carmen On Ice trailer - feat. Katerina Witt & Brian Boitano

Blade Runner trailer - LPP and not faded, early optical stereo only

Return Of The Jedi SE Trailer ‘D’

Cruel Intentions

the rare A Night In The Life Of Jimmy Reardon trailer

Pretty In Pink - original trailer

The Lost World: Jurassic Park trailer

Bring It On trailer

Buffy The Vampire Slayer trailer

the rare Spider-Man 2002 Twin Towers Teaser trailer

Anchorman trailer

the rare Cool World trailer

Scans will be at 6.5K. Grading will be matched side by side display with a few selected frames from the various reels viewed under theatrical projection-like high CRI LED D56 lightbox conditions to hopefully get it to be extremely true in color tone, saturation and tonal curve to the 35mm print.

Project will have feature (trailers might not all get HDR) release in 2k and 4k SDR and 4k HDR (HDR will likely be mild and kept more theatrical-like) with two versions each (except for all the trailers that are not open matte), one being switching ratios open matte & 1.85:1 and one being all theatrical 1.85:1 and in both regular and ultra-suoer-high bitrate versions.

Audio will be both theatrical optical audio and Cinema DTS (for most to all stuff more recent than 1992).

Please respond here and DM me if interested in helping fund.
Project scanning/storage/backup cost: $1260 (actual true full cost will likely be considerably higher for this and the main print access fee is not yet totaled into this sum yet so the base level will go higher in the end most likely EDIT: I’ve ended permanently accessing the print, so huge cost, but not really something that can be a project cost now)
Current funding level: 100% funded [but the open matte will require another over 6TB more HD space so could open it up again to let me people in and cover that in a bit and I should probably do an over 6TB of currently rendered 1.85 data]

UPDATE UPDATE: the project will now also include a scan of the main original trailer for Jurassic Park and the teaser as well, however, these will be much delayed now due to the scanner used now longer scanning 6.5k DNG spec so I have to get my own scanner going which will take quite some time.

The scans for all other than the two JP trailers mentioned just above are long complete but not processed yet. Basic processing for the feature is complete. And a full beta release of the feature in 4k 1.85 ratio has been released now.

RU.08 said:

Jurassic Park is being done as it is here and I can confirm it is absolutely professional quality.

Join my Discord server and send me a message.

Is it ok for me to join the discord to see the progress of it?

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RU.08 said:

Jurassic Park is being done as it is here and I can confirm it is absolutely professional quality.

Join my Discord server and send me a message.

OK, just did.

(It seems there is a good chance this alternate one might end up going ahead anyway it’s already been in some time in getting the chance and a bit awkward to stop now and it might never hurt to get an alternate print done and processed in an alternate way.)

I have the print in hand now and I can say that the earlier 1080P project versions 1 and 2 colors definitely do not match what I see on the print I have. There is definitely more saturation on the actual print (at least on the particular print I have access to at the moment) and the colors are a different tint, pretty noticeably so.
I compared on a D56 high CRI lightbox directly next to monitor showing the two earlier 1080P project scan .mkv files. Not sure if it is because the print they used was more faded out or maybe processed differently in the film lab or the way the scan got done or graded. (that said still all props to the original 1080P JP project!)

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Wow these look great!

Wow! That colour is fantastic, can we get a sample video?

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My biggest issue with the first 35mm scan of Jurassic Park is how washed out the colours are. This print has more vibrant colours which I approve.

The new sample frames have a subtle yellow tint, so watch out for that.

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Yeah, I always crank up the colour saturation on my screen whenever I watch the 35mm scan.

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MonkeyLizard10 said:

fmalover said:

My biggest issue with the first 35mm scan of Jurassic Park is how washed out the colours are. This print has more vibrant colours which I approve.

The new sample frames have a subtle yellow tint, so watch out for that.

blindly applied my newest calibration for the scanner (based on comparison to 35mm print for TPM trailer) which I think is getting to be pretty close (at least for the other stock) and they look a touch less yellow now:

Gorgeous!

Thanks!

The scans are all complete!

Project funding has just barely gotten started though and there is still plenty of time to get in on it.

I’d love to chip into this!