I just bought a trailer of Jurassic Park on eBay which I've been seeking out for a long time.

I don't think it's ever been played before because it even has the original piece of masking tape securing it to the spool. It's a Derann release in original box with superb colour, deep blacks and excellent detail, but very disappointingly the sound keeps dipping in and out...badly.

Can any of you fine collectors tell me if magnetic audio ever miraculously returns, i.e. after a good clean, or is it a hopeless cause? If there's no solution there, and instead of returning to the seller, should I see if I can get it restriped and re-recorded?

Or, finally, does anyone have a spare copy they'd like to sell me?

This is a trailer i have often tried to get hold of myself. There must have been something about the JP releases from Derann, as i understand it, the full feature they released as a limited run suffered badly from sound thanks to that crappy oxide paste stripe they used. On several features it simply peeled off. Considering the price it must have cost, that wasn't very good at all.
It's ok people saying about getting re-stripes and re-records but this can be half the price of the feature by the time you add postage both ways.

I am assuming that your copy of the trailers fault may be a one off Martin? I wonder if others on here who have the trailer could confirm this, if so, i will have to stop looking

Hopefully, someone will be able to re record for you.

A Derann white box special ?

I have the feature martin, but i have the problem of the stripe peeling off completely on all the reels. The recording is very much dependent on a few things, if it the paste stripe is it flat, and even across the width, and a re record may not help at all. I think they forgot at some stage when doing the recording to change the bias on the recorder to get the best from the stripe. If its the paste stuff i doubt if the quality control was anywhere near as good as kodak was.........

Quote: Paul Browning wrote in post #4

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I have the feature martin, but i have the problem of the stripe peeling off completely on all the reels. The recording is very much dependent on a few things, if it the paste stripe is it flat, and even across the width, and a re record may not help at all. I think they forgot at some stage when doing the recording to change the bias on the recorder to get the best from the stripe. If its the paste stuff i doubt if the quality control was anywhere near as good as kodak was.........

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Unfortunatly, Derann did struggle before getting almost corrected, in that experimental trial a number of titles suffered with a stripe that has so much glue to stick it to the film, the quality suffered hugely, lots of bumps and lots of hiss. It certainly doesn't do the heads any good thats for sure. Hopefully Martin, you will get it successfully recorded.

Can you scrape it off with your finger nail martin, as this wold indicate a paste stripe, if not, then its a stripe band. One thing i found with the walton films you can scrape off the paste stripe with your thumbnail, even on the good ones, so even when they are good its don't take much to get it off the film. I think perhaps someone has tried to improve it by cleaning as some have suggested on the forums, as i don't use any lube type cleaner on any of my films i cannot tell you how it will look or what effect it will have on the film base or stripe, so i would be inclined to clean it before any kind of re record is attempted just in case the previous owner has encountered this sound problem.............

Quote: Paul Browning wrote in post #7

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Can you scrape it off with your finger nail martin, as this wold indicate a paste stripe, if not, then its a stripe band.

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