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FILM NOTES
Released in 2002 by MGM through Steve and Terri Irwin's own production banner, The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course brought the Animal Planet phenomenon to the big screen at the height of Irwin's global fame. Blending wildlife documentary with a loose comic thriller plot, the film let audiences experience his hands-on style and unfiltered enthusiasm for dangerous animals in a proper theatrical frame. It stands today as a time capsule of early 2000s natural-history entertainment and remains the definitive cinematic record of Irwin at the peak of his career, before his death in 2006 made every surviving frame of his screen work more meaningfully sought after.
This cell captures Steve Irwin alongside a king brown snake, one of Australia's most formidable venomous species and a fitting subject for his brand of close-quarters wildlife encounter. Moments like this defined his on-screen identity, the naturalist working directly with animals few would approach. A 35mm cell preserving this pairing offers collectors a tangible link to that persona, a single frame of the encounter that made the film, and by extension Irwin himself, an enduring cultural touchstone.
