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FILM NOTES
Treasure Planet arrived from Walt Disney Feature Animation in 2002, a big-budget swing that fused hand-drawn character work with early digital environments to reimagine Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island as interstellar adventure. Released during a period when traditional animation was losing ground to computer-generated features, it stands as one of the studio's most ambitious and visually experimental efforts of the era, blending painterly backdrops with sweeping science-fiction scale. Though it underperformed at the box office, it has since gained a devoted following for its craftsmanship and atmosphere.
This piece preserves the title card, the opening credit frame that establishes a film's identity before story begins. For collectors, title card cells hold particular value as the first physical marker of a production, often the only surviving artifact tied directly to the film's branding rather than its characters or scenes. As a 35mm piece from Treasure Planet, it represents the gateway moment into Disney's space-set retelling, a keepsake of introduction rather than incident.
Authentication Findings8 checks
Consistent with a 35mm theatrical release print of Treasure Planet (2002).
Gauge
35mm, four perforations per frame on both edges; the strip holds three frames.
Perforations
Four per frame on each edge; spacing appears even and the punched edges appear clean throughout the strip.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible on one edge, with a Dolby Digital data-block strip running in the inter-perforation gap on the same side, and a DTS timecode line also visible alongside; SDDS tracks are not clearly distinguishable in this capture.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture.
Base & colour
The base appears with a slight blue-cyan tint typical of modern polyester stock; the dye image reads as neutral with no visible colour shift or fading.
Projection history
No scratches, splice marks or cue marks are visible in this capture.
Picture
Positive image; all three frames show the same title-card composition, consistent with a title sequence held on consecutive frames, and the title lettering matches the Walt Disney Pictures release Treasure Planet (2002).
Era check
The combination of polyester base, Dolby Digital inter-perforation data blocks, DTS timecode line, and variable-area optical track is consistent with a theatrical release print from the early 2000s, matching the 2002 release date of the film on record.
Read from the original intake capture shown below. Observations only — film is authenticated, not graded.
This original motion picture film element has been examined and authenticated by Crown Grading in partnership with National Film Vault, and encapsulated for archival preservation.
Why so little survivesRelease prints were leased to theaters, not sold. When the run ended they went back to the distributor to be destroyed, and most were. What collectors hold today came from the prints that escaped that order, and no new 35mm prints of these films are being struck.
CROWN SERIAL 000062783
Original Film CaptureAs received
Photographed on the light panel at intake, before encapsulation — tap to open full size
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