Sources: Wikidata · OpenAlex. The record of the motion picture, not an assessment of this cell.
FILM NOTES
Treasure Planet arrived from Walt Disney Feature Animation in 2002, a big-budget swing that fused hand-drawn character work with digital, painterly space vistas. Reimagining Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island as interstellar adventure, it carried the weight of Disney's animation renaissance ambitions into a new genre, arriving alongside a shift in audience taste toward computer animation. Though it underperformed at the box office, it has since gathered a devoted following for its visual ambition and score, making surviving 35mm artifacts from its release notable to collectors tracking the studio's early 2000s output.
This cell preserves the title card itself, the frame where the film's name is first presented to the audience, setting tone before a single character appears on screen. Such cells are prized precisely because they mark a threshold moment in the theatrical experience, the transition from anticipation to story. For Treasure Planet collectors, a title card holds particular value as a piece of the film's identity rather than a scene from its plot, a clean marker of the production's opening statement preserved on film.
Authentication Findings8 checks
Consistent with a 35mm Dolby Digital 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 both edges, evenly spaced, cleanly punched with no visible tearing or deformation
Soundtrack
Variable-area bilateral optical track visible along one edge; Dolby Digital data blocks visible in the inter-perforation gaps on the same edge, consistent with a Dolby Digital release print
Edge print
Not visible in this capture at sufficient resolution to quote alphanumeric codes; no legible key numbers or SAFETY FILM text can be confirmed
Base & colour
Base appears with a slight blue-cyan tint consistent with modern polyester stock; dye image appears neutral with no visible red shift or fading
Projection history
No visible scratches, splice marks, or cue marks seen
Picture
Positive image; all three frames show the same title card and run consecutively as a single held shot, consistent with a title sequence frame from Treasure Planet (2002)
Era check
The combination of Dolby Digital inter-perforation data blocks, bilateral variable-area optical track, and blue-tinted polyester base is consistent with a theatrical release print from the early 2000s, matching the 2002 release of Treasure Planet
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 000062784
Original Film CaptureAs received
Photographed on the light panel at intake, before encapsulation — tap to open full size
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