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FILM NOTES
Treasure Planet arrived from Walt Disney Feature Animation in 2002, a big-swing attempt to fuse traditional hand-drawn animation with sweeping CGI space adventure, reimagining Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island as an interstellar voyage. Coming at a moment when Disney's animated output was being questioned against the rising tide of computer animation from rival studios, it stood as an ambitious, expensive gamble, blending painterly backdrops with digital ship design. It didn't match the box office of Disney's earlier hits, but it has since earned a devoted following for its visual imagination and orchestral scope.
This piece is a title card, the opening frame where a film announces itself before story begins, setting tone and expectation for what follows. As the introductory marker for Treasure Planet, it represents the very first handshake between audience and picture, the moment the swashbuckling, star-strewn premise is promised. Collectors prize title cards for that threshold quality, the sense of holding the doorway into the whole narrative rather than a single scene, a piece of film history tied to the production's identity itself.
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 complete frames.
Perforations
Four per frame on each edge, evenly spaced; punched edges appear clean with no torn or deformed holes visible.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible along one edge, accompanied by what appears to be a Dolby Digital data-block strip in the inter-perforation zone on the same edge; a DTS timecode line also appears present as a thin stripe beside the optical track.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture at sufficient resolution to quote characters reliably.
Base & colour
Base appears with a slight blue-cyan tint consistent with modern polyester stock; dye image reads warm gold and dark tones with no visible fading or red shift.
Projection history
No visible scratches, splice marks, or cue marks seen.
Picture
Positive colour image; all three frames show the same title-card composition, indicating consecutive frames from a single held shot; the title lettering reads 'Walt Disney Treasure Planet', consistent with the film on record.
Era check
The combination of polyester base, Dolby Digital inter-perforation data blocks, DTS timecode stripe, 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 000062785
Original Film CaptureAs received
Photographed on the light panel at intake, before encapsulation — tap to open full size
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