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FILM NOTES
Treasure Planet arrived from Walt Disney Feature Animation in 2002, a big-budget gamble that fused Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure novel with a science-fiction frame of solar surfers and star-strewn space. Directed by Ron Clements and John Musker, the pair behind The Little Mermaid and Aladdin, it married traditional hand-drawn animation with early digital effects at a moment when the studio was reaching for new ground. Though it underperformed at release, it has since gathered a devoted following for its ambitious visual design and its earnest, character-driven take on a classic seafaring tale reborn among the stars.
This cell centers on Jim Hawkins, the restless young protagonist whose journey drives the entire film, tied to the treasure map that sets his adventure in motion. The map is the story's inciting object, the promise of legend and danger that pulls Jim from his ordinary life toward the stars. Collectors prize Hawkins material for its connection to the film's emotional core, a coming-of-age arc built on ambition and discovery. A cell built around this map moment captures the film's founding premise in physical form, a frame tied directly to the mechanism that launches the entire voyage.
Authentication Findings8 checks
Consistent with a 35mm theatrical release print of Treasure Planet (2002).
Gauge
35mm, confirmed by four perforations per frame on both edges; the strip holds three frames.
Perforations
Four per frame on both edges; spacing appears even and the punched edges appear clean with no visible tearing.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible along the bottom edge, accompanied by what appears to be a Dolby Digital data block strip between the perforations on the lower edge, consistent with a dual-format optical release print.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture at sufficient resolution to read any key numbers or manufacturer text.
Base & colour
The base shows a blue-tinted clear stock; the dye image reads with strong green and yellow saturation consistent with a colour release print in good dye condition.
Projection history
No visible splices, cue marks or heavy scratching are apparent; faint longitudinal lines along the base suggest the strip has passed through a projector gate.
Picture
Positive colour image; all three frames appear to be consecutive frames from a single shot, and the animated visual style is consistent with a Disney animated feature of the early 2000s matching the film on record.
Era check
The combination of blue-base colour stock, variable-area optical track, and Dolby Digital data blocks between perforations is consistent with a theatrical release print from 2002, the year of Treasure Planet's release.
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 000062789
Original Film CaptureAs received
Photographed on the light panel at intake, before encapsulation — tap to open full size
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