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FILM NOTES
Treasure Planet arrived from Walt Disney Feature Animation in 2002, a lavish attempt to fuse traditional hand-drawn artistry with early digital tools and reimagine Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island as interstellar adventure. Despite ambitious visuals blending painted backgrounds with CGI ships and vistas, the film underperformed at the box office, later gaining a devoted following as one of Disney's more distinctive experiments during a transitional era for the studio, sitting between hand-drawn classics and the coming dominance of computer animation.
This 35mm cell isolates Jim Hawkins, the film's restless young protagonist whose arc from aimless dreamer to capable spacefarer anchors the entire narrative. Collectors seek Jim frames because he carries the emotional throughline of the story, the character audiences are meant to follow from Earth's ordinary constraints into the vastness of Treasure Planet's universe. A single-character cell like this represents a clean, uncluttered strip of the reel, prized for isolating the lead without competing figures, offering a direct physical link to Jim's presence in the finished film.
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, evenly spaced; punched edges appear clean with no visible tearing
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible along one edge, with what appears to be a Dolby Digital data block strip in the inter-perforation gap beside it, and a DTS timecode line also discernible along the same edge
Edge print
Not clearly legible in this capture; faint markings are present along the edge but cannot be quoted with certainty
Base & colour
Base appears with a slight blue-cyan tint consistent with a colour print stock; dye image reads as warm and saturated with no visible fading or red shift
Projection history
Light vertical scratching is visible across the frame area, consistent with a print that has passed through a projector gate
Picture
Positive colour image; all three frames appear to be consecutive frames from a single continuous shot, and the animated imagery is consistent with Treasure Planet (2002)
Era check
The combination of variable-area optical track, Dolby Digital inter-perforation data blocks, and DTS timecode line is consistent with a theatrical release print from the early 2000s, matching the 2002 release date 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 000062800
Original Film CaptureAs received
Photographed on the light panel at intake, before encapsulation — tap to open full size
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