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 traditional hand-drawn animation with sweeping CGI environments during a period when the studio was searching for its next creative direction. Reworking Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island as an interstellar adventure, the film paired ambitious visual technique with a classic boy's-own narrative, and though it underperformed at release, it has since gathered a devoted following among animation collectors who admire its design work and its place in Disney's transitional era between hand-drawn tradition and digital ambition.
This cell carries the name of the RLS Legacy, the solar galleon that serves as the vessel for the film's central voyage. As the ship that carries Jim Hawkins and the crew into the story proper, the Legacy functions as an early emblem of the film's world building, the point where the story's promise of adventure becomes physical and tangible. Collectors seek out cells tied to the ship itself, since it stands as a signature design element of the production, representing the film's distinct fusion of maritime tradition and science fiction imagination.
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 holes appear cleanly cut with no visible tearing.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible along one edge, accompanied by what appears to be a Dolby Digital data-block strip and a DTS timecode line running between the perforations and the picture area on the lower edge.
Edge print
Not clearly legible in this capture; faint markings are present along the lower edge but cannot be reliably quoted.
Base & colour
Base shows a light blue-cyan tint consistent with a colour print stock; dye image appears warm with no obvious red shift or fading.
Projection history
Light longitudinal lines are 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 shot and the animated imagery is consistent with Treasure Planet (2002).
Era check
The combination of variable-area optical track, Dolby Digital data blocks, DTS timecode, and cyan-tinted polyester base is consistent with a theatrical release print from the early 2000s.
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 000062803
Original Film CaptureAs received
Photographed on the light panel at intake, before encapsulation — tap to open full size
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