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 at fusing traditional hand-drawn animation with sweeping CGI space vistas, reimagining Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island as an interstellar adventure. Directed by Ron Clements and John Musker, the pair behind The Little Mermaid and Aladdin, it arrived at a moment when Disney's traditional animation was losing ground to computer-generated features, and its underperformance at the box office is now part of its legend among animation historians and collectors who view it as an ambitious, visually daring outlier in the studio's catalog.
This cell carries the name RLS Legacy, the ship at the center of the film's voyage, the vessel that carries Jim Hawkins and the crew toward Flint's treasure. A piece bearing the ship's name speaks to the film's core setting rather than a single character, marking the vessel as the story's true anchor point. Cells tied to named ships, crafts, or vehicles hold particular appeal for collectors building thematic sets around production design and world-building elements central to a film's identity.
Authentication Findings8 checks
Consistent with a 35mm Dolby Digital theatrical release print of Treasure Planet (2002).
Gauge
35mm, confirmed by four perforations per frame on both edges; the strip holds three complete frames.
Perforations
Four per frame on both edges; spacing appears even and the punched holes appear cleanly cut with no visible tearing.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible along one edge, appearing as a dual bilateral waveform; a narrow Dolby Digital data-block strip is also visible between the optical track and the picture area, consistent with a Dolby SR·D 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 light blue-cyan tint consistent with a dyed safety base stock; the dye image appears warm-toned with no obvious fading or red shift.
Projection history
Light horizontal surface 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 from the same continuous shot and the animated imagery is consistent with the CGI-animated feature Treasure Planet (2002).
Era check
The combination of a cyan-tinted safety base, dual bilateral variable-area optical track, and Dolby Digital data blocks between the perforations 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 000062804
Original Film CaptureAs received
Photographed on the light panel at intake, before encapsulation — tap to open full size
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