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 costly and ambitious swing at reinventing Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island as interstellar adventure. Blending traditional hand-drawn animation with early digital effects, it represented the studio's push into hybrid techniques during a transitional period for the animation department. Despite its visual innovation and a cast including Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Jim Hawkins, the film underperformed at the box office, later gaining a devoted following through home video. It stands today as a cult favorite among Disney enthusiasts, prized for its technical ambition even as it remains one of the studio's lesser-celebrated theatrical outings.
This cell centers on the RLS Legacy, the solar galleon that carries Jim Hawkins and his crew into deep space, a vessel whose name pays direct tribute to Stevenson himself. As the ship anchoring the film's central voyage, it holds particular appeal for collectors drawn to Treasure Planet's world-building and its reimagining of maritime adventure through a science-fiction lens. A cell built around a named ship rather than a character suggests emphasis on the vehicle central to the story, a piece capturing the mechanical heart of Jim's journey outward.
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; spacing appears even; corners are rounded and punches appear clean.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible along one edge, with what appears to be a Dolby Digital data block strip and a DTS timecode line also present beside the picture area.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture at sufficient resolution to read any key numbers or manufacturer text.
Base & colour
Base appears with a slight blue-cyan tint consistent with modern polyester stock; dye image reads as warm and fully saturated with no visible fading.
Projection history
Light horizontal abrasion 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 inter-perforation data blocks, DTS timecode line, polyester base, and fully saturated dye image 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 000062805
Original Film CaptureAs received
Photographed on the light panel at intake, before encapsulation — tap to open full size
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