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FILM NOTES
Treasure Planet arrived from Walt Disney Feature Animation in 2002, a big-swing attempt to fuse traditional hand-drawn animation with digital 3D backdrops and a science-fiction retelling of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island. Directed by Ron Clements and John Musker, the pair behind The Little Mermaid and Aladdin, it was an expensive, ambitious release that underperformed at the box office but has since gathered a devoted following for its visual reach and its earnest, melancholy coming-of-age story. It stands today as one of the studio's most reappraised turn-of-the-century features, prized by collectors for representing a moment when Disney animation took real formal risks.
This piece carries the name RLS Legacy, the solar galleon that carries young Jim Hawkins and his companions out toward Treasure Planet. As a ship name rather than a character, it anchors the film's premise directly, the vessel of departure, the setting for the voyage's early camaraderie and unraveling loyalties. A cell bearing this name likely comes from an establishing or transitional moment, the kind used to orient audiences to scale and journey. For collectors, it represents the film's core symbol of adventure and its uneasy trust, a fitting emblem for a story built on the promise and peril of setting sail.
Authentication Findings8 checks
Consistent with a 35mm Dolby Digital 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 and the punched holes appear cleanly cut with no visible tearing.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible along one edge, and a Dolby Digital data-block strip is visible in the inter-perforation gaps on the same 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 light cyan-blue tint typical of modern safety stock; the dye image appears neutral with no visible red shift or fading.
Projection history
No visible splices, cue marks or heavy scratching are apparent; the surface appears consistent with a projected print.
Picture
Positive colour image; all three frames appear to be consecutive frames from a single shot, and the animated imagery is consistent with the CGI-animated feature Treasure Planet (2002).
Era check
The combination of Dolby Digital inter-perforation data blocks alongside a variable-area optical track, on a cyan-base safety stock, 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 000062806
Original Film CaptureAs received
Photographed on the light panel at intake, before encapsulation — tap to open full size
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