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FILM NOTES
Treasure Planet arrived from Walt Disney Feature Animation in 2002, a big-budget swing that fused hand-drawn animation with digital effects work to reimagine Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island as an interstellar adventure. Directed by Ron Clements and John Musker, the studio's team behind The Little Mermaid and Aladdin, it represented one of Disney's more ambitious visual experiments of the era, blending painterly backgrounds with CGI ships and starfields. Despite its craft, the film underperformed at the box office, which has since made surviving studio material from its production and promotion more scarce and sought after by collectors of the studio's late nineties and early two thousands output.
This cell centers on the RLS Legacy, the solar galleon that carries young Jim Hawkins and the film's crew across the picture's spacefaring frontier. As the vessel anchoring the film's title sequence and promotional imagery, the RLS Legacy stands as one of the production's signature design achievements, a hybrid of wooden sailing ship and starship architecture. A piece marked with this name suggests material tied to the film's early publicity or opening credits, the kind of studio artifact prized for representing the picture's defining visual concept before the story's characters take center stage.
Authentication Findings8 checks
Consistent with a 35mm theatrical release print of Treasure Planet (2002).
Gauge
35mm, confirmed by four perforations per frame on both edges; the strip holds three frames.
Perforations
Four per frame on both edges; spacing appears even and the punched holes appear cleanly cut with no visible tearing.
Soundtrack
A dual bilateral variable-area optical track runs along one edge, with a narrow digital timecode line adjacent to it, consistent with a Dolby SR optical plus DTS timecode configuration.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture at sufficient resolution to read any key numbers or manufacturer text.
Base & colour
Base carries a light cyan tint; dye image is neutral and fully saturated with no apparent colour shift or fading.
Projection history
No visible splices, cue marks or heavy scratching are apparent; the surface appears consistent with a projected release print.
Picture
Positive colour image; the three frames appear to be consecutive frames from a single continuous shot, and the animated imagery is consistent with the CGI-animated feature on record.
Era check
The combination of a dual bilateral variable-area optical track, a DTS timecode stripe, and a cyan-tinted safety base is consistent with a theatrical release print from the early 2000s, matching the 2002 release of the film 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 000062807
Original Film CaptureAs received
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