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FILM NOTES
Treasure Planet arrived from Walt Disney Feature Animation in 2002, a costly gamble that fused traditional hand-drawn animation with computer-generated backdrops to reimagine Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island as a science-fiction voyage across the stars. Directed by Ron Clements and John Musker, the studio's leading team behind The Little Mermaid and Aladdin, it marked an ambitious attempt to push animation into new visual territory even as it struggled commercially against a shifting industry landscape. It remains notable today as one of Disney's more distinctive experiments of the era.
This cell brings together B.E.N., the malfunctioning robotic companion whose broken memory holds the key to Flint's hidden treasure, alongside Captain Nathaniel Flint, the legendary pirate whose legacy drives the entire story. Pairing these two figures speaks to the film's central mystery, the link between Flint's buried past and the one machine still carrying pieces of it. Collectors prize B.E.N. cells for their comic energy and narrative weight alike, and a frame joining him with Flint captures the moment the treasure's true story begins to surface.
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, evenly spaced; punched edges appear clean with no visible tearing or distortion.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible along one edge, accompanied by what appears to be a Dolby Digital data block strip in the inter-perforation zone on the same edge, and a DTS timecode line is also discernible as a thin continuous stripe beside the optical track.
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 a colour print stock; dye image reads as neutral with no obvious red shift or fading.
Projection history
Light vertical scratching is visible running through 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 continuous shot, consistent with a release print of Treasure Planet (2002).
Era check
The combination of variable-area optical track, Dolby Digital inter-perforation data blocks, DTS timecode stripe, and colour positive stock on a blue-base print 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 000062830
Original Film CaptureAs received
Photographed on the light panel at intake, before encapsulation — tap to open full size
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