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 gamble that fused hand-drawn artistry with early digital effects to reimagine Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure as interstellar swashbuckling. Directed by Ron Clements and John Musker, the studio's veterans behind The Little Mermaid and Aladdin, it married classic animation craft to a science-fiction frame, sailing wooden galleons through open space on solar winds. Though it underperformed on release, it has since gathered a devoted following for its ambition and visual imagination, standing as a distinctive entry in Disney's animated catalog.
This cell preserves the RLS Legacy, the vessel at the heart of the story, the ship that carries Jim Hawkins and its crew toward Flint's long-hidden treasure. Naming it Captain Flint's Ship ties the frame directly to the legend driving the plot, the mythic pirate whose fortune sets the entire voyage in motion. For collectors, ship-only cells hold particular value, isolating the film's engineering and design work without character distraction, a piece of pure production artistry from a title still earning renewed appreciation.
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, evenly spaced, cleanly punched with no torn or deformed holes visible
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible on one edge, alongside what appears to be a Dolby Digital data block pattern in the inter-perforation gaps on the same edge, and a DTS timecode stripe is also discernible, consistent with a tri-format optical release print
Edge print
Edge print reads mirrored; decoded it reads: KODAK 96 T 1 1+1 295 2002 S
Base & colour
Base shows a blue-tinted safety stock tint; the dye image appears rich and colour-balanced with no visible fading or red shift
Projection history
Light longitudinal scratches are visible running along the length of the strip, consistent with projection through a film gate
Picture
Positive colour image; all three frames appear to be from the same continuous shot, and the atomic-orbit logo visible matches known production design from the film on record
Era check
The Kodak stock code, blue-tinted safety base, combined Dolby Digital and DTS optical soundtrack configuration, and 2002 date code are all consistent with a theatrical release print from that year
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 000062836
Original Film CaptureAs received
Photographed on the light panel at intake, before encapsulation — tap to open full size
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