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FILM NOTES
Treasure Planet arrived from Walt Disney Feature Animation in 2002, a costly and ambitious attempt to fuse traditional hand-drawn animation with sweeping computer-generated backdrops, transposing Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island into a science fantasy universe of solar surfers, cyborgs, and interstellar galleons. Released during a period when Disney's animated output was being tested against the rising dominance of Pixar and DreamWorks, it stood out for its technical ambition even as it underperformed at the box office, later gaining a devoted following on home video. Its world-building, particularly its reimagining of familiar settings in fantastical form, remains a point of admiration for animation enthusiasts.
This piece captures the Montressor Spaceport, the film's inland harbor town where young Jim Hawkins first encounters the promise of adventure. As the gateway between ordinary life and the voyage to come, the spaceport establishes the film's blend of nautical tradition and interstellar invention, a threshold moment prized by collectors for representing the picture's distinctive visual premise before the story departs into open space.
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 complete frames
Perforations
Four per frame on both edges, evenly spaced, cleanly punched with rounded rectangular shape, no torn or deformed holes visible
Soundtrack
A blue-tinted band runs along the lower edge consistent with a Dolby Digital data-block area between perforations, alongside what appears to be a variable-area optical track; upper edge shows no visible soundtrack area
Edge print
Not visible in this capture at sufficient resolution to read any key numbers or manufacturer text
Base & colour
Base shows a light cyan-blue tint typical of modern safety stock; dye image appears neutral with no visible red shift or fading
Projection history
No visible scratches, splice marks, or cue marks seen
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 cyan-tinted base, Dolby Digital data blocks between perforations, and optical track combination are consistent with a theatrical release print from the early 2000s, matching the 2002 release date 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 000062843
Original Film CaptureAs received
Photographed on the light panel at intake, before encapsulation — tap to open full size
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