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 big-budget swing that fused traditional hand-drawn animation with sweeping CGI backdrops during a period when the studio was searching for its next creative direction. Reimagining Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island as an interstellar adventure, the film paired ambitious visual technique with a classic boy's-adventure structure. It underperformed at the box office on release but has since gathered a devoted following among animation students and Disney collectors who admire its craft and its willingness to take genuine risks.
This cell preserves a frame from the Montressor Spaceport, the film's key setting for departure and discovery, where young Jim Hawkins' ordinary world gives way to the wider galaxy beyond it. As a location rather than a character study, it represents the film's signature achievement: blending painted environments with dimensional space, grounding fantastical science-fiction machinery in a lived-in, almost nautical port-town atmosphere. For collectors, spaceport material captures the film's world-building ambition directly, offering a tangible piece of the transitional era in Disney animation history.
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 complete frames.
Perforations
Four per frame on both edges; spacing appears even and the punched edges look clean with no torn or missing perforations visible.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible running along the lower edge beside the picture, with what appears to be a Dolby Digital data-block strip in the inter-perforation zone on the same edge; a DTS timecode line also appears present as a fine dotted line along that edge.
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 consistent with a colour print stock; the dye image appears neutral with no visible red shift or fading.
Projection history
Light longitudinal lines are visible running through the frame area, consistent with a print that has passed through a projector gate.
Picture
Positive colour image; the three frames appear to be consecutive frames from a single continuous shot, consistent with a release print of an animated feature matching the film on record.
Era check
The combination of cyan-tinted base, variable-area optical track, Dolby Digital inter-perforation data blocks, and DTS timecode line is consistent with a theatrical release print from the early 2000s, matching the 2002 release date 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 000062844
Original Film CaptureAs received
Photographed on the light panel at intake, before encapsulation — tap to open full size
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