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 artistry with sweeping CGI environments at a moment when the studio was searching for its next creative direction. Loosely adapting Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island into a science-fantasy setting, it represented a costly, ambitious experiment that has since earned a devoted following among animation collectors, even though its theatrical run underperformed. Its blend of galleon-shaped starships and hand-inked character work makes it a notable curiosity in Disney's early-2000s catalog, prized today for its distinctive visual identity.
This piece preserves a frame of the Montressor Spaceport, the film's establishing setting where solar-sailing ships depart into open space. As a location rather than a character close-up, it likely served as an early scene-setting or background element, the kind of cell collectors seek to represent the film's larger world-building rather than a single figure. For Treasure Planet enthusiasts, spaceport material captures the picture's core conceit, translating a maritime harbor into an interstellar embarkation point, and stands as a piece of the film's foundational scenery.
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 edges look clean with no torn or missing perforations visible.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible running along the bottom edge beside the picture area, with what appears to be a Dolby Digital data-block strip in the inter-perforation zone on the same 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 blue-cyan tint consistent with a dyed safety base stock; the dye image reads as warm-golden with no obvious fading or red shift.
Projection history
Several fine longitudinal lines are visible running the length of the strip, consistent with projection wear; no splices or cue marks are seen.
Picture
Positive colour image; all three frames appear to be consecutive frames from a single continuous shot, and the depicted imagery is consistent with the animated feature on record.
Era check
The combination of a cyan-tinted safety base, Dolby Digital inter-perforation data blocks alongside a variable-area optical track, and positive colour print format is 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 000062845
Original Film CaptureAs received
Photographed on the light panel at intake, before encapsulation — tap to open full size
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