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 gamble that fused traditional hand-drawn animation with sweeping CG environments to reimagine Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island as an interstellar adventure. Despite ambitious visuals and a strong voice cast, it underperformed at the box office, becoming one of the studio's notable financial disappointments during a transitional period for the animation department. Even so, it has earned a devoted following in the years since, prized for its inventive world-building and its blend of classic seafaring adventure with science fiction imagination, a hybrid rarely attempted at this scale.
This cell centers on Jim Hawkins, the restless teenage protagonist whose journey from directionless youth to capable spacefarer anchors the entire story. Collectors seek him out because he carries the emotional weight of the film, a coming-of-age figure shaped by absence, longing, and the pull of the unknown. A frame preserving Jim on his own speaks to that solitary internal arc, the quiet moments between action where his character is truly defined, making this a meaningful piece for anyone tracing the film's core narrative through its physical artifacts.
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 appear clean with no visible tearing.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible on one edge, alongside what appears to be a Dolby Digital data block strip between the perforations on the same edge; a DTS timecode line also appears present as a thin stripe adjacent to the optical track.
Edge print
Edge print reads (mirrored as captured): '2002 1 25 K 00:11 1 411 25 76 383' — consistent with a key-number and timecode sequence; 'SAFETY' designation not fully legible in this capture.
Base & colour
Base appears with a slight 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 are apparent in this capture.
Picture
Positive colour image; the three frames appear to be consecutive frames from a single continuous shot, and the animated style is consistent with the film on record.
Era check
The combination of Dolby Digital data blocks, DTS timecode stripe, variable-area optical track, and cyan-tinted polyester safety base is consistent with a major studio 35mm 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 000062848
Original Film CaptureAs received
Photographed on the light panel at intake, before encapsulation — tap to open full size
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