Sources: Wikidata. The record of the motion picture, not an assessment of this cell.
FILM NOTES
Digimon: The Movie arrived in 2000 as Twentieth Century Fox's attempt to translate Toei's television phenomenon into a theatrical event, stitching together three Japanese Digimon Adventure and 02 features with new English dubbing for American audiences. Riding the wave of the franchise's card game and toy line success alongside Pokemon's box office dominance, it introduced the DigiDestined and their Digimon partners to a wider crowd. The film represents a peculiar artifact of localization era anime, repackaged and reframed for Western multiplexes at the height of monster collecting mania.
This cell preserves the opening card that greeted audiences before the story proper began, the frame where studio branding meets the promise of digital monsters and their young human partners. Title cards like this one function as a threshold moment in 35mm film history, the last still image before motion begins, often struck in limited quantities and discarded after release runs. Collectors seek these pieces for their role as the film's first handshake with viewers, a physical relic of a theatrical run now largely remembered through home video and nostalgia.
Authentication Findings8 checks
Consistent with a 35mm theatrical release print of Digimon: The Movie (2000).
Gauge
35mm, 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 throughout the visible strip.
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 pattern visible in the inter-perforation gaps on the lower edge.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture at sufficient resolution to quote any manufacturer code or key numbers.
Base & colour
The base shows a neutral-to-cool tint consistent with a colour dye image; no obvious red shift or fading is apparent.
Projection history
No splices, cue marks or prominent scratches are visible in this capture.
Picture
Positive colour image; all three frames appear to show the same title-card composition, consistent with a title sequence from Digimon: The Movie (2000).
Era check
The combination of a variable-area optical track with apparent Dolby Digital inter-perforation data blocks is consistent with a theatrical release print from the year 2000, when that dual-format soundtrack configuration was standard.
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 000063092
Original Film CaptureAs received
Photographed on the light panel at intake, before encapsulation — tap to open full size
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