Sources: Wikidata. The record of the motion picture, not an assessment of this cell.
FILM NOTES
Digimon: The Movie arrived in 2000 as Fox Kids and Saban's stitched-together reworking of three Japanese Digimon theatrical shorts, released to ride the crest of the franchise's American television success. It compressed the original films into a single feature aimed squarely at the Saturday morning audience, pairing digital monster battles with the era's saturation marketing push. While critically an odd hybrid, it remains a fixture of turn of the millennium children's cinema, a snapshot of how anime properties were localized and packaged for American multiplexes during that boom period of importation.
This cell centers on Diaboromon, the self-replicating antagonist whose rampage across the internet forms the climactic threat of the film's final act. Collectors seek him out as the standout villain of the movie, a digital menace whose design and menace linger longer than the human cast around him. A single 35mm frame of this character carries the weight of that climax, a fragment pulled from the movie's most consequential stretch of footage rather than an incidental shot.
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 each edge; spacing appears even; corners appear rounded and cleanly punched with no visible torn edges.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible along one edge; Dolby Digital pixel blocks between perforations are not clearly distinguishable; DTS timecode line and SDDS outer-edge tracks are not visible in this capture.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture at sufficient resolution to read any key numbers or manufacturer text.
Base & colour
Base carries a light blue-cyan tint; dye image appears warm with no visible fading, consistent with a well-preserved colour print.
Projection history
Light horizontal striations visible across the lower strip area, consistent with evidence of a projected print; no splice or cue marks visible.
Picture
Positive colour image; all three frames appear to show the same or near-identical composition, consistent with a very short consecutive shot; subject matter is consistent with animated content matching the film on record.
Era check
A 35mm positive print with variable-area optical soundtrack and cyan-tinted safety base is fully consistent with a year-2000 theatrical release print of Digimon: The Movie.
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 000063099
Original Film CaptureAs received
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