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 attempt to stitch together three separate Japanese Digimon theatrical shorts into a single American release, riding the wave of monster-collecting anime that Pokémon had opened up for Western audiences. It gave American fans their first big-screen exposure to the DigiDestined and their partners, cementing the franchise's foothold in Saturday morning culture and home video collections. As a piece of turn of the millennium kids' entertainment, it remains a touchstone for a generation raised on digital monsters and the promise of evolution.
This cell pairs Agumon and Tentomon, two of the original partner Digimon whose bond with their human tamers anchors the franchise's appeal to collectors. Agumon, Tai's fiery reptilian companion, and Tentomon, Izzy's steady insect ally, represent the show's core theme of friendship carried across species and screens. A 35mm cell bearing both characters together speaks to a shared scene, the kind of pairing fans seek out to commemorate teamwork rather than solo heroics, a physical fragment of the film's theatrical run preserved outside video and streaming formats.
Authentication Findings8 checks
Consistent with a 35mm theatrical release print of Digimon: The Movie (2000).
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 holes appear cleanly cut with no visible tearing.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible running along the bottom edge beside the perforations, appearing as a two-track variable-area pattern; Dolby Digital pixel blocks are also visible in the inter-perforation gaps on the bottom edge, and a DTS timecode stripe appears as a thin line along the outer bottom margin.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture at sufficient resolution to quote any text or key numbers.
Base & colour
The base shows a light blue-cyan tint consistent with a colour print stock; the dye image appears warm-toned with no obvious fading or red shift.
Projection history
Light vertical scratching is visible running through all three frames, 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, and the animated characters visible are consistent with the Digimon: The Movie (2000) release.
Era check
The combination of variable-area optical track, Dolby Digital inter-perforation data blocks, DTS timecode stripe, and cyan-base colour print stock is consistent with a theatrical release print from the year 2000.
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 000063101
Original Film CaptureAs received
Photographed on the light panel at intake, before encapsulation — tap to open full size
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