Sources: Wikidata. The record of the motion picture, not an assessment of this cell.
FILM NOTES
FILM NOTES
Digimon: The Movie arrived in 2000 as Fox Kids and Saban's stitched-together adaptation of three Japanese theatrical shorts, reworked with an American script and a soundtrack aimed squarely at the Y2K kid audience. It served as a companion piece to the Digimon television juggernaut, bringing the franchise's digital monsters to American cinemas at the height of the show's popularity. The film is best remembered for its climactic story, in which a rapidly evolving computer virus threatens the real world, a plot that gave the movie its most enduring villain and its most talked-about stretch of screen time.
This cell centers on Diaboromon, the self-replicating digital menace whose rampage forms the backbone of the film's final act, a figure prized by collectors for representing the movie's signature threat. Cherubimon appears here as Vice, a variant identity tied to that same corner of the Digimon mythos, giving this cell added interest for those tracking character variants across the franchise. As a 35mm frame, it preserves a physical fragment of the theatrical print itself, a tangible artifact from the movie's original run.
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, evenly spaced; punched edges appear clean with no visible tearing or distortion.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible along one edge, with what appears to be a second narrower track beside it, consistent with a dual variable-area stereo optical arrangement; Dolby Digital pixel blocks are visible in the inter-perforation gaps on the same edge.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture at sufficient resolution to read any key numbers or manufacturer text.
Base & colour
Base appears with a light blue tint along the borders; the dye image reads as warm with strong yellows and deep blacks, showing no obvious fading or red shift.
Projection history
No visible scratches, splice marks, or cue marks seen.
Picture
Positive colour image; the three frames appear to be consecutive frames from a single continuous shot, and the animated character style is consistent with the Digimon: The Movie (2000) release print.
Era check
The combination of dual variable-area optical track with Dolby Digital data blocks in the perforation gaps is consistent with a theatrical release print from the year 2000, when this hybrid soundtrack format 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 000063104
Original Film CaptureAs received
Photographed on the light panel at intake, before encapsulation — tap to open full size
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