Sources: Wikidata. The record of the motion picture, not an assessment of this cell.
FILM NOTES
Digimon: The Movie arrived in American theaters in 2000 through Fox Kids and Saban, stitching together three Japanese Digimon features into a single English-language release aimed at the franchise's growing fanbase. It landed at the height of the Digimon and Pokemon era, when monster-collecting properties dominated Saturday morning television and merchandising alike. For many young viewers this was their first and only theatrical exposure to the Digidestined and their partners, making the film a genuine artifact of that early-2000s children's entertainment boom rather than a footnote in a longer television run.
This cell pairs MetalGreymon and WereGarurumon, two of the digivolved forms most sought after by collectors precisely because they represent the power and spectacle promised by the show's core premise, ordinary partners transforming into formidable protectors. Appearing together on a single strip of 35mm suggests a moment built around their combined presence, the kind of pairing that trailers and promotional cells favored to sell the scale of the film. For fans, holding both champions together in one frame speaks directly to the appeal of the movie itself: teamwork rendered as raw evolutionary power.
Authentication Findings8 checks
Consistent with a 35mm theatrical release print of Digimon: The Movie (2000).
Gauge
35mm, four perforations per frame visible on both edges; the strip holds three frames across two rows, totalling six frames.
Perforations
Four per frame on both edges; spacing appears even and the punched edges appear clean with no torn or deformed holes visible.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible running along the lower edge of the strip, with what appears to be a Dolby Digital data-block region also present between the perforations on the lower edge.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture at sufficient resolution to read manufacturer codes or key numbers.
Base & colour
The clear base shows a blue-tinted border strip; the dye image in the upper frames reads as a warm amber-gold, and the lower frames show a cyan-blue image, consistent with a colour print stock.
Projection history
No visible scratches, splice marks, or cue marks are apparent in this capture.
Picture
Positive colour images; the three upper frames appear consecutive and the three lower frames appear consecutive; the golden trophy-like figure and the blue animated creature are consistent with promotional or title-sequence imagery from Digimon: The Movie (2000).
Era check
The combination of a variable-area optical track, apparent Dolby Digital data blocks, and colour positive 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 000063105
Original Film CaptureAs received
Photographed on the light panel at intake, before encapsulation — tap to open full size
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