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FILM NOTES
FILM NOTES
Digimon: The Movie arrived in 2000 as Fox Kids and Saban's attempt to bring the popular anime franchise to American theaters, stitched together from three separate Toei-produced Japanese films and reworked with new dialogue and music for Western audiences. It landed at the height of Digimon's competition with Pokemon for young audiences, offering fans a big-screen extension of the television series' core cast and their partner creatures. The film is a snapshot of that early 2000s children's entertainment boom, when television properties routinely made the leap to theatrical release, and it remains a marker of the franchise's peak visibility in the United States.
This cell brings together Tai Kamiya and Izzy Izumi, two of the original DigiDestined and among the most recognizable figures in the franchise's founding team. Tai served as the group's de facto leader, while Izzy filled the role of resident strategist and technical mind, and collectors prize material pairing the two for what it represents of the team's balance between instinct and intellect. A shared appearance places them together in a moment of the story's unfolding action, the kind of pairing that anchors the franchise's ensemble dynamic on film.
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 edges appear clean throughout the visible strip.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible below the picture area, appearing as two bilateral variable-area tracks, with a Dolby Digital data block strip and what appears to be a DTS timecode line also present between the track area and the lower perforations.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture at sufficient resolution to read any key numbers or manufacturer text.
Base & colour
Base appears with a slight blue-tinted border surround from the light panel; the image area itself shows a warm, saturated dye image with no visible fading or red shift.
Projection history
No visible scratches, splice marks, or cue marks are apparent in this capture.
Picture
Positive colour image; all three frames appear to be consecutive frames from a single shot, and the animated character style is consistent with the Digimon: The Movie (2000) release.
Era check
The combination of bilateral variable-area optical track, Dolby Digital data blocks, and apparent DTS timecode line is consistent with a theatrical release print from the year 2000, when multi-format soundtrack encoding 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 000063108
Original Film CaptureAs received
Photographed on the light panel at intake, before encapsulation — tap to open full size
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