Academy Awards — 1 win, 2 nominationsAll 1 wins · 2 nominations on record
Academy Awards: Best Visual Effects
Scholarship
Named in the title of 3 peer-reviewed works
Examples
9. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom: anything goes — Columbia University Press eBooks, 2007
Masculinidades en Indiana Jones and the temple of doom (Spielberg 1984) — Revista de Ciencias de la Comunicación e Información, 2007
The Adventures of Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark/Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom/Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade — Sight & sound/Sight and sound, 2004
Sources: Wikidata · OpenAlex · Library of Congress. The record of the motion picture, not an assessment of this cell.
FILM NOTES
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom arrived from Paramount in 1984, the second entry in the series Steven Spielberg and George Lucas built around a two-fisted archaeologist for adventure serials of an earlier age. Its darker tone and stunt-driven set pieces made it a defining, if divisive, chapter of 1980s blockbuster filmmaking, cementing Harrison Ford's Indiana Jones as one of cinema's most recognizable adventurers.
This cell simply names Indiana Jones, the character at the center of the franchise, without further context beyond that identity. For collectors, a strip bearing his name alone represents the character in his purest form, detached from any single stunt or line, standing for the whip, the hat, and the persona that carried three films by this point. Such a cell functions as a marker of presence rather than narrative, the kind of frame archivists prize precisely because it distills the icon down to his name and nothing else.
Authentication Findings8 checks
Consistent with a 35mm theatrical release print of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984).
Gauge
35mm, confirmed by four perforations per frame on both edges; the strip holds three frames.
Perforations
Four per frame on both edges, evenly spaced, cleanly punched with no torn or deformed holes visible.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible running along the bottom edge beside the perforations, appearing as a dual variable-area (stereo) format.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture at sufficient resolution to read any key numbers or manufacturer text.
Base & colour
The base shows a warm cream-yellow tint consistent with an acetate safety base; the dye image reads with cool blue-dominant tones and no obvious fading or red shift.
Projection history
No visible splices, cue marks, or heavy scratching are apparent; the surface appears consistent with a projected release print.
Picture
Positive colour image; all three frames appear to be from the same continuous shot, and the subject matter is consistent with the adventure film on record.
Era check
The dual variable-area optical soundtrack, warm acetate base tint, and colour dye structure are all consistent with a mid-1980s theatrical release print of the film on record.
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 000063300
Original Film CaptureAs received
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