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Disney released Hocus Pocus in 1993, a Halloween comedy built around three witch sisters brought back from Salem to modern day Massachusetts. It underperformed in theaters but found its true audience through home video and annual television airings, growing into a seasonal perennial that now anchors October programming for a generation who first watched it as children. That afterlife, more than its initial box office, is what secures the film's lasting place in genre and holiday film culture, and why memorabilia from it continues to draw steady collector interest decades later.
This cell centers on Sarah Sanderson, played by Sarah Jessica Parker, the flirtatious and impulsive middle sister of the Sanderson trio, often remembered as the most whimsically dangerous of the three for her lilting charm and her habit of luring children with song. Collectors seek her likeness because she balances the group's darker menace with a lighter, almost playful energy that made her instantly quotable. A frame preserved under her name captures a moment tied specifically to her presence in the story, a keepsake of the character's identity within the Sanderson sisters' shared mythology.
Consistent with a 35mm theatrical release print of Hocus Pocus (1993).
