National Film Vault

FILM NOTES

Universal Pictures released Jurassic Park in June 1993, directed by Steven Spielberg and produced through Amblin Entertainment. Adapted from Michael Crichton's novel, the film redefined visual effects by combining practical animatronics with pioneering computer-generated imagery, permanently shifting the course of blockbuster filmmaking. Its cultural and technical legacy remains substantial, and original 35mm release prints are increasingly sought by collectors as physical artifacts of that landmark production.

This cell, titled Velociraptor, presents three successive frames capturing a Velociraptor observed through a circular porthole or window against a dark background, consistent with the film's celebrated kitchen sequence. The slight positional variation across the three frames preserves a sense of the animal's movement, offering a rare and immediate fragment of one of cinema's most iconic predator encounters.