MOVIEThe Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Movie Trailer
SCENEBoromir
FILM FORMAT35mm
YEAR2001
CERTIFICATE IDNFV-000001794
FILM NOTES
New Line Cinema released The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring in December 2001, the first installment of Peter Jackson's adaptation of Tolkien's trilogy. Shot entirely in New Zealand, the production was a gamble that became a cultural landmark, reviving large scale fantasy filmmaking and setting a new standard for effects driven epics. The teaser and theatrical trailers that preceded release helped build enormous anticipation, introducing audiences to Middle earth's cast and tone months before the film itself arrived in theaters.
This cell preserves a frame of Boromir from that promotional reel, a character whose arc of loyalty, temptation, and sacrifice made him one of the story's most human figures. Trailer cells like this one served as the first visual handshake between studio and audience, distilling character and atmosphere into a single frame meant to entice rather than explain. For collectors, a Boromir piece from the original trailer run captures that pre release moment, when the Fellowship existed only in glimpses, and represents an early artifact of the marketing campaign that helped launch one of cinema's defining trilogies.
Authentication Findings8 checks
Consistent with a 35mm theatrical release print of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.
Gauge
35mm, four perforations per frame visible on both edges; the strip holds three frames.
Perforations
Four per frame on both edges; spacing appears even and the punched edges appear clean.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible running along one edge beside the picture area, consistent with a mono or stereo optical track; Dolby Digital pixel blocks appear present in the inter-perforation gaps on the lower strip edge.
Edge print
Text reading '...OF THE KING' is visible printed across the picture area in the frame image itself, not on the film edge; edge print along the base edge is not legible at this capture resolution.
Base & colour
The clear base shows a neutral to very slightly warm tint; the dye image appears fully saturated with no visible fading or colour shift.
Projection history
Light horizontal abrasion lines are visible across the frame area, consistent with a print that has passed through a projector gate.
Picture
Positive colour image; all three frames appear to be consecutive frames from a single continuous shot; the imagery is consistent with a theatrical release print of the film on record.
Era check
The combination of a variable-area optical track, Dolby Digital inter-perforation data blocks, and a fully saturated colour positive base is consistent with a 35mm theatrical release print from the early 2000s, matching the period 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 000063654
Original Film CaptureAs received
Photographed on the light panel at intake, before encapsulation — tap to open full size
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