National Film Vault

FILM NOTES

Phil Lord and Christopher Miller's The Lego Movie arrived in February 2014 through Warner Bros. Pictures, defying expectations for what a feature built around a toy brand could achieve. Blending anarchic humor with genuine emotional resonance, it became a cultural touchstone of mid-2010s animation and a commercial triumph that launched an entire cinematic franchise.

This 35mm cell captures a sequential trio of frames from an interior adventure sequence, presenting the film's central trio in close proximity. Emmet Brickowski and Wyldstyle occupy the foreground while Vitruvius appears positioned above them, a composition that reflects the dynamic these three characters share throughout the story. The slight framing shifts across the frames confirm their origin as consecutive moments from a single continuous shot.