National Film Vault

FILM NOTES

Warner Bros. released The Lego Movie in February 2014, directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller. The film arrived as an unlikely prestige animated feature, blending irreverent humor with genuine emotional weight, and became both a critical and commercial landmark that reshaped expectations for branded entertainment. Its success launched an entire franchise and cemented Lord and Miller as defining voices in contemporary Hollywood comedy.

This cell, titled Opening Credits by the operator, captures the title card crediting Phil Lord and Christopher Miller through their prior work on Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. The frame repeats across three sequential exposures on the strip, a characteristic artifact of how opening credit sequences were photographed onto 35mm release prints in this period.