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FILM NOTES

Warner Bros. distributed Pokémon: The First Movie in North America in November 1998, bringing the phenomenon from television screens to theaters at the height of the franchise's cultural saturation. Produced by OLM, Inc. and originally released in Japan earlier that year, the film marked a significant moment in anime's crossover into mainstream Western cinema, drawing record opening weekends and introducing a generation of young audiences to theatrical animation from Japan.

This cell captures Team Rocket's James and Jessie in a tense surveillance moment, the two crouched and stacked behind a wooden pillar in warm amber light. Their characteristic reddish-brown hair is visible across both frames, the lower angle of the second image emphasizing Jessie's crouched position beneath James as the pair observe unseen events unfolding nearby.