Crown Grading

FILM NOTES

Warner Bros. distributed Pokémon: The First Movie in North America in November 1999, adapting the theatrical feature that had already broken records in Japan the previous year. The film arrived at the peak of the franchise's cultural saturation, making its promotional materials — including the 1998 teaser trailer — significant documents of that moment in animation and merchandising history.

This cell captures Mewtwo across what reads as a continuous sequence within a darkened laboratory chamber, framed by vertical blue energy columns. The progression moves from Mewtwo floating in near-darkness, through the formation of a surrounding blue orb, to a fully intensified energy sphere. It is a quiet, foreboding introduction to the film's central figure.