MOVIEPokémon the Movie: Hoopa and the Clash of Ages
SCENELugia, Ash, Pikachu and Hoopa Attacked
FILM FORMAT35mm
YEAR2015
CERTIFICATE ID000064945
Film RecordPublic record
Directed by
Kunihiko Yuyama
Studio
OLM, Inc. · 73 min
Sources: Wikidata. The record of the motion picture, not an assessment of this cell.
FILM NOTES
Pokémon the Movie: Hoopa and the Clash of Ages arrived in 2015 as the eighteenth entry in the long running theatrical franchise, produced by OLM under the Pokémon Company banner and distributed as part of the annual summer film tradition that had carried the series since 1998. The film revisited the Djinn Pokémon Hoopa and brought back Lugia, one of the franchise's signature Legendary Pokémon, tying the movie to the deeper mythology fans associate with the Lugia design first popularized in Pokémon 2000. Entries featuring Lugia carry weight with longtime collectors for that reason alone.
This cell captures a moment described as an attack sequence involving Lugia, Ash, Pikachu, and Hoopa together in frame, placing the franchise's original human and Pokémon leads directly alongside two Legendary figures. For collectors, a scene uniting Ash and Pikachu with Lugia and Hoopa represents a rare convergence of the series' most enduring mascot and one of its most sought after Legendary designs, making this a desirable piece for anyone building a collection around pivotal Legendary encounters in the film's mid-2010s era.
Authentication Findings8 checks
Consistent with a 35mm stereoscopic release print of Pokémon the Movie: Hoopa and the Clash of Ages.
Gauge
35mm, confirmed by four perforations per frame on both edges; the strip holds two frames side by side in a dual-strip (stereoscopic) arrangement, each frame occupying roughly half the image width.
Perforations
Four per frame on each edge; spacing appears even and the punched edges look clean with no torn or missing perforations visible.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible as a light-blue band running the full length of the strip below the picture area, appearing to show a dual bilateral or variable-area pattern; no Dolby Digital inter-perforation data blocks, DTS timecode line, or SDDS outer-edge tracks are discernible.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture.
Base & colour
The clear base shows a slight cool-blue tint consistent with modern safety stock; the dye image reads with strong blue-violet and white tones, appearing well-saturated with no obvious fading or red shift.
Projection history
No visible scratches, splice marks, or cue marks are seen.
Picture
Positive colour image; the two frames appear to be a matched stereo pair of the same moment rather than consecutive sequential frames, consistent with a 3D release print; the subject matter is consistent with the animated Pokémon film on record.
Era check
The variable-area optical soundtrack, cool-tinted polyester-base stock, and dual side-by-side stereoscopic frame layout are all consistent with a 2015 theatrical 3D release print 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, 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.
Original Film CaptureAs received
Photographed on the light panel at intake, before encapsulation — tap to open full size
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