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FILM NOTES

Warner Bros. distributed Pokémon: The Movie 2000 in North America in July 2000, arriving at the peak of the franchise's cultural saturation. Produced by OLM and 4Kids Entertainment, the film expanded on the television series with a mythological scope centered on the Legendary birds and Lugia. It remains a document of a specific moment when anime crossed fully into mainstream American cinema.

This cell, titled Team Rocket, Ash and Friends, captures a tense sequence in which Ash Ketchum and Team Rocket — Jessie, James, and Meowth — share a small inflatable raft on stormy purple-blue ocean water. The four frames follow consecutive moments from the same scene, offering an unusual view of rivals forced into uneasy proximity against a turbulent sea.