CrownGrading Pro
Crown Portal
Submit cards Submissions Start your submissions Submission walkthrough Grading process Pre-Grade estimator Film authentication Programs Crown Ascension Crown Royal Tier Resources About Crown CrownStandard Knowledge Center CrownVault Contact Crown Portal
Ready to grade your cards? Submit Cards →
Crown Grading

Crown Grading

OFFICIAL MOTION PICTURE FILM AUTHENTICATION
A
AUTHENTIC
CROWN CERTIFIED
Film cell 000067095 Tap to enlarge
MOVIEPokémon: The Movie 2000 - Trailer
SCENEBlank Trailer Frames
FILM FORMAT35mm
YEAR2000
CERTIFICATE ID000067095

FILM NOTES

Pokémon: The Movie 2000 arrived at the height of Pokémania, when Warner Bros. and Nintendo's marketing machine pushed the franchise's second theatrical feature into wide American release. Built around the Legendary birds and Lugia, the film served as a follow up to the surprise box office success of the first Pokémon movie, and its promotional trailer helped sustain a merchandising and media wave that defined late nineties and early two thousands youth culture. Preserved trailer material from this period offers a window into how the studio sold animated properties to a generation raised on Saturday morning television and midweek theatrical previews.

This particular cell comes from the trailer reel itself, specifically a stretch of blank frames, the kind of leader or spacer footage that exists between spliced segments rather than animated content. Collectors seek these pieces not for character artwork but for their place in the physical assembly of promotional film, evidence of how theatrical trailers were literally cut and joined by hand. A blank frame section speaks to the mechanics of distribution rather than story, a quiet gap in the reel that still carries the weight of the era's exhibition history.

Authentication Findings 8 checks

Consistent with a 35mm Kodak 2383 theatrical release print of the era of Pokémon: The Movie 2000

Gauge
35mm, four perforations per frame on both edges; the strip holds three full frames
Perforations
Four per frame on each edge, evenly spaced; punched holes appear cleanly cut with no visible tearing
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible along one edge, and a row of Dolby Digital data blocks is visible in the inter-perforation gaps on the same edge, consistent with a dual-format optical release print
Edge print
Edge print reads, mirrored: '2383 372 039 B 30 K-ODAK 16 2000 K' — indicating Kodak Vision print stock with key numbers
Base & colour
Base carries a light cyan-blue tint typical of Kodak print stock; the dye image in the frame areas appears neutral grey, consistent with unexposed or leader frames
Projection history
Light horizontal streaking is visible in the soundtrack area, consistent with a print that has passed through a projector
Picture
Frames are effectively clear or near-black with no discernible image content; they appear to be unexposed or leader sections rather than picture frames, so a match to the film on record cannot be confirmed from image content alone
Era check
The Kodak 2383 print stock, Dolby Digital inter-perforation data blocks, and dual optical track layout are all consistent with a 1999–2000 theatrical release print of the period
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 Capture As received
The film strip as photographed on the light panel at intake, before encapsulation
Photographed on the light panel at intake, before encapsulation — tap to open full size