The Powerpuff Girls Movie arrived in 2002 from Warner Bros. Pictures and Cartoon Network Studios, extending Craig McCracken's Cartoon Cartoon into a feature-length origin story for Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup. The film served as both prequel and tribute to the series that had become a defining piece of early 2000s animation, explaining how Professor Utonium's three chemical creations came to defend Townsville. Its theatrical run marked a rare instance of a Cartoon Network property receiving a full cinematic release, reinforcing the brand's reach beyond television at the height of its popularity.
This cell comes from a trailer reel, built around the movie's own logo card rather than a character or action beat. Trailer and title material like this holds a particular place for collectors, as it represents the promotional apparatus built to introduce the film to audiences rather than a moment from the story itself. A logo card cell marks that threshold point, the visual signature meant to announce the production before a single scene unfolds. For collectors assembling a complete run of promotional material, this piece anchors the set as the identifying mark of the release itself.
Authentication Findings8 checks
Consistent with a 35mm release print of The Powerpuff Girls Movie trailer (2002).
Gauge
35mm layout with four perforations per frame along both edges; the strip holds three frames, each showing the same title card.
Perforations
Four per frame on both edges, evenly spaced, rounded-rectangle shape and cleanly punched, with no torn or missing holes seen.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track runs beside the picture as two white waveform lines, with a dashed line above them; Dolby Digital data blocks appear between the lower perforations.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture
Base & colour
Light blue-tinted base with a neutral black picture area; the pink and yellow title colours look saturated, with no fading seen.
Projection history
None seen at this size; no scratches, cue marks or splices are visible across the three frames.
Picture
Positive image; the three frames run consecutively as one static title card reading 'The Powerpuff Girls Movie', which matches the film on record.
Era check
Consistent with an early-2000s release print: an optical track plus Dolby Digital blocks between the perforations fits a 2002 theatrical trailer on 35mm.
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 in partnership with National Film Vault, 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.
CROWN SERIAL 000071056
Original Film CaptureAs received
Photographed on the light panel at intake, before encapsulation — tap to open full size
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