The Powerpuff Girls Movie arrived in 2002 as Cartoon Network's big-screen expansion of its hit series, produced by Craig McCracken's team and released theatrically by Warner Bros. The film served as an origin story for Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup, explaining their creation through Professor Utonium's lab accident, and it extended a television property into a format aimed at both longtime viewers and newcomers encountering the trio for the first time. Trailers and marketing materials for the release are now scarce artifacts of that theatrical push, circulated briefly in cinemas before the home video era absorbed most promotional ephemera.
This cell preserves a logo card from that trailer reel, the kind of frame used to announce the production before footage begins. Such cards typically carry the film's name and identity rather than a character or scene, marking the transition point where audiences understood what they were about to watch. For collectors, a logo card holds value as the clearest link between strip and release, a fixed point of reference tying an unlabeled reel fragment directly to The Powerpuff Girls Movie itself.
Authentication Findings8 checks
Consistent with a 35mm release-print trailer strip for The Powerpuff Girls Movie (2002).
Gauge
Four perforations per frame along both edges, the 35mm layout; the strip holds three frames, each showing the same title card.
Perforations
Four per frame on both the top and bottom edges, evenly spaced, with rounded-rectangle holes that look cleanly punched and uniform.
Soundtrack
Two white variable-area optical tracks run beside the picture, and a Dolby Digital data pattern sits between the lower perforations; no DTS timecode or SDDS tracks are visible.
Edge print
A faint line of reversed characters runs along the top edge but is not legible, so no manufacturer text or key numbers can be quoted.
Base & colour
The base shows a pale blue edge tint with a neutral clear picture area; the dye image reads as saturated and not visibly faded.
Projection history
No scratches, cue marks or splices seen at this size; a dark oval on the middle frame is the phone camera reflected in the base.
Picture
A positive image: three consecutive identical frames of a pink and yellow 'The Powerpuff Girls Movie' logo on black, matching the film on record.
Era check
Dual optical tracks plus Dolby Digital blocks suit an early-2000s 35mm release print, consistent with a 2002 trailer for this film.
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 000071059
Original Film CaptureAs received
Photographed on the light panel at intake, before encapsulation — tap to open full size
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