The Powerpuff Girls Movie arrived in 2002 from Warner Bros. Pictures and Cartoon Network Studios, extending Craig McCracken's television hit into a feature-length origin story for Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup. The film served as a prequel, showing Professor Utonium's creation of the girls and their rocky start as Townsville's protectors before they became beloved heroes. Coming at the height of the Powerpuff Girls' cultural reach, the movie brought the show's sugar-and-spice aesthetic to theaters, reinforcing the franchise's crossover appeal between children and adult audiences drawn to its stylized animation and wit.
This cell preserves a logo card from the film's trailer, the kind of frame used to announce the title before footage rolls or to close out a preview with the production's branding firmly in place. Logo cards like this one are prized by collectors because they mark a specific promotional moment, tying the reel directly to the marketing push surrounding the movie's theatrical release. As a trailer element rather than a narrative frame, it stands apart from story cells, offering a piece of the film's advertising history and a tangible artifact from the campaign that introduced The Powerpuff Girls Movie to wider audiences.
Authentication Findings8 checks
Consistent with a 35mm release-print trailer strip of The Powerpuff Girls Movie (2002).
Gauge
Four perforations per frame along both edges, the 35mm layout; the strip holds three frames, each carrying the same title card.
Perforations
Four per frame on both the top and bottom edges, evenly spaced, rounded-rectangle holes that look cleanly punched.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track runs between the picture and the lower perforations, two tracks, with Dolby Digital data blocks visible in the gaps between the lower perforations.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture
Base & colour
Light cyan-blue tint on the edge margins of the base; the dye image looks neutral and unfaded, with strong saturated colours on the black.
Projection history
No lines, scratches, cue marks or splices seen at this size.
Picture
Positive image; three consecutive frames repeat the same Powerpuff Girls Movie logo card on black, matching the film on record.
Era check
Optical track plus Dolby Digital data blocks fits a 2002 35mm release print, and the title card matches that film's trailer.
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 000071060
Original Film CaptureAs received
Photographed on the light panel at intake, before encapsulation — tap to open full size
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