The Powerpuff Girls Movie arrived in 2002 from Warner Bros. Pictures and Cartoon Network Studios, extending Craig McCracken's television hit into a theatrical origin story for Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup. The film served as a feature prequel, explaining how Professor Utonium's experiment with sugar, spice, and Chemical X produced Townsville's child superheroes. Its release marked a high point for Cartoon Network's push into theatrical animation, carrying the show's bright visual style and comic tone to a wider audience while reinforcing the franchise's place in early 2000s pop culture.
This cell comes from the trailer reel for that release, preserved as a logo card, the kind of frame used to announce the film's identity before footage begins. Such cards typically carry the production's name and branding, anchoring the promotional sequence that primed audiences ahead of the movie's premiere. For collectors, trailer logo cards hold value as the opening gesture of a marketing campaign, a piece of film history tied directly to the launch of the Powerpuff Girls into theaters, marking the moment the property stepped beyond television into feature filmmaking.
Authentication Findings8 checks
Consistent with a 35mm release-print trailer for The Powerpuff Girls Movie (2002).
Gauge
35mm: four perforations per frame along both edges, and the strip holds three frames, each carrying the same title card.
Perforations
Four per frame on both edges, evenly spaced, with rounded-rectangle holes that look cleanly punched; the top edge is slightly curved by the strip's bow.
Soundtrack
Two variable-area optical tracks run beside the picture, with a dashed line above them, and grey speckled Dolby Digital data blocks sit between the lower perforations.
Edge print
Faint mirrored lettering along the top reads as 'FUJICOLOR'; yellow-brown printed numbers and codes at the upper left are only partly legible.
Base & colour
Light blue-cyan base tint at both edges, with a clean neutral black picture area and no visible dye fading or colour shift.
Projection history
No scratches, splices or cue marks seen at this size; only the bowed strip and a faint oval camera reflection, which is ignored.
Picture
Positive image; three consecutive frames repeat the same 'The Powerpuff Girls Movie' logo on black, matching the film on record.
Era check
Optical tracks plus Dolby Digital blocks on Fujicolor stock fit an early-2000s release print, which suits a 2002 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 000071061
Original Film CaptureAs received
Photographed on the light panel at intake, before encapsulation — tap to open full size
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