The Powerpuff Girls Movie arrived in 2002 as Cartoon Network's theatrical expansion of Craig McCracken's hit series, distributed through Warner Bros. The film served as an origin story for Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup, explaining their creation and early days in Townsville before the show's established adventures. Marketing for the release leaned heavily on Cartoon Network's own branding, since the network had built the Powerpuff Girls into one of its flagship properties throughout the late 1990s. The trailer campaign that preceded the film's release is part of that promotional history, carrying the network's identity alongside the girls themselves.
This cell preserves a Cartoon Network logo card from that trailer run, a studio identifier rather than a character or story moment. Logo cards like this mark the network's presence at the front end of promotional reels, a piece of branding collectors seek out as a companion to character cells from the same release. For Powerpuff Girls Movie material, a Cartoon Network card ties the trailer directly to its original network distribution, offering a tangible link to how audiences first encountered the film before it reached theaters in 2002.
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 complete frames side by side.
Perforations
Four per frame on both edges, evenly spaced, with cleanly punched rounded-rectangle holes and no visible tears or missing perforations.
Soundtrack
A two-track variable-area optical track runs beside the picture, with Dolby Digital data blocks visible in the gaps between the lower perforations.
Edge print
A faint mirrored 'SAFETY FILM' print appears along the top edge; no key numbers or other codes are legible.
Base & colour
Clear base with a pale cyan-blue tint at the edges; the dye image looks neutral to warm, with no obvious fading or red shift.
Projection history
No scratches, cue marks or splices seen at this size; the strip looks clean.
Picture
Positive image; the three frames run consecutively as one shot of the Cartoon Network logo card, which fits a trailer for a Cartoon Network film like The Powerpuff Girls Movie.
Era check
Consistent with a 2002 release print: analogue optical track plus Dolby Digital blocks on a safety-base positive match theatrical prints of that 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 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 000071069
Original Film CaptureAs received
Photographed on the light panel at intake, before encapsulation — tap to open full size
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