The Powerpuff Girls Movie Trailer arrived in 2002 as a theatrical promotion for the feature film expanding Craig McCracken's Cartoon Network series into a big-screen origin story. The trailer circulated on 35mm ahead of the movie's release, giving audiences an early look at Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup before their theatrical debut. As a piece of promotional ephemera tied to one of Cartoon Network's defining properties of the era, it sits at an interesting crossroads between television animation and feature film marketing, a format most collectors associate with original cartoon shorts rather than studio spin-offs.
This particular cell preserves the Cartoon Network logo card, the network identifier that would have appeared within the trailer reel itself. Such cards function as bridging material, marking the sponsoring network's presence before or after promotional footage runs, and they are often struck in smaller quantities than the feature content surrounding them. For collectors assembling a complete run of Powerpuff Girls promotional material, the logo card represents a foundational piece, tying the trailer directly to its broadcast and distribution origins and anchoring the reel to Cartoon Network's branding at the height of the franchise's popularity.
Authentication Findings8 checks
Consistent with a 35mm release print of The Powerpuff Girls Movie trailer (2002).
Gauge
35mm, with four perforations per frame along both edges; the strip holds three frames.
Perforations
Four per frame on both edges, evenly spaced and cleanly punched, with the rounded-rectangle shape of standard 35mm.
Soundtrack
Two variable-area optical tracks run beside the picture, with Dolby Digital data blocks in the gaps between the perforations on the sound edge.
Edge print
A reversed 'FUJICOLOR' legend reads along the top edge; no other key numbers or codes are legible in this capture.
Base & colour
Light blue-tinted base, as on Fuji print stock, with a neutral dye image and no visible fading or red shift.
Projection history
No scratches, cue marks or splices seen at this size; the strip looks clean, with no clear sign of projection wear.
Picture
Positive image; the three frames run consecutively as one shot, and the Cartoon Network logo on screen fits a Cartoon Network trailer.
Era check
A Fuji base with analog optical and Dolby Digital sound fits an early-2000s release print, which matches 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 000071070
Original Film CaptureAs received
Photographed on the light panel at intake, before encapsulation — tap to open full size
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