The Powerpuff Girls Movie brought Craig McCracken's Townsville trio to theaters in 2002, expanding the Cartoon Network series into a feature-length origin story for Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup. Released through Warner Bros. Pictures, the film arrived at a high point for the network's original animation slate, and its marketing push included theatrical trailers struck on 35mm for distribution to cinemas, a format that places this promotional material alongside genuine theatrical reels rather than television-only ephemera.
This particular cell is a Cartoon Network logo card, the network's on-screen identifier appearing within the trailer reel itself. Such cards mark the studio's branding moment, placed before or alongside the feature content to announce the originating network to theater audiences. Collectors of network ephemera and Powerpuff memorabilia alike value these cards for anchoring a trailer squarely to its broadcast home, documenting how Cartoon Network presented its feature film ventures to the public during this era of its programming history.
Authentication Findings8 checks
Consistent with a 35mm release print trailer for The Powerpuff Girls Movie (2002).
Gauge
35mm layout, four perforations per frame on both edges; the strip holds three full frames, running vertically with the Cartoon Network card.
Perforations
Four per frame on both edges, evenly spaced and cleanly punched with rounded-rectangle holes; no torn or missing perforations seen.
Soundtrack
Variable-area optical tracks (two tracks) run between the picture and the lower perforations; Dolby Digital blocks are visible in the gaps between the lower perforations.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture
Base & colour
Clear base with a light blue-cyan edge tint; the dye image looks saturated and neutral, with no red shift or fading seen.
Projection history
None seen at this size; no scratches, splices or cue marks visible in this section.
Picture
Positive image; the three frames run consecutively as one shot showing a Cartoon Network logo card, consistent with a Cartoon Network trailer for the film on record.
Era check
Optical track plus Dolby Digital data between the perforations on a positive 35mm print fits a 2002 theatrical release 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 000071072
Original Film CaptureAs received
Photographed on the light panel at intake, before encapsulation — tap to open full size
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