The Powerpuff Girls Movie Trailer circulated in 2002 to promote the feature film produced by Cartoon Network Studios and Warner Bros., expanding a beloved television property into theatrical release. The series, created by Craig McCracken, had already built a devoted audience through its blend of candy colored aesthetics and genuine action, and the film served as an origin story for Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup. Trailer reels from this period are scarce in physical 35mm form, since promotional prints were produced in limited runs and typically destroyed or discarded after theatrical use, making surviving fragments a niche but meaningful corner of animation history.
This cell preserves a moment from that promotional reel centered on Blossom, the self-appointed leader of the trio and the character most associated with strategy and resolve within the group. A cell described as Blossom Fighting points to the action register the film promised audiences, a glimpse meant to signal stakes and spectacle ahead of release. Trailer cells like this one occupy a particular collector niche, valued for capturing marketing material rather than finished film footage, offering a different kind of artifact than a frame drawn from the feature itself.
Authentication Findings8 checks
Consistent with a 35mm release print of The Powerpuff Girls Movie trailer (2002).
Gauge
Four perforations per frame along both edges, consistent with 35mm; the strip holds three frames, one of them cut off at the left edge.
Perforations
Four per frame on both edges, evenly spaced and cleanly punched with rounded-rectangle holes, no torn or missing perforations seen.
Soundtrack
A dual variable-area optical track runs beside the picture, and Dolby Digital data blocks sit in the gaps between the lower perforations.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture
Base & colour
Light blue tint at the outer edges of the base, with a neutral clear base between the perforations; the dye image looks saturated, not faded or red-shifted.
Projection history
No scratches, cue marks or splices seen at this size; the frames and track look clean.
Picture
Positive image; the three frames run consecutively as one continuous shot, and the cartoon style matches The Powerpuff Girls Movie trailer on record.
Era check
Dual optical track plus Dolby Digital blocks fits a 2002 35mm release print, and the clean blue-tinted base is plausible for stock 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 000071087
Original Film CaptureAs received
Photographed on the light panel at intake, before encapsulation — tap to open full size
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