The Powerpuff Girls Movie arrived in 2002 from Warner Bros. Pictures and Cartoon Network Studios, extending Craig McCracken's television hit to the big screen. The film traced the origin story of Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup, giving longtime viewers a feature length look at Townsville before the girls became its protectors. Promotional material from this period, including trailers, carried the show's distinctive flat color design and knowing humor into a wider theatrical release, helping bridge Cartoon Network's cable audience with multiplex crowds. The movie remains a touchstone of early 2000s animated marketing, a moment when cable cartoons proved they could command trailer space alongside major studio features.
This cell comes from the trailer reel and bears Mojo Jojo's name, marking his presence in the promotional footage cut to entice audiences ahead of the film's release. As the Powerpuff Girls' signature antagonist, Mojo Jojo is one of the franchise's most collected figures, a character whose verbose menace and recurring schemes became inseparable from the show's identity. A trailer cell like this one captures a single frame used to build anticipation, chosen for its promotional value rather than narrative context. For collectors, it represents an early piece of the film's public rollout, tying Mojo Jojo directly to the movie's theatrical introduction.
Authentication Findings8 checks
Consistent with a 35mm Dolby Digital release-print strip of The Powerpuff Girls Movie trailer (2002).
Gauge
35mm layout: four perforations per frame along both edges, and the strip holds three full frames running consecutively.
Perforations
Four per frame on both edges, evenly spaced and cleanly punched with rounded-rectangle holes; the strip bows slightly on the panel but the pitch is regular.
Soundtrack
Two variable-area optical tracks run beside the picture, and the gaps between the lower-edge perforations hold speckled blocks consistent with Dolby Digital data; no DTS timecode line is seen.
Edge print
A short line of faint edge print sits along the upper edge, but it is too small and indistinct to be quoted as read.
Base & colour
Clear base shows a neutral to slightly cool tint with a pale blue edge band; the dye image looks bright and neutral with no fade or red shift.
Projection history
No lines, scratches, cue marks or splices seen at this size.
Picture
Positive colour image; the three frames run consecutively as one shot of an animated character, and the cartoon look matches The Powerpuff Girls Movie trailer on record.
Era check
Optical track plus Dolby Digital blocks on a clean colour positive print is consistent with a 2002 35mm release print, as a trailer for this film would be.
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 000071098
Original Film CaptureAs received
Photographed on the light panel at intake, before encapsulation — tap to open full size
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