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OFFICIAL FILM AUTHENTICATION BY CROWN GRADING
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Film cell NFV-000003450 Tap to enlarge
MOVIEPokémon: The Movie 2000 Trailer
SCENESlowking
FILM FORMAT35mm
YEAR2000
CERTIFICATE IDNFV-000003450

FILM NOTES

Pokémon: The Movie 2000 arrived from Warner Bros. and Nintendo at the height of Pokémania, a theatrical follow-up to the 1999 original that aimed to keep the franchise's crossover momentum alive. Promoted heavily through television spots and theatrical trailers, it introduced American audiences to the Legendary birds and to Slowking, a character drawn from the games and animated series but rarely given screen prominence. For collectors, trailer material from this era captures Pokémon's brief but total dominance of the pop culture landscape, when a movie promo reel carried the same weight as a toy launch.

This cell preserves a trailer appearance of Slowking, a figure whose scarcity in Pokémon media makes any isolated frame of him a point of interest. Trailer cells like this one were cut for promotional use, built to tease audiences ahead of the feature rather than tell its story outright, which gives them a distinct identity apart from the film proper. Slowking's inclusion signals the movie's effort to showcase lesser-seen Pokémon alongside its headline Legendaries, and for collectors focused on character rarity within early movie promotional reels, this piece fills a specific and often overlooked niche.

Authentication Findings 8 checks

Consistent with a 35mm Dolby Digital release print trailer for Pokémon: The Movie 2000.

Gauge
35mm: four perforations per frame along both edges, and the strip holds three full frames, with the picture area running between the two perforation rows.
Perforations
Four per frame on both the top and bottom edges, rounded-rectangle holes that look evenly spaced and cleanly punched, with no torn or missing holes seen.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track with two tracks sits beside the picture, and there are speckled blocks in the gaps between the lower perforations that look like Dolby Digital data.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture
Base & colour
The base looks clear to faintly blue-tinted at the edges, and the dye image appears neutral with no obvious fading or colour shift at this size.
Projection history
No scratches, splices or cue marks seen; the only marks are a round dark reflection on the third frame, which is the phone camera on the glossy base.
Picture
Positive colour image, three consecutive frames of one shot, and the animated cel look is plausible for the film on record, with no title card or text to confirm.
Era check
Consistent with a 2000-era release print, since a two-track optical track plus Dolby Digital data between the perforations was the standard 35mm combination then.
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 000071225
Original Film Capture As received
The film strip as photographed on the light panel at intake, before encapsulation
Photographed on the light panel at intake, before encapsulation — tap to open full size