Pokémon: The Movie 2000 arrived at the height of Pokémania, when Warner Bros. and Nintendo's partnership turned a Game Boy phenomenon into a theatrical event. Following hot on the heels of the first film's blockbuster success, this sequel kept the franchise's momentum alive on the big screen, with Kids WB serving as the television home that had built the audience hungry for it. The network's branding was inseparable from the Pokémon craze, airing the series daily and priming millions of young viewers for each cinematic outing.
This cell preserves a trailer moment bearing the Kids WB presentation card, the kind of studio signature that opened countless promotional reels and tied a film directly to its broadcast lineage. Such cards are prized by collectors as artifacts of a specific marketing era, when network identity and film promotion were tightly bound together. For Pokémon memorabilia in particular, these pieces mark the intersection of television history and theatrical anticipation, a tangible fragment of how a generation first learned a new movie was coming.
Authentication Findings8 checks
Consistent with a 35mm release-print trailer for Pokémon: The Movie 2000.
Gauge
35mm: four perforations per frame along both edges, and the strip holds three frames.
Perforations
Four per frame on both the top and bottom edges, evenly spaced, rounded-rectangle, cleanly punched with no visible tears.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track runs beside the picture, with Dolby Digital data blocks visible in the gaps between the lower-edge perforations.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture
Base & colour
Pale blue tinted base with a neutral dye image and no visible fading or colour shift.
Projection history
None seen at this size; the dark oval on the middle frame is a camera reflection and is ignored.
Picture
Positive image; the three frames repeat one held shot and match a Kids' WB 'Presents' card, which fits a trailer for the film on record.
Era check
Consistent with a 2000-era release print: analogue optical track plus Dolby Digital data blocks suit a theatrical trailer 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 000071235
Original Film CaptureAs received
Photographed on the light panel at intake, before encapsulation — tap to open full size
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