National Film Vault

OFFICIAL FILM AUTHENTICATION BY CROWN GRADING

AUTHENTIC

CROWN CERTIFIED

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MOVIEPokémon: The Movie 2000 Trailer

SCENEAsh Throwing A Poké Ball

FILM FORMAT35mm

YEAR2000

CERTIFICATE IDNFV-000003484

FILM NOTES

Pokémon: The Movie 2000 arrived in theaters as Warner Bros. and Nintendo capitalized on the franchise's explosive turn of the millennium popularity, following the surprise success of the first Pokémon film. The trailer that preceded it was part of the promotional push that kept the Pokémon craze alive in American multiplexes, giving fans a preview reel built from footage and new animation meant to stoke anticipation before the feature itself hit screens. These promotional reels are historically significant artifacts of the era's marketing machine, now scarce in their original 35mm form.

This cell preserves a moment from that trailer showing Ash Ketchum in the act of throwing a Poké Ball, flanked by his traveling companions Misty and Tracey Sketchit. Ash remains the franchise's central figure, and collectors prize cells featuring him in action poses tied to core gameplay gestures like a Poké Ball throw. Misty and Tracey's presence situates this within the show's established traveling trio dynamic of that season. As trailer material, the cell carries the promotional energy of anticipation, built to sell audiences on the adventure awaiting them in the full film.

Authentication Findings 8 checks

Consistent with a 35mm release trailer print of Pokémon: The Movie 2000, with analogue and Dolby Digital sound.

Gauge: Four perforations per frame appear along both edges, the 35mm layout, and the strip holds three frames, each cut off by a dark frame line.
Perforations: Four perforations per frame on the top and bottom edges, evenly spaced, rounded-rectangle shaped and cleanly punched, with no torn or missing holes seen.
Soundtrack: A variable-area optical track with two wavy white-on-black tracks runs beside the picture, and a speckled dot-matrix band along the lower edge sits between the perforations, consistent with Dolby Digital data blocks.
Edge print: Not visible in this capture
Base & colour: The base looks clear with a faint blue-cyan edge tint, and the dye image is vivid with saturated reds, blues and purples and no obvious fading or red shift.
Projection history: No scratches, splices or cue marks are seen at this size, only a bright reflection and glare on the panel at the top left.
Picture: Positive colour image; the first two frames run consecutively as one shot with a large Poké Ball, and the third frame is a different effects shot, consistent with a Pokémon trailer.
Era check: The optical track plus Dolby Digital data blocks on a vivid-dye 35mm base is consistent with a year-2000 release print or 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 000071259

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