Pokémon: The Movie 2000 arrived in theaters courtesy of Warner Bros. and Nintendo at the height of Pokémania, a follow-up to the franchise's blockbuster debut feature. Built to keep the craze alive through a second summer, it paired theatrical spectacle with a sprawling merchandising push that defined kids' entertainment marketing of the period. The film's promotional campaign leaned heavily on cross-media tie-ins, with print, television, and early internet advertising all pointing audiences toward a central hub for the release.
This cell preserves a trailer promoting the film, specifically the moment its companion website address appears on screen. A www title card like this one is a time capsule of its own kind, documenting how studios were beginning to fold internet promotion into traditional theatrical marketing at the turn of the millennium. For collectors of Pokémon ephemera and early web-era movie promotion alike, this piece sits at the intersection of two collecting interests, a small but genuine artifact of how a cartoon phenomenon reached beyond the screen into the browser.
Authentication Findings8 checks
Consistent with a 35mm release print of the Pokémon: The Movie 2000 trailer.
Gauge
35mm: four perforations per frame along both edges, and the strip holds three frames.
Perforations
Four per frame on both edges, evenly spaced and cleanly punched, with rounded-rectangle holes of consistent shape; no torn or missing perforations seen.
Soundtrack
A two-track 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
Clear base with a pale blue tint along both edges; the dye image reads neutral, with black and saturated blue and yellow, and no visible fading.
Projection history
Fine white speckling across the dark picture area, with a few faint vertical scratch lines; no splices or cue marks seen.
Picture
Positive image, three consecutive frames of one repeated shot, and the www.p2kthemovie.com web address and Pokémon card backs match the Pokémon: The Movie 2000 trailer.
Era check
Consistent with a 2000-era release print, since a variable-area optical track with Dolby Digital data between the perforations was standard for theatrical prints 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 000071293
Original Film CaptureAs received
Photographed on the light panel at intake, before encapsulation — tap to open full size
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