Sources: Wikidata. The record of the motion picture, not an assessment of this cell.
FILM NOTES
FILM NOTES
Released in the summer of 2000, Pokémon: The Movie 2000 arrived as Warner Bros. and Nintendo's follow-up to the franchise's explosive theatrical debut, riding the first wave of Pokémania through American theaters. Known in Japan as Mewtwo Strikes Back's sequel, The Power of One, it brought the core television cast to the big screen with an expanded story of legendary birds and a would-be collector threatening ecological balance. For a generation of young fans, this was event cinema, a Saturday morning show rendered large, and it remains a touchstone of the franchise's earliest, most culturally dominant years.
This cell brings together the full traveling party of the era: Ash and Pikachu as the inseparable center of the series, with Misty, Togepi, and Tracey rounding out the group dynamic that defined this particular stretch of the anime's run. A grouping of this kind, pulling the whole cast into a single frame of film, suggests a moment of assembly or companionship central to the story's momentum, the kind of ensemble beat collectors prize for representing the show's heart rather than a single action sequence or isolated character study.
Authentication Findings8 checks
Consistent with a 35mm Dolby Digital release print of Pokémon: The Movie 2000.
Gauge
35mm: four perforations per frame along both edges, and the strip holds three frames, seen side by side across the panel.
Perforations
Four per frame on both edges, evenly spaced and cleanly punched with rounded-rectangle holes and no visible tears or torn edges.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track runs beside the picture as two bands, with Dolby Digital data blocks visible in the gaps between the lower-edge perforations.
Edge print
Reads 'KODAK 2383' with a number and a small purple block, printed mirrored; the remaining characters are only partly legible.
Base & colour
The base has a pale blue tint along both edges, and the dye image looks saturated and neutral with no fading or colour shift seen.
Projection history
None seen at this size; the one dark ring on the middle frame is a camera reflection and is ignored.
Picture
Positive image; the three frames repeat the same shot with the same framing, so they run consecutively, and the animated style is consistent with the film on record.
Era check
Kodak 2383 print stock with an optical track plus Dolby Digital blocks is consistent with a release print from around 2000.
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 000071302
Original Film CaptureAs received
Photographed on the light panel at intake, before encapsulation — tap to open full size
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