Sources: Wikidata. The record of the motion picture, not an assessment of this cell.
FILM NOTES
Pokémon: The Movie 2000 arrived from Warner Bros. and Nintendo at the height of Pokémania, following the original Pokémon: The First Movie into theaters as the franchise's second theatrical release. Built around the Legendary Birds and the balance of the elements, it carried the saga beyond television into a global theatrical event, cementing Pokémon as a cinematic property rather than a passing craze. For fans who grew up with the series, this film represents the peak of the franchise's early cultural reach, a time when the characters first moved from small screens to the big screen.
This cell preserves a Magikarp Migration moment, a scene built around one of the franchise's most beloved jokes, the famously weak and humble fish Pokémon. Magikarp holds a strange affection among collectors precisely because of its reputation as an underdog, an animal defined by its struggle before transformation. A migration suggests scale and movement en masse, a detail fitting for a film that leaned into spectacle. Owning a frame from this sequence offers a tangible link to one of the series' gentlest, most charming recurring gags.
Authentication Findings8 checks
Consistent with a 35mm Dolby Digital release print of Pokémon: The Movie 2000.
Gauge
35mm layout with four perforations per frame on both edges; the strip holds three frames, each spanning four perforation pitches.
Perforations
Four per frame on both edges, rounded-rectangle punches, evenly spaced and cleanly cut along the whole strip, with no torn or missing holes.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track runs beside the picture, with Dolby Digital data blocks visible in the gaps between the lower-edge perforations and a dashed purple line above the optical track.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture
Base & colour
Clear base with a light blue tint at the edges; the dye image looks saturated and neutral with no obvious fading or red shift.
Projection history
No lines, scratches, cue marks or splices seen at this size; the ring on the middle frame is a camera reflection and is ignored.
Picture
Positive colour image; the three frames show one continuous shot with near-identical content, consistent with an animated film such as the one on record.
Era check
A Dolby Digital block pattern alongside an optical track fits a around-2000 35mm release print, which matches the film on record.
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 000071313
Original Film CaptureAs received
Photographed on the light panel at intake, before encapsulation — tap to open full size
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