Sources: Wikidata. The record of the motion picture, not an assessment of this cell.
FILM NOTES
FILM NOTES
Pokémon: The Movie 2000 arrived from Warner Bros. and The Pokémon Company at the height of Pokémania, when the franchise's leap from handheld games to Saturday morning television to the multiplex seemed unstoppable. Following hot on the heels of the first feature, this sequel widened its scope into myth and prophecy, built around the legend of the three guardian birds and a chosen trainer. For American audiences it stands as a snapshot of the craze at its commercial peak, a theatrical event for a generation raised on the original 151.
This cell takes its name directly from the Shamouti Island Legend Festival, the ceremonial gathering at the heart of the story's folklore, where island dress marks the occasion as something ancient and communal rather than ordinary daily life. Festival outfit cells like this one are prized by collectors for connecting the film's mythic backbone to a single frame of costume and ritual, a quieter counterpart to the picture's more spectacular legendary bird imagery. As a 35mm film cell it preserves a physical fragment of that theatrical release, a tactile artifact from the Pokémon franchise's biggest-screen moment.
Authentication Findings8 checks
Consistent with a 35mm release print of Pokémon: The Movie 2000.
Gauge
35mm: four perforations per frame along both edges, and the strip holds three frames, with the picture frames sitting between the perforation rows and the soundtrack.
Perforations
Four per frame on both the top and bottom edges, evenly spaced and cleanly punched with rounded-corner rectangular holes; the lower edge alternates holes with speckled data blocks.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track runs along the lower edge beside the picture, and the gaps between the lower perforations hold speckled Dolby Digital data blocks.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture
Base & colour
Clear base with light blue edge borders and a neutral dye image; colours look saturated, with no visible fading or red shift.
Projection history
None seen at this size; no scratches, cue marks or splices are visible across the three frames.
Picture
Positive colour image; the three frames repeat one near-identical shot consecutively, and the animated look is consistent with the film on record.
Era check
The analogue optical track plus Dolby Digital blocks on a clear positive base fits a 2000-era 35mm release print of an animated feature.
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 000071316
Original Film CaptureAs received
Photographed on the light panel at intake, before encapsulation — tap to open full size
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