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 4Kids Entertainment at the height of Pokémania, the second theatrical feature built on the franchise's early momentum. Following the original movie's blockbuster run, this sequel brought the Legendary Birds and Lugia into the mythology, pairing the anime's television rhythms with a theatrical budget and a wider international release. For a generation of young collectors it stands alongside the first film as a cornerstone of the franchise's reach into American and European theaters, cementing Ash Ketchum and company as a global cinematic property rather than a television curiosity.
This cell draws its cast from the film's Shamouti Island arc, pairing Ash with Tracey Sketchit and the Island Elder and Shamouti Island Elder, the figures tasked with guiding the story's prophecy and island lore, alongside Tobias. The grouping suggests a scene rooted in exposition or ceremony, the kind of gathering where the film's mythic stakes are laid out through its elders rather than its trainers. For collectors, a cell naming this combination holds value as a window into the film's quieter narrative scaffolding, the moments that support the spectacle without being the spectacle itself.
Authentication Findings8 checks
Consistent with a 35mm release print of Pokémon: The Movie 2000, with Dolby Digital and optical tracks.
Gauge
35mm, with four perforations per frame along both edges; the strip holds three frames, the last one partly cropped by the panel edge.
Perforations
Four per frame on both edges, rectangular with rounded corners, evenly spaced and cleanly punched, with no tears or missing holes visible.
Soundtrack
A Dolby Digital data block sits in the gaps between the perforations on one edge, and two white variable-area optical tracks run beside the picture, with a dashed line at the edge.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture
Base & colour
The base is a clear light blue at the margins, and the dye image looks vivid and neutral with no obvious fading or colour shift.
Projection history
No lines, scratches, cue marks or splices seen at this size; the one dark oval on the middle-right frame is a camera reflection and is ignored.
Picture
Positive image; the three frames show the same shot almost unchanged, and the animated characters are consistent with the Pokémon film on record.
Era check
Dolby Digital blocks between the perforations plus a variable-area optical track fit a 2000 release print, and the stock is consistent with that period.
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 000071323
Original Film CaptureAs received
Photographed on the light panel at intake, before encapsulation — tap to open full size
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