Named in the title of 3 peer-reviewed works
Examples
La Force est avec George! Star Wars : Episode II — Attack of the Clones Star Wars : Episode II — Attack of the Clones — Ciné-Bulles : Le cinéma d’auteur avant tout, 2002
Star Wars Episode II Attack of the Clones (Motion picture) — Sight & sound/Sight and sound, 2002
La Force est avec George! / Star Wars : Episode II — Attack of the Clones — Ciné-Bulles : Le cinéma d’auteur avant tout, 2002
Sources: Wikidata · OpenAlex · Library of Congress. The record of the motion picture, not an assessment of this cell.
FILM NOTES
Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones arrived in 2002 as George Lucas's continuation of the prequel trilogy under Lucasfilm and 20th Century Fox, bridging the fall of the Old Republic with the rise of the Empire. Building on the visual ambition of The Phantom Menace, it pushed digital filmmaking further, shooting almost entirely on high-definition video and expanding the saga's political and romantic threads. It remains a touchstone for collectors tracing the franchise's technical evolution and the deepening of its central tragedy, the courtship of Anakin Skywalker and Padmé Amidala.
This 35MM cell preserves a frame of Padmé Amidala herself, the Naboo senator whose diplomacy and quiet resolve anchor the film's political intrigue. As one of the saga's defining women, portrayed by Natalie Portman, she draws steady collector interest across formats and eras. A cell bearing only her name, without added context, represents a pure character strip, isolating her presence within the reel rather than a specific scene, making it a straightforward artifact of her screen identity within Episode II.
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.
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