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
Released by Lucasfilm and 20th Century Fox in 2002, Attack of the Clones marked George Lucas's return to the director's chair for the prequel trilogy's second installment. Arriving three years after The Phantom Menace, it pushed digital filmmaking further into the mainstream, being one of the first major studio features shot entirely on high-definition video. The film deepened the saga's mythology, tracing the Republic's slide toward civil war and the political maneuvering that would give rise to the Empire.
This cell centers on Padmé Amidala and Anakin Skywalker, the pairing at the heart of the saga's central romance. Padmé, senator and former queen, and Anakin, the apprentice whose path bends toward darkness, anchor the emotional throughline of the prequels. Collectors seek frames of these two together for what they represent: the beginning of a bond that shapes the rest of the trilogy's tragedy. A 35mm cell bearing both names preserves a physical fragment of that unfolding relationship, a tangible sliver of the print that once ran through theater projectors.
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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