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 return to directing after decades away, released by 20th Century Fox and Lucasfilm as the second chapter of the prequel trilogy. It expanded the saga's scope with sweeping digital effects and deepened the political unraveling of the Republic, while pushing the mythology toward its tragic center: the bond between master and apprentice fraying under pressure. For fans tracing the series' evolution, this film marks a turning point where spectacle and character tension began to fuse into the story everyone already knew was coming.
This cell preserves a moment shared by Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker, the defining pair of the prequel era whose mentorship anchors the entire trilogy's emotional arc. Collectors seek frames of these two together because their relationship carries the weight of what is to come, the trust and friction that will eventually fracture. A 35mm cell from this pairing captures a physical fragment of that shared screen time, a tangible piece of the print that once ran through a projector, connecting a viewer directly to the celluloid history of this specific chapter in their story.
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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