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 in 2002 by 20th Century Fox under Lucasfilm, Attack of the Clones marked George Lucas's return to the director's chair for the second prequel installment, expanding the saga's political intrigue and deepening the fall that would define Anakin Skywalker's arc. Arriving amid heavy anticipation and controversy over its CGI-heavy approach, the film remains a touchstone for collectors tracking the prequel trilogy's place in Star Wars history, bridging the innocence of The Phantom Menace with the tragedy of Revenge of the Sith.
This cell pairs Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker, the central mentor-apprentice duo whose bond anchors the prequel era before its eventual unraveling. Collectors prize this pairing for what it represents: loyalty, teaching, and the seeds of betrayal still dormant. A 35mm cell capturing these two together preserves a physical fragment of that relationship's screen presence, a tactile piece of the print that once ran through theater projectors, offering a direct link to the era when Obi-Wan and Anakin shared the frame as master and student navigating the Clone Wars' opening chapter.
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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