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
Attack of the Clones arrived in 2002 as the second chapter of George Lucas's prequel trilogy, released by 20th Century Fox under Lucasfilm. It carried immense weight as the film tasked with deepening the saga's central romance and setting the political machinery of the Republic's collapse into motion. Shot partly on early digital cinema formats alongside traditional 35mm, it marked a transitional moment in blockbuster filmmaking, bridging practical and digital eras while expanding the mythology that would culminate in Anakin Skywalker's fall.
This cell preserves a strip from the storyline centered on Anakin and Padmé, the pairing whose courtship forms the emotional spine of the film. Their relationship is the narrative engine driving Anakin toward the choices that define the saga, making any surviving footage of the two together a natural focal point for collectors tracing character arcs across the trilogy. A 35mm cell of this pairing represents a physical fragment of that unfolding story, tying directly into the romance that reshapes the galaxy's future.
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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