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 from Lucasfilm and 20th Century Fox, the second chapter in the prequel trilogy George Lucas built to bridge the original saga's mythic gap. It marked a technical turning point, shot almost entirely on digital cameras, and it deepened the political and personal unraveling that would carry the saga toward Anakin Skywalker's fall. For longtime fans, it holds the weight of origin: the courtship that seeds the Empire's tragedy.
This 35MM cell preserves a frame of Anakin and Padmé together, the central pairing whose romance drives the film's emotional arc and sets up the galaxy's future heartbreak. Collectors seek these two names paired because their relationship is the hinge of the entire prequel era, the human story beneath the larger war. A cell like this, drawn straight from release printing stock, offers a tangible sliver of that narrative thread, a physical remnant of the reel as it played in theaters in 2002.
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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