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's banner. It expanded the saga's mythology by tracing the Republic's slide toward war and the roots of the Empire, while pushing digital filmmaking further than any prior entry. As a piece of blockbuster history it marks Lucas working almost entirely within a virtual production pipeline, a technical milestone as much as a narrative one, and it remains a key reference point for how the Star Wars universe was expanded on screen.
This cell centers on Anakin Skywalker and Padmé Amidala, the pairing whose romance forms the emotional spine of the film and sets in motion consequences that ripple through the entire saga. Collectors seek these two together because their relationship is the personal counterpart to the galaxy-spanning politics, a human thread running beneath the Clone Wars' outbreak. A 35mm cell preserves an actual frame excised from a theatrical print, a tactile link to projection history rather than a reproduction, making it a physical artifact of the moment this pairing was committed to film.
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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