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 by 20th Century Fox in 2002, Attack of the Clones marked George Lucas's return to the director's chair for the middle chapter of the prequel trilogy. Coming three years after The Phantom Menace, it pushed the saga toward war, introducing the clone army and deepening the romance between Anakin and Padme. As a bridge film between innocence and empire, it carries weight for collectors tracing the franchise's turn toward tragedy, and its use of digital cinematography made it a technical milestone in the series' production history.
This 35mm cell bears the name Anakin Skywalker, the young Jedi whose arc defines the prequel era and whose eventual fall shadows every frame he appears in. Collectors seek him out specifically at this stage of the saga, when ambition and restlessness still read as youthful rather than sinister. A cell bearing a character's name alone, without further description, typically comes from footage where that figure is the clear focus of the frame, whether drawn from a key scene, a trailer moment, or an isolated character study preserved for its historical value within the print.
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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