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 installment of George Lucas's prequel trilogy, released by 20th Century Fox and Lucasfilm. It expanded the saga's mythology, deepening the political unraveling of the Republic while advancing the romance between Anakin Skywalker and Padme Amidala. As a technical milestone, it pushed digital filmmaking further than any studio production before it, shot almost entirely on high-definition video. For fans of the Skywalker saga, this chapter marks the turning point where Anakin's path toward darkness truly begins to take shape.
This cell preserves a frame of Anakin Skywalker, the character whose arc defines the entire prequel trilogy and much of the saga beyond. Collectors seek out Anakin material specifically because he is the emotional and narrative center of this era, the young Jedi whose choices ripple across generations. A 35MM cell isolates a single fragment of the film's original photochemical print, a physical artifact from the actual strip run through theater projectors, making it a tangible piece of the movie's original theatrical presentation rather than a reproduction.
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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