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 directing after a twenty-two year gap and pushed the prequel trilogy into darker territory, tracking the fracture of the Republic and the romance that would shape the saga's tragic arc. Shot largely on digital cameras, it stood as a technical milestone for blockbuster filmmaking and expanded the mythology surrounding the Jedi Order, the Clone Wars, and the man who would become Darth Vader.
This cell preserves a strip of 35mm film bearing Anakin Skywalker, the young Jedi apprentice at the emotional center of the film's unraveling. Collectors seek out frames tied to Anakin specifically because his arc anchors the entire prequel narrative, tracing the seeds of his eventual turn. A cell like this, drawn directly from release printing stock, offers a tactile fragment of that story, a physical remnant of the character's screen presence rather than a reproduction or promotional artifact.
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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