National Film Vault

FILM NOTES

Back to the Future Part II was released by Universal Pictures in November 1989, directed by Robert Zemeckis and produced by Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment. A direct continuation of the 1985 original, the film took audiences to the then-distant year 2015 and into an alternate 1985, cementing the trilogy's place as one of Hollywood's most ambitious science fiction comedies. Shot on 35mm, it remains a landmark of practical effects and production design from the era.

This cell, titled Marty McFly, captures three consecutive frames from a single unbroken shot. Marty McFly, wearing his familiar plaid shirt, leans over industrial machinery in what reads as a workshop environment, while Dr. Emmett Brown is visible behind him in a yellow-orange jacket. The sequence preserves the natural rhythm of the scene across all three frames.