National Film Vault

FILM NOTES

Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment released Back to the Future Part II in November 1989, reuniting director Robert Zemeckis and writer Bob Gale for a sequel that pushed the original's time-travel premise into ambitious new territory. Filming on Parts II and III proceeded simultaneously, and the production became a landmark of late-1980s blockbuster filmmaking, its vision of 2015 embedding itself permanently in popular culture.

This cell captures the Cafe 80s confrontation sequence from the Hill Valley 2015 segment, presenting three sequential frames from a single continuous shot. Marty McFly faces down Griff Tannen and his gang — Spike, Data, and Whitey — while Marty McFly Jr. is also present in the scene. Michael J. Fox, Thomas F. Wilson, Darlene Vogel, Ricky Dean Logan, and Jason Scott Lee are all represented across these frames.