National Film Vault

FILM NOTES

Universal Pictures released Back to the Future Part II in November 1989, reuniting director Robert Zemeckis and producer Bob Gale for the highly anticipated follow-up to their 1985 phenomenon. Shooting back-to-back with Part III, the film pushed practical and optical effects to their limits while imagining 2015 with a wit that has kept it a touchstone of late-eighties cinema.

This three-frame cell captures Marty McFly and Doc Brown together in what reads as an interior workshop or garage setting, Marty leaning forward in a red top. The confirmed title Marty and Doc reflects exactly what the frames deliver: a quiet, close moment between the two central figures across three nearly identical, continuous images.