National Film Vault

FILM NOTES

Back to the Future Part II was released by Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment in November 1989, arriving as one of the most anticipated sequels of its decade. Directed by Robert Zemeckis, the film expanded the franchise into a bold vision of 2015 and the alternate 1985, cementing its place as a landmark of American science fiction cinema.

This cell, titled Marty and Doc, captures a sequence set within a darkened mechanical interior, with Marty McFly and Doc Brown present in the scene. The figure in the red and orange top leans over equipment across three nearly continuous frames, preserving a quiet working moment between the two central characters of the trilogy.