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Chi McBride

Chi McBride

5 films · 449 frames · top-billed in 1 · 19962022

Born 23 September 1961 · Chicago, Illinois, USA

Kenneth "Chi" (pronounced "shy") McBride (born September 23, 1961) is an American actor. He starred as Emerson Cod on the ABC series Pushing Daisies, and on Fox's drama Human Target.

Description above from the Wikipedia article Chi McBride, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

How their films are shot

Measured across 449 frames from the 5 films we hold. This is the look of the work Chi takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 5 films we hold, 49% of their frames are day, 44% natural — the look of the work Chi takes.

Time of day

Day49%
Night41%
Interior9%

Lighting

Natural44%
Low key29%
High key24%

Shot size

Medium59%
Wide20%
Closeup13%
Fullbody5%

Camera angle

Eye level83%
Low angle8%
High angle8%

Mood

Neutral64%
Tense17%
Lonely7%

Films in the library

Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.

A reference database for filmmakers

FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 449 frames from Chi McBride's 5 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.