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Elga Andersen

Elga Andersen

2 films · 103 frames · top-billed in 1 · 19581966

Born 2 February 1935 · Dortmund, Germany · died 7 December 1994

Elga Andersen (née Helga Hymen or Hymmen) (2 February 1935 – 7 December 1994) was a German actress and singer. She starred in more than one dozen French films in the 1950s and 1960s and also debuted as a recording artist in the 1950s.

How their films are shot

Measured across 103 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Elga takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 2 films we hold, 50% of their frames are day, 52% natural — the look of the work Elga takes.

Time of day

Day50%
Night45%
Interior5%

Lighting

Natural52%
Low key33%
High key8%
Chiaroscuro6%

Shot size

Medium47%
Closeup19%
Wide18%
Fullbody11%

Camera angle

Eye level70%
High angle18%
Low angle9%

Mood

Neutral66%
Tense19%
Lonely10%

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 103 frames from Elga Andersen's 2 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.