FrameThrower · Actors · Jacques Tati
Jacques Tati
2 films · 124 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1958–1967
Born 9 October 1907 · Le Pecq, Yvelines, France · died 4 November 1982
Jacques Tati was a French filmmaker, working both as a comedic actor and director. In a poll conducted by Entertainment Weekly of the Greatest Movie Directors Tati was voted the 46th greatest of all time. With only six feature-length films to his credit as director, he directed fewer films than any other director on this list of 50.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 2 films · 124 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1958–1967
- Honorary César1977
- Jury Prize1958
- Louis Delluc Prize1953
How their films are shot
Measured across 124 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Jacques 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, 72% of their frames are day, 48% natural — the look of the work Jacques takes.
Time of day
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Shot size
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Mood
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 124 frames from Jacques Tati'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.