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Moira Shearer

Moira Shearer

3 films · 194 frames · top-billed in 3 · 19481960

Born 17 January 1926 · Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, UK · died 31 January 2006

Moira Shearer, Lady Kennedy, was an internationally famous Scottish ballet dancer and actress. She is best known for her debut acting role in the 1948 film The Red Shoes, which first garnered her international attention.

How their films are shot

Measured across 194 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Moira takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 3 films we hold, 62% of their frames are night, 53% low key — the look of the work Moira takes.

Time of day

Night62%
Interior22%
Day15%

Lighting

Low key53%
Natural22%
High key19%
Chiaroscuro4%

Shot size

Medium33%
Wide27%
Closeup22%
Fullbody15%

Camera angle

Eye level79%
High angle15%
Low angle5%

Mood

Neutral69%
Tense17%
Ominous5%
Mysterious4%

Films in the library

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

Often with

Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.

A reference database for filmmakers

FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 194 frames from Moira Shearer's 3 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.